{"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":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/317","title":{"rendered":"When it rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they say, <em>&#8220;When it rains, it pours.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today has been a stellar day. I&#8217;m tired, but it&#8217;s an extremely good tired, and things are starting to look up. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;anyway, I don&#8217;t think it caused too much trouble, likely because the people at the company are cool.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, I had my interviews today with <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtworks.com\">ThoughtWorks<\/a>, which was actually kind of fun. I&#8217;m pretty comfortable in interview situations, I have found, and have a somewhat &#8220;take it or leave it&#8221; approach. If the people like me, then that&#8217;s great, but if they don&#8217;t, I probably wouldn&#8217;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&#8217;m pretty well suited to the type of work I&#8217;d do there. So yeah, I&#8217;ll let you know when I get more info&#8230;who knows&#8230;there may be other job situations on the horizon as well. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I came home tonight from Chicago to a quite full inbox, filled mostly with great news. First, this program I&#8217;ve been working on for my <a href=\"http:\/\/lair.indiana.edu\/courses\/index.html\">User Interface Design<\/a> class is coming along swimmingly. My teammate uploaded the latest version, so I downloaded and tested it&#8230;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&#8217;s looking good thus far.<\/p>\n<p>In another email, I found out that I&#8217;ve been bumped to &#8220;Active Duty&#8221; with regarts to my <a href=\"http:\/\/chi2006.org\">CHI 2006<\/a> Student Volunteer status. That means I don&#8217;t have to pay $450 to get in to the conference. Perfect timing&#8230;I was really banking on this, and got lucky. I&#8217;m really pumped.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is THE day. Big deal day. It ain&#8217;t over &#8217;til the fat lady&#8230; day. <strong>It&#8217;s capstone presentation day.<\/strong> I&#8217;m ready. So ready. Ready to rock, ready to roll. In the morning I&#8217;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&#8217;re in the area. Hopefully we&#8217;ll get it on video, so I can spread my words across the internets. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this long long day must come to an end. I&#8217;m off to bed. Big smiles all &#8217;round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they say, &#8220;When it rains, it pours.&#8221; Today has been a stellar day. I&#8217;m tired, but it&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}