I’ve been silent… but I have an excuse. August 24, 2008
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My grandmother’s house has no internet. I am living with my grandmothers house this summer while working for MSMWD (Mid-Sized Municipal Water District). This means that the only time I get to use the internet is at work. Which sadly makes it difficult to blog about… well, you’ve read my blog… just about nothing.
As far as this summer is going… Work is amazing, I have something resembling a love life (for once) and I love being able to spend time with my extended family. I also completely miss my friends and my sister, school, and my grandmother while I love her to death can drive me up a wall at times. So, it’s typical life. In all though it has been an awesome summer and I look forward to getting back to regular blogging. As it is I trek down to the Tully’s Coffee House here in Port Orchard, sit myself in the tall table by the window (experience has taught me that this table has the best internet connection) and do whatever it is I cannot do at work… generally read the questionable emails & links my sister sends me (thanks Kristin, I’d be ready to strip for that guy too. Gorgeous guys should not be allowed to join the priesthood… but that is another post).
This also was my hang out while watching the last few episodes of Doctor Who (Kristin now skip to next paragraph). So I would like you to picture this. You are walking into Tully’s to get you half-caff, non-fat, soy, extra foam, extra shot, white chocolate Mocha, you see this blonde sitting by the window with her fist pressed against her lips, eyes wide, possibly about to cry as she intently watches her computer screen. If this sounds familiar you probably saw me. I cried. A lot. I am going to miss Donna sooooooo much and as far as I care it almost would have been a better fate to have Donna die. I think she would almost rather die than go back to how she was before she met the Doctor. As for Rose. I guess she’ll be happy, and it works, but it is not him… it’s not. If anyone watches Doctor Who confidential I think Billie Piper said it perfectly. It just feels sooo wrong. Because no matter how you look at it, it still isn’t the Doctor. Now I just have to wait until 2010 *sob*.
Getting ready for a trip to Victoria with my Little Sis, Jesse. I booked the hotel today. Should be great fun. I’m looking forward to taking her out to a few bars and clubs. Seeing as we never get to do that stuff in Corvallis due to the drinking age (post on US drinking age and the recent discussion of lowering the US drinking age) and general lack of decent clubs.
I bought a new camera for the trip. Granted I’ve needed to go get a new camera since my last one died in January (with it’s lens open and extended, which is kinda like with it’s eyes open & you can’t close them). So I got a little Sanyo for less than $100. I don’t care if it’s the best camera on the market. I had 3 qualifications:
1. Takes pictures (in more detail I was looking for 8 mega-pixels, settled for 7.1 rather than spending the extra money for the 8… besides the 8 would have meant a few features would have slacked until I went up to about $160)
2. Cheap (I bought it at Walmart… I usually don’t shop there, but like I said I wanted it to be cheap)
3. Won’t break on me, unlike my last one. (Guy at the counter said he’d never seen a Sanyo returned. But he saw a lot of Kodaks returned.)
My little Sanyo fits these, so I’m good. And it is gold.
I will have more posts once I return to school, and my lovely studio apartment. See you all then!
Oh the Possibilities! February 27, 2008
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I interviewed for an internship position with Acme Construction Company out of the Puget Sound area last Thursday. Acme Construction is a part Big Well Respected specializing in Heavy Construction, Marine Construction and some Industrial Construction. The projects are mostly located in Puget Sound (Well, OK, so only the marine stuff is actually IN Puget Sound, we’ll say in and around). I’m really hoping this works out but this seems highly competitive. If I were to get this position I’d be living with Grandma Pam this summer. Let me clarify what living with Grandma means. My Grandmother lives on a piece of land that was once a dairy. It is situated at the end of a valley that is still almost completely farm land. My famiy bought it back in the ’70’s. Built a brick house, dug a lake, and then my step-grandfather was paralyzed in a hospital accident. The farm was reduced in function and most of the land sold off. We still have a good amount of land, and the land that was ours was sold to neighbors, not developers. These days the only farming that goes on is a handful of cows, and calves, hay, my uncles two goats (Who are just so damn cute and know it, for they love showing off to passers by), and the occasional group of market hogs, although my uncle may stop doing that due to difficulties finding a butcher. But what the “Farm” still has, is a lake that has been improved since the original ’80’s lake, tennis courts, sand volleyball court, a 6 car garage with 1600 sq ft loft (studio apartment) above (which I might mention has an amazing view of the valley), my uncle’s house, his garden, and the brick house where my grandmother still lives (my step-grandfather died in 1994). This was the place where I grew up coming to. I was born in that town. I lived there for most of my early childhood. And when we weren’t in town we would spend many family vacations at the farm. Oh, did I mention I can be in Seattle in about an hour by ferry, which is an amazing way to travel, as Puget Sound is gorgeous. So maybe you see now why living there would be amazing.
