so i found out today that for some strange reason, the manager at my last job can’t give me a good reference. i wonder what happened after i left that changed his mind. i’m really trying not to let it bother me, but i worked really hard at that place. and i don’t quite get what changed…what did i leave behind that left them with a bad taste in their mouths?

time to find a few new references.

car: paid off.
new house: rockstar!
new job: on the way.

had a phone interview/technical screening on monday, and then had a face-to-face interview with the same guys today. whew. i’m proud of myself for having made it thus far.

i just got another e-mail from a technical recruiter about another job.

both are development jobs. both are a step up from what i’m doing now. yay! monster.com is working surprisingly well for me this time around. it’s just a little slower than other methods.

our DVR takes a long time to reboot. and it randomly erases stuff we’ve saved…all at once. i think when the disk gets full, it crashes? or when there’s a power outage. i can’t tell which because the 2 criteria are present whenever we have problems with it.

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when was the last time you watched the clouds go by? i saw some amazing clouds today. they raced across the sky, evolving into different shapes and sizes.

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outback prime rib is good on a friday night.

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a woman at work commented the other day that my relationship with charlie (my boyfriend) was one of the most positive relationships she’s seen…particularly of people our age. that made me feel good since that’s one of my goals–positive experiences, particularly in my close relationships.

i still have a ton of gmail invites. storage space is up to 2117mb currently. if you want one, send me an e-mail at madethelflint@gmail.com.

house has become my favorite show of all time. well…not of all time, but it’s a damn good show. it’s like CSI meets ER…and none of the crazy drama of ER.

24 is a close second. while 24 is a great show, there’s a bit too much drama for me to watch and still relax. i have enough stress during the day…i don’t need any more intensity that i create in my own world.

anyway… i highly recommend house. great “sleuth” type medical show.

i’m feeling very marketable right now. i’ve submitted my (corrected) resume to two more companies today for web developer jobs. while i’m unsure of how TRULY marketable i am, i feel confident knowing that there are positions out there that even fit what i’m looking for.

*crossing fingers*

RIP Sam Mills

i just sent my updated resumes out to a couple of job opportunities. one went to a guy about a client-server support job. the other went to a company about a web development job (entry level, i think).

*crossing fingers*

i’ve been updating my resume over the last few days, and i realized that i now have 10 years of consistant work history. isn’t it at 10 years where you become an expert at doing something (if you’ve done it for 10 years)?

we didn’t get our annual icing/snow shower this past winter. interesting.

it’s global warning ACK lol! WTF OMFG@!!!#$

my senior project group has a strange dynamic to it. it’s a bit passive. i’m not sure if it’s because we got together in order to help with our workload or what. we’d never met before, so not only are we having to work in a group, but we’re also having to figure out how everyone works.

i tend to be passive in situations like that because i’m not comfortable. i’ve considered doing the project on my own several times throughout the semester, but i feel i can learn something from this experience. it’s a social and scholastic exercise i think. i certainly won’t always be put in groups with my friends in the real world. so i’d better get used to it now.

perhaps if i was more confident in some of the things we’re doing, i’d be more…aggressive about pushing my ideas. as it stands, i’m not nearly as eloquent in expressing my desire to, for instance, use a database instead of flat files. i know in my head how i should sound, but i simply can’t translate that into something convincing.

argh.

controlling activities using only the brain will open up a world of information, i believe. for those who are paralyzed, this technology will re-enable them. additionally, though, i think this type of technology could really lead to clues on those who are considered vegetables or brain dead.

it would be very enlightening to see what kind of brain activity/control, if any, would be possible by those who are considered vegetables. i know that doctors can already get an idea of the brain activity, but i’d be curious to see if the results would be any different with technology such as this. if given the chance, would someone who’s incapacitated make great strides to show results in such a device?

yesterday, i registered for the last undergrad classes i will ever take!

graduation date: 12/17/05

picked up ender’s shadow recently, and boy is it enlightening!! for those of you that’ve read ender’s game, you should definitely read ender’s shadow if you haven’t already. while the other books in the ender series were more detailed and focused (and i love all of them), this is very much in the style of ender’s game. it also fills in a lot of what ender’s game left out . and since i’ve read almost all of the books in this series, it all ties together even more.

so fascinating.

life and knowledge are opposites. i never thought of that before i read this book. in the Bible, God put a tree of knowledge (which was forbidden) and a tree of life (which was allowed)–one gives death and the other gives life. even if you believe the Bible is just stories, it’s interesting the kind of relationship it shows between life and knowledge.

love at first bite.