What?

Well, I figure it's about time for me to post here again. As usual, I had planned to post something before now, but I got caught up with a bunch of other stuff that grabbed my attention and refused to let go. Most of my time in the past couple weeks has gone into studying, finding a "real person" job, and spending time with friends I don't get to see very often. Last week was the career fair, and I got some decent leads on possible full-time opportunities. I interviewed with some people from Siemens up in Minnesota, and I'm hoping that I get the chance to look into a job with them a bit further. I'm also planning on following up with OPPD and filling out an application for Rockwell Collins.

Other than that, I had my first two tests of the semester last week, and I think they went pretty well. Human Sexuality and Bioinformatics are not the classes I'm worried about, but it's still nice to know that I've got two tests down. My senior design group has begun meeting regularly to discuss our project, and we've got a rough draft for a project proposal.

A couple friends who live in Minnesota and Chicago visited over the weekend. My friend Brett's car broke down here, and I almost made a round trip to and from Minneapolis tonight in order to get him home, but in the end he decided to wait until tomorrow morning when his car will (supposedly) be fixed. That's probably a good thing, because my car is in desperate need of an oil change due to a combination of a busy schedule and my amazing talent for procrastination. It was a great time hanging out with Brett and Kassie, but I might have overdone it a bit. I've been fighting a cold for the better part of a week, and I was almost over it on Friday night, but I had a mysterious relapse on Saturday. Some have suggested that lack of sleep and consumption of huge amounts of alcohol may have played a part in that, and I suppose the theory has some merit.

In other news, I now have a part-time position at the ISU Solution Center working as a concierge. That means that I greet people coming in for assistance, but I generally don't have to actually help them solve their problem. The hiring personnel who interviewed me seemed concerned that I would be unhappy with the position because I'd know the answers to people's problems and be forbidden by protocol to help them. What they don't realize is that feeling overqualified for a job is kind of refreshing to me; it certainly makes a sharp contrast to an engineering interview. In any case, I have a few friends who work there as tech support personnel, and I'll be more than happy to pass walk-ins on to them knowing that their problems will be solved.

This weekend I'm going back to Nebraska to visit the Omaha crew. On saturday I'm heading down to Peru State College with Jeff to visit his girlfriend and a bunch of her friends. I'm really looking forward to that!

Well, that's it for me. Bed time. No creative writing this time, but I'm hoping that the muse pays me a visit soon.