I don’t want to diminish the internship. Big Well Respected is one of those companies that people want to work for. Hell, I want to work for them, and not just this summer. I would love to work for them in my professional career. I could learn a lot working for Acme Construction, and the work that they do, and where it is fascinates me. A lot of the challenges of working in the Pacific Northwest were what interested me in Civil Engineering in the first place (the CE in my sn is for Civil Engineering). There is a particular project that they are working on that I am fascinated by. I am praying that I get it. And I know I have a number of people praying and hoping for me, too. So, maybe God will answer those prayers and I’ll get it.
Why to work slowly January 23, 2008
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Like most university students I get paid by the hour. While the pay is low I do enjoy my job a lot. I do not work with food, I work pretty independently without anyone telling me what to do every second, oh, and I don’t have a bloody uniform. I am basically a student rep. So I talk to students when they come into the office and lead meetings. Most of the time however it is bloody slow and I get to work on other projects, presentations, fliers, whatever is assigned. So today I come in and the to do list is empty, so I get some information for a Information Session and then I got to work on a flier for it. Within about an hour, really only about 45 minutes I finished it. I can only restock, dust and copy so many forms for my 7×15 office space. Now I’m sitting here in my office being bored and listening to NPR (not a symptom of the boredom, I usually do listen to NPR). Ah well it’s a long day!
Flipping Amazing Day!!! October 18, 2007
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Ok. So my first day back from being sick. I knew it was going to be busy. But this was just awesome. I started my day at 8 am. Not too early. Got up, got ready nice and quick without any problems and 45 minutes later was out the door to my meeting for work. I was the first one there. Beautiful thing. Everyone else was there just a minute or two later. I picked up some extra time doing Odyssey presentations for the ‘ittle Freshies.
I expected to have to leave early to make it to my next meeting, an interview but we finished early and I made it to the interview early, after standing around and talking to the other Ambassadors. My interview was at a place called Inspire Tutoring. They have offices just off campus on Monroe. The interview went so well. I could really use the money from tutoring and I can make good money at it.
After that I had a ton of spare time so I met Kristin at Kelley for lunch. Just as I finish my sandwich Katie showed up and we sat there chatting together.
AutoCAD was ok.
More free time during which I got tea and a cookie. Then I sat at work and fiddled on my stuff. A lot of people came in to look around. Then this blonde walked in and I realized there was an awful lot of noise coming from the lobby. “Hi, I have an Odyssey class here.” I thinking, “Um… Don’t Remember a class coming in today…” But I sent them into the Conference room and told her to give me 10. I managed to find Rachel, she got the projector set up while I got the files for
the slide show.
Rachel did a shpeil about various options. Then I got to talk about Sussex.
When that was over, Rachel came into the office and said she was glad I just jumped into a surprise situation and handled it well. I got to sit there and be happy. More people came. Everyone seemed interested in England. Which rocks by the way.
So I did my little presentation and had 5 minutes left so I shut everything down and left. Happy happy day.
New Blog October 15, 2007
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Haven’t blogged all summer. This blog is basically what its title says… I’m currently sitting in the Library with my math book open beside me… fairly pathetic really… I have far to much to do.
Anyways. Back from the UK. Seemed fitting to start a new blog. Go ahead and read the old ones. I like to segment my life like this.
Week 3 just ended. Midterms start way too soon. Much easier to avoid homework over doing it.
OH! I started working… after a summer of unemployment without the unemployment benefits. I have a job now working for the International Programs Office here at OSU. I’m an international ambassador. I basically tell people about going abroad. And make stuff about Sussex Uni. A presentation, a binder full of info. It’s a great job and I love it.
