the world of allie

oh so this has been the weirdest week EVER with some adventure along the way.....

monday

i signed up for this workshop that was taking place in downtown rochester. so i print out directions from mapquest because i'm still not familar with the area and i have my friend driving with me to help me read the directions. we are on 490, with all the crazy trafic, and i get off for the inner loop and what do you know... i get lost!! so i was driving around rochester for like 20 minutes trying to find main street. luckily i found it and made it in time for dinner. (more weird stuff happened later that night but i shouldn't post it on the internet ;-)

tuesday

So it's the first day of the two day workshop. i wake up at 6 am, get on the road at 7.. discover that the sun will be in my eyes while navigating the scary route on 490. not being able to see the signs i find my way to the workshop. now by 10 am i have the dear in headlight look. i'm completly overwhelmed of what was going on. i had no idea what i was signed up for and at noon i had the next year planned out if i decided to take what was going on seriously. it was a workshop in starting your own buisness. now that is all well and good but i'm only 20 years old.. i haven't even had my first co-op yet, and i def can't go to the bar to celebrate with my partners. the rest of the day passed quickly and i am excited but it's just a "wow" experience. the workshop was being held in the Powers building on state and main in the heart of downtown rochester. it was such a beautiful building. marble floors, arched ceilings, a grand stair case, an atrium that reaches the top of the building. i was in this office and i was looking out to the building across the way, and i could see the reflection in the other buildings windows. it was an amazing sight. i also got to walk around downtown rochester a bit... my friend and i wandered to the democrate and chronical building and got a little history lesson in printing.

now i'm exhausted from the day (which was a little hard to believe that i was doing this workshop). i went to bed around like 10 pm. at 11 my roomate was knocking on the door. i peered out and she was sitting at the top of the stairs, she asked me if i called maintence. i told her that a couple weeks i asked about getting the stopper in the tub fixed. so i went back to bed....

wednesday

i wake up and i get ready for school. i'm leaving the house and i go to lock the door and my key doesn't fit in the lock! i thought that i was insane, so i'm turning the key, flipping it over, but nothing is working. i go upstairs and i knock on my roomates door and i asked her what was up. she said that maintenece let themselves in at 11 pm last night because some girl called them about an electrical problem. she listened to the message and it was not one of us.. it was some girl with a heavy indian like accent. so i'm thinking to myself that i was sleeping in my underwear and teeshir in my own house and some guys walked in to fix something in thebath room... and that if no one was home besides me or no one was awake,.. i could have gotten up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and i would have found guys in there working on the tub!!!! (or any other horrible senarios) they came back this afternoon and they fixed the lock, and the tub, so that is all taken care of.. but it was just wierd.....