A day in the life of an intern: How to stay smiling all day...

First of all, you should already be smiling like crazy...it's summer for crying out loud. Nonetheless, while working, I can tend to just turn into a robot when I have a long task to do. How do I keep myself energized and in a ridiculously happy mental state.

1. I work for Playboy...enough said.
2. Clips like these of course...

One of my co-workers had sent me these 2 videos today and I was nearly in tears (don't worry, they are only 1 minute each):

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News Anchors cracking on a model who busted her ass on the runway:

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Reptile freaks out news anchor:

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Finals Are Over!!!! Let the Good Times Roll!!!!

I know...I was a ghost for the past week or so. Truth be told, I've been slacking with school and was in dire need of stepping my game up to make it alive through the semester.

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Valuable Lesson of Interning: If you are still in school, one of the most important things is to balance your success between work and school. Especially if you are working with a renown company, it is so vital that you don't get too thirsty for the limelight.

My Confession: In all honesty, I got so excited working with Playboy and after doing a couple things right, I lost focus of school. Don't get me wrong, I think school is ridiculous at some points because the more that I work with a company, the more that I realize school is a business. After not giving a shit for the semester, I now have an A-, B- and B. I'm pretty concerned that I may have failed 2 of my classes (Western Economical Development in US History & a Calculus course emphasizing Business Applications) that I am awaiting grades for, but I don't really know. I can blame my uncertainty on my teachers and how hard they are to understand, but the truth is that it's my own fault. I've had teachers that were tough to understand before and always made it through. Only time will tell.

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Being back to work after finals was a breath of fresh air and my first day back definitely put a smile on my face. How could it now when I come back to a cube looking like this:
The Mystery: Who the hell did it!? I am 6'4", so whoever did it was tall as hell! My first guess was Chris, so to get him back...I made a doorway of cups to get into his cube:
I would later find out that it definitely was not him. Not only that, but Chris is a nice guy to the sense that you instantly feel bad for doing things to him, things like filling the opening of his cube with Playboy cups.

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The week was an exhausting one. I stayed up till like 4 a.m. every night studying mostly the wrong material and would miss a great Rock the Rabbit event. On top of that, I did something foolish and selfish with a mailing at work. I need to get my act together and with the summer starting, it couldn't be a better time for me to really step my game up.

Another Valuable Lesson When Interning: ALWAYS keep your eye on the ball. It's important that you always stay focussed on things you're doing and always try to avoid mixing business with pleasure and business with your personal life. Believe me when I say it sounds easier than it is.

Witness the Rise of Charlie at the Yankee Game!!!

What a freakin day yesterday was! Not only did I get a lot accomplished at work and have no class on what was supposed to be the last day of classes, but I met some new people at work that I haven't had the privilege to work with yet.

Short Quest Meeting the Fashion Director: Late in the work day, I went to make myself some popcorn in the staff kitchen. Usually when I do this, I make like 6 cups of extra popcorn to give to whoever would want some. One of the people who asked for popcorn was the Global Fashion Director at Playboy. He was a really nice guy and said down the line he could use me as a model. As cool as that was to hear, I dished out more popcorn and headed back to my cube.

The Yankee Game: While finishing up working on raising awareness of our upcoming June issue, an angel came to my cube, haha. One of the personnel in the department I work in offered myself and Chris Yankee tickets, because they weren't going to be able to attend the game. My mind and mouth took over and said the word "of course" immediately. One hour later, I was in the 10th row at Yankee Stadium!



I love sports, so this was Christmas come early for me! It was a pretty sweet game and I wound up bringing 3 available friends. Initially, I planned on going with Chris and we'd end up taking one other person each, but Chris was pretty tired and had a lot to do.

The game was sweet, tickets were amazing, weather was perfect and the crowd around us was awesome!!! I couldn't have asked for more.

Check out the video I made:

Evolving Into More of an Asshole...

Cinco De Mayo was interesting to say the least. Nothing major, just wings and beer with some friends. While getting gas, I struck up a conversation with some spanish girl (my favorite). She looked sooo much like the girl from the first Fast and Furious.

Jordana Brewster:
It was in conversing with this stuck up bitch that I've realized I'm evolving into more of an asshole. Believe me when I say that this is something I have desperately needed. I'm charming and charismatic as fuck, but my kindness is ALWAYS my weakness. One gaping flaw of mine is that I tend to be too nice to the wrong people and in turn, I always manage to get taken advantage of...whether it be for money (which I don't have much of), time, or emotions.

The conversation went a little something like this:

Charlie: That shirt looks amazing!
Bitch: Thanks, I like it a lot too. My boyfriend got it for me.
Charlie: What do you mean? I meant the shirt on the billboard.
Bitch: Oh my god! That is so embarassing...
Charlie: Haha, I know...if it makes you feel better, you can make fun of me or we can talk about how embarrassing it is for me to be talking to a girl with a $60,000 car, while mine cost me $5,500.
Bitch: Is that why your car was making all that noise?
Charlie: Oh no, that's the beat-boxing feature. My car beat boxes on it's own.
Bitch: Haha. That was cute. If your car was nicer, that would have earned you my number.
Charlie: Your number is 10...because thats how many minutes you've been pretending to pump gas and waiting to say something like you just did. My number is 1...because my tank is full and thats how many minutes until I leave you to your materialistic self. Tell your parents they have a pretty nice car.

How the fuck did I magically acquire a monster pair of testicles? I don't fucking know. I'll blame it on my recent obsession with Nip/Tuck and the personality of one of the shows stars Christian Troy (played by Julian McMahon).That girl had it coming. Point is: sometimes it's better for us to replace our hearts with our spine.

The old me would have ate up her comments and then went home to research new cars for two hours. BUT, the new "nice guy gone asshole" me didn't take shit because fuck it...why should I from a spoiled girl like that?

I have to get on the bus for work in an hour and a half, so I better get going. Cheers!!!

This summer is going to be one for the record books...

Cinco De Mayooooo!!!!!! Bring on the Tequila and Corona!!!

Wellllllllllllll...it's Cinco De Mayo!!! As I gather myself on the last day of classes, I think of how I can celebrate tonight's festivities without involving any form of studying for finals. So as I plan out how to make this Cinco De Mayo one to remember, I ask myself...what would Hef do?

I remember at this point last year I was watching the De La Hoya vs. Mayweather fight with some friends. As nice as it was drowning myself in Cuervo and Corona, I needed to step my game up.

To celebrate tonights fiesta, we picked up some wings from Hooters. I'll never forget the Hooters girls from tonight. Personally, I usually hardly check out the girls when I go to Hooters. I guess that it's just not really my thing to watch girls flirt with ninety year old guys and truck drivers. Furthermore, the girls were ridiculously hot and we ordered a few Coronas while waiting for our order, not only did they hook us up with the coolest and biggest bottles ever, but they sat and drank with us for awhile.

Considering that today is a Monday, I will be very limited as to my options. Nonetheless, it is off to a really really good start. Words can't say how much I miss Mexico on days like this.

Cheers, caballeros!!!