TIME FOR A LITTLE R&R - FINALLY

IT’S OVER… STUDIO IS FINALLY OVER.  IM FINISHED FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH!!!!  LET THE PARTYING BEGIN – OH WAIT… ITS STARTED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO.  THIS IS PROBABLY WHY I DIDN’T HAVE MY THESIS DOCUMENT FINISHED ON TIME.  HAHA!

Huge sigh of relief…

Ok… so what’s been going on???  Not much really.  This past Thursday night was my Christmas party at work.  OH SO NICE.  They reserved 2 rooms for us at the Charlotte Country Club on the same night the new UNCC Chancellor was being inaugurated.  There were butt-loads of people there.

The CCC is really nice.  My friend Gretchen (oh my gosh I love you so much gurl!!!) was one of our servers, so I introduced her to all the important people last night.  Gretchen is one of the very few studio people whom I’ve remained friends with since freshman year.  Most people have a way of getting on my nerves after a while and … yea well, I get bored easily by stupid people.

After we conversed for several hours it was finally dinner time.  YUMMY!  I had a filet mignon, with potatoes and asparagus.  The salad there was phenomenal – or maybe I was just drunk and hungry.  HAHA!  And for desert they had a nice chocolate sorbet with strawberries.  I think over the course of the evening I had about 10 glasses of wine – so I was pretty relaxed and good to go.  

Joddy, one of the owners took a liking to the drunken Jason.  LOL!   It was great.  At one point after dinner he pulled me over to the side and he and Victor ganged up on me on all the reasons that I should go to New York.  I must say they had very convincing arguments – and promised me a position on my return to the Queen City.

The awards ceremony was delightful.  HAHA!  Bill, one of our temporary marketing directors put together what were called the “Bobby” awards in which I received “The Ralph Lauren Dress for Success Award.”  On acceptance of the interview at JPA, I called Tyke and asked him if this would be a formal meeting or relaxed.  He said very relaxed, thus, I wore my sandals.  BIG MISTAKE.  

Jason Gentry, who showed up for his job interview wearing jeans and sandals, thereby proving that if you look like a slob, you’re going to wind up working at a place like Jenkins-Peer.

It was definitely worth it however – because my award got a standing ovation and the biggest laughs.  I LOVE BEING LOVED.  

Once they were trying to kick us out Joddy puts his arm around my neck and proceeds to give me a tour of the place.  I’ve been there before, but it was several years ago, and after JPA had done the remodel and addition.  So we go downstairs flipping on all the lights being loud and very obnoxious and Joddy is showing me around… lol… turn around and there’s two cops starring at us.  They then saw it was Joddy and all was cool.  The surprising thing was… there wasn’t a single one of us that wasn’t totally shit-faced… and they knew we were driving home… yet nothing was said.  LOL.

Oh, and I must say I socialized with every single person there – and of those conversations – the one with the wives was the best.  I guess I truly am gay – I love women gossip.  It’s amazing what you can find out.

From there we all left and I called my Willster who expressed concern about my driving under the influence.  IM SORRY.  I really shouldn’t have done that, I know.  But the fact that you cared enough to say that to me… I’m totally falling for you!

Will was having a party himself at his lake house which I hate that I missed.  I wanted to meet all of his friends and spend as much possible time with him over break as I can.  I don’t know that I’ve ever looked so forward to seeing one individual in my life.  And its not because were always going and doing things – I just truly value the time that we spend together.  It’s simple and real – perfect.

After I hung up with Will I called my mommy.  HAHA!!!  I told her of the night’s festivities and then she made me stay on the phone with her till I got home.  Apparently I talk rather loud when intoxicated.  But my mom is awesome!  Love her to death.  

So now that studio is over I have three things on my list of stuff to accomplish over break…

1. SLEEP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE


2. WORK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

And most importantly

1. SPEND AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE WITH WILL

Ahh… this is going to be a great Christmas break… I can just feel it.