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April 19, 2006
When it rains
As they say, "When it rains, it pours."
Today has been a stellar day. I'm tired, but it's an extremely good tired, and things are starting to look up.
First, a question: Who on earth has the brilliant foresight to put half neked pictures of himself on his blog only a few days before a big, important job interview? Me, of course. Great idea that was...anyway, I don't think it caused too much trouble, likely because the people at the company are cool.
Speaking of which, I had my interviews today with ThoughtWorks, which was actually kind of fun. I'm pretty comfortable in interview situations, I have found, and have a somewhat "take it or leave it" approach. If the people like me, then that's great, but if they don't, I probably wouldn't enjoy working there anyway, so I just go ahead and act like myself. The people I spoke with were brilliant and fun, and I think I'm pretty well suited to the type of work I'd do there. So yeah, I'll let you know when I get more info...who knows...there may be other job situations on the horizon as well. ;-)
I came home tonight from Chicago to a quite full inbox, filled mostly with great news. First, this program I've been working on for my User Interface Design class is coming along swimmingly. My teammate uploaded the latest version, so I downloaded and tested it...AND IT LOOKS AMAZING! I am so impressed. We should pat ourselves on the back. I still have some more work to do on it from my end of the bargain, but it's looking good thus far.
In another email, I found out that I've been bumped to "Active Duty" with regarts to my CHI 2006 Student Volunteer status. That means I don't have to pay $450 to get in to the conference. Perfect timing...I was really banking on this, and got lucky. I'm really pumped.
Tomorrow is THE day. Big deal day. It ain't over 'til the fat lady... day. It's capstone presentation day. I'm ready. So ready. Ready to rock, ready to roll. In the morning I'll go for a run, then finish up my capstone website, then do a practice run through. My presentation is from 4:30-5 in Informatics 107, if you're in the area. Hopefully we'll get it on video, so I can spread my words across the internets.
Anyway, this long long day must come to an end. I'm off to bed. Big smiles all 'round.
Posted at April 19, 2006 10:35 PM