{"id":317,"date":"2006-04-19T22:35:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T22:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2006-04-19T22:35:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T22:35:29","slug":"when-it-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/317","title":{"rendered":"When it rains"},"content":{"rendered":"

As they say, “When it rains, it pours.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Today has been a stellar day. I’m tired, but it’s an extremely good tired, and things are starting to look up. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I had my interviews today with ThoughtWorks<\/a>, 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. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

In another email, I found out that I’ve been bumped to “Active Duty” with regarts to my CHI 2006<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is THE day. Big deal day. It ain’t over ’til the fat lady… day. It’s capstone presentation day.<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n

Anyway, this long long day must come to an end. I’m off to bed. Big smiles all ’round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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