Me vs. Wild

This is my life.

Well at least it has been for the last 4 days.

How did this happen?

How did I get myself into a career that involves me spending a week learning about Cloud Computing and Major Market Trends?!?

Luckily I am a nerd and I love it BUT it isn't helping me lose any freaking weight!! This career revolves around wining and dining and you never want to be the one not participating. SEE! IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!

Anyways, to make things a little more fun for us, my fearless leader decided to take us out to Dave & Busters and make us do a team building exercise. Oye. Sounds dreadful right? WRONG! Ok, everyone hated it but true to form, I lovvvved it! It was a survivor exercise. The scenario was that my team's helicopter crashed in the middle of a blizzard on Mt. Rainer and they gave us a list of 12 things that we had on board, and had to list them in order of importance.

So I should explain that I am the only woman on my NY/NJ team and I am the youngest by about 15 years. They come to me for celebrity gossip, fashion help, advice about their teenagers and to talk about trashy tv... not exactly the most important topics. However, I explained to them that I watch A TON of "SurviorMan", "I Shouldn't Be Alive" and "Man vs. Wild". If that doesnt make me practically a survivor expert, then what does? Oh and hellllllllo, I've read The Hunger Games twice, geeze. "Trust me guys, I will save us and get us off this mountain!" I proudly announced. But nooooo, lets not take Marissa's advice, lets take the advice of the 2 people that live on the Upper West Side. "Um guys, navigating the NYC subway system in the concrete jungle doesn't count. YOU ARE GOING TO KILL US!!!"

So we did our individual ranking of the 12 objects and then we worked as a team and had to do a team ranking. Like I said, no one listened to me and none of my rankings matched up. Then my fearless leader announced the correct rankings and guess what!! I got every single one correct on my individual ranking!!!!!!! My team of course didn't get any correct. We died.

So this week I was suppose to learn about cloud computing and major market trends, but the one thing I really learned was that if I ever get stuck in the mountains with my team, I am going to kill them all and save myself because they really just drag me down. Don't worry, I will be humane about it. Kill them in their sleep or something?

I think its fair to say that "survivor skills" and "first aid" have been added to the list of "Things We Go To Marissa For" :-)

Bad news though, I ate SHIT all week. Every bite was d'lish and I enjoyed every moment. Back to reality tomorrow and back to getting my ass kicked by my PT. She is going to be SOOOOO mad at me. I'll be shaking in my running shoes on Monday morning.