Guess it’s been a while. Another month in my bad archive code is simply going to choke and die. i should probably fix it so that it doesn’t. meh.
Where do i begin? it’s been 2 months. I haven’t touched the campaign code in a month, i’m co-leading a freshman guy’s community group with brandon harvill which is humbling in a way that i’m not sure i’ve ever been humbled. Webteam is starting to pick up again. The job is awesome because for ten hours a week i don’t have to worry about anything else except work. ACM has lightened up, now that most of the company nights are done with. Discipleship continues with John, but it has a different feel to it. My time feels like the Texas weather, i go from being extremely busy tuesday through friday to very free saturday through monday. Basically i have a three day weekend every week. Next year i will actually have one. My schedule for spring 2006. CS 345 is actually going to be MW 6:30-8 but as of this writing that hasn’t been reflected on the course schedule.
Today it got cold again and this time around there’s a certain finality to it. Summer is over. Sure there’s supposed to be a high of 86 on Friday, but somehow that feels like heat intruding on cold than the other way around. I always joke that it’s been so hot because God wants to give me a break since i was in Seattle all summer, which is kinda funny since in 2 weeks i’m going back.
I’ll be flying out to a little software company in east Seattle, little town called Redmond. Maybe a few of you have heard of them, Microsoft? So basically i may have a tough decision to make. Conceivably in 2.5 weeks i could have 2 offers in Seattle, both for way more money than i could possibly make in Austin (or anywhere else for that matter), and at that time i will have nothing in Austin. National Instruments didn’t even want a second round interview, IBM took until late June and early July before getting around to trying to interview me last year (pretty awesome to have to tell the same company twice that you’re in Seattle. NI’s IT department sounded interested, but they won’t make a move until spring, and that won’t do nearly as much for me as Microsoft or Amazon. So basically, if there’s anyone in the world who has enough free soda to lure me out of the heart of texas, it’s microsoft, and they may be trying their hardest in 2 weeks. *shakes fist at NI*
Classes go on, 2 of them i’ve pretty much decimated with another 2 doing their best to get my GPA to a 3.5 this semester, and given the above paragraph, i’m finding it real hard to find a sense of urgency in preventing them. Neither one is going to be especially relevant to my future life. I sometimes wonder what future life they do have relevance to. My MIS class is surprisingly helpful and relevant, and my finance class is for many intents and purposes a class on translating and solving word problems which is basically what 13 years of mathematics (with some noteworthy exceptions in Mr. Zielke and Mrs. Van Liefde back at Jesuit) prepared me for. And since the equations the problems reduce to are algebra 1 equations, i’m horribly overprepared for the class. Now if only i could say the same for my Management and CS classes. At least management is my middle class of the day on TTH so my attendance is exemplary there.
I’ve discovered the narcotic that is text messaging. It consumes me.
I’ll try to do this more often, but i make no promises. At least I’m posting in October
Happy Halloween?