Today's intern titles are:

Motorcycle Registration Specialist
Insurance Official
DMV Correspondent
Lunch-Deliverer
and Accountant.

Pretty accomplished day I'd say, it went something like this:
Work at 9am
DMV to surrender license plates by 930
Paperwork for vanity plates and re-registration
Insurance company to change policy and holders
Begin organizing billing paperwork
DMV to re-register vehicle, and be turned down for vanity plates (aka after-hours effort to be put in tonight online)
End of the month billing completed

after all that, I ended up swinging by the apartment to get my leftovers from dinner the other night for lunch today. The front door was unlocked, which was strange, and there I found Grandpa laying on the couch with the vacuum sprawled on the living room floor. I was more than concerned. And then I accidentally startled him and woke him up. But, to make up for it, I got him KFC for lunch.

From there, I had to go to the post office to drop off work, and was nearly in car accidents twice between there and home. Apparently right-turn-only lanes that end as soon as the turn didn't matter to this dbag, as he then, without signal, veered continued to drive straight (in the lane I was properly in) a second away from my car and came millimeters away from sideswiping me.

On the way home from the post office, I turned onto the highway from Chenango Bridge towards Port Dickinson. The entrance to the highway is a length of single-lane that abruptly merges into the continuing double-lanes, and it is common courtesy (and common sense) that if you are already on the highway, you move to the far left lane to avoid collision. Apparently the student driver's instructer didn't feel like telling them that as they never moved for me and nearly sent me into the wall along the shoulder.

I had choice words for all the above dbag drivers, to say the very least.

Interninggg

Computer screen and paperwork for 3 1/2 hours, then post office errands for another half hour. Yay internship, at least it's keeping me busy & I now know more about color correcting than I expected to learn.

Serious Intern Work

It's about time. Today I started the major photo editing section - 'Verify Crop & Correct.' It's not that it's terribly hard, but I certainly can't see colors properly. I need to crop and color correct the individual photos one by one by comparing their color and density to a photo in the program that is color corrected to what the picture needs to look like on the screen to print looking perfect. Needless to say, I am excellent at color correcting and having the picture on the screen be what prints when at school, but these images on the screen are horribly blue-magenta and need to be darkened far more than you'd expect. I'm used to making my pictures too dark and too magenta, but this is new - my pictures today printed yellow-green and fway too light, mostly because I color corrected them to look right on the screen and had issues matching the blue-magenta huge I had to aim for.

Only day 1, I'll get better, and the pictures weren't useless. The people who buy them can't tell the difference like a photo kid, they just aren't as crisp as I'd want them.

Data Entry

More data entry this past Wednesday and Thursday, nothing exciting to speak of yet. I'm set up to learn the other half of the work (the actual photo verify/crop/correct/print) this week, hopefully I won't screw it up too bad right away.

In other news, Miss Delaney is fixed!! Only needed a new muffler/tailpipe, thank goodness I didn't need an entire new exhaust system. She barely hums and runs like a dream now, I couldn't be happier.

In other other news, Kyle's apartment is nearly done. Today we're (hopefully) getting the bedroom carpet and laying it, moving out the ghetto working-tv-on-top-of-the-broken-tv situation to the curb, and painting the kitchen. All that's left after that is building a small wall in the bathroom and a shower out of the clawfoot tub.

In lastly other other news, Jake's coming! I've missed my British kiddo like mad. Too bad I have to wait over a month to see him, but it's worth it. He'll be crashing at the apartment with GracieLove and Willhem. July can't come soon enough.. but at the same time, I'm loving this summer laziness for now.

Sorry I haven't posted pictures at all; I'll upload pre-renovation apartment pictures in a few.

Welcome to Cycle Shots, LLC

Sunday I coded envelopes for 9 hours. So much fun. I love writing numbers all day, while dealing with bitchy women who enjoy talking about the photographers as if we weren't there. Small children screaming, parents who don't know how to control their 6 year olds, and coaches who don't know who's on their own team. I can't imagine a more fun way to spend my weekend. Take the annoying with the sweet I suppose.

Today instead, I spent 8-noon staring at a computer screen doing data entry. I type up the numbers that I, or someone else, coded on the envelopes, then use a number code to determine what the customers ordered, and then add the Trading Card information as necessary. I use the DRUMS program, which does bulk data entry far easier and faster than any program used before; it combines the data entry with the TC info in one program, as well as holds all changes made and stores all of the information within the program, rather than in individual files in the hard drive. It would be "fun" if it wasn't so tedious.

Technically I don't mind data entry, I find it relatively calming. I'm just looking forward to learning the actual job - I am taking in a lot of "how to deal with dbags and still look professional when running your own business" though, which is obviously important, as there are a lot of dbags with money out there. I look forward to taking their money.