i wrote it in half-time just to say thanks
so, i'm home for the summer. part of me is relieved for various reasons, but part of me feels that this is somewhat stale. i'm recently 24 and it seems like i should have something else to go to during the summer, even if it is just my apartment in tuscaloosa. i don't mind being here and i know i won't be here for more than one or two summers more, depending on where i end up after finishing grad school next may. with any luck, i'll be looking at a decent job, one that might take me somewhere other than birmingham. leaving birmingham is by no means my goal or intention, but after seeing the job market this year's MBA graduates encountered, it might be a necessity, at least in the short-term.
everything is going quite well these days. by these days, i mean specifically the ones since last friday. the semester ended, finals ended and i finally got an internship lined up for the summer. i will be working at the offices of the american red cross on southside in birmingham. the whole thing came about suddenly. i found out on last monday that i'd be interviewing on tuesday afternoon and i had an offer by wednesday afternoon. they also made offers to two other members of my MBA class, including cynthia. that was certainly a good thing. they are essentially letting me build my internship around my interests, which will likely be in logistics/operations. everyime i mention "operations" at the red cross, i feel like i'm implying that i'll be standing next to doctors, handing over little pouches of blood during surgery. in all honesty, i don't know exactly what i'll be doing, but it will probably be something about making sure the right people and equipment are in the right place at the right time. something like that.
it'll be good to be back into making money. i'll be making much more than i was at the law firm this time last year, but still not quite the mint that US steel was giving me during my undergrad internship. i've been spending money a lot in the past week, but i have birthday money and at least now i know i'll be making money in a couple of weeks. today i had my first significant new-release tuesday in quite some time. i came home with the new albums by dave matthews band and weezer, and the criterion collection dvds of the life aquatic and hoop dreams. all were on sale, so it really didn't cost that much. i also picked up the new spoon album, gimme fiction for my sister, but i'll make myself a copy very soon.
i also picked up the esoteric's album with the sureness of sleepwalking. yes, that's a dumb album name, but it is metal/hardcore stuff, so that's not surprising. excluding converge and isis, i can't think of the last time i bought an album from that genre. it was probably envy's dead sinking story, and appropriately, the esoteric reminds me of them musically. the vocals aren't in japanese, though.
i am reading two books at the moment. i try to not do that, but i feel like both of these fit my range of comprehension and interest for two books at once. they are a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson and alabama curiosities by andy duncan. both are non-fiction and pretty easy to read. when i'm done with both, i will even fuller of useless information. the way i see it, if these authors went to the trouble of writing all this, i at least owe it to them to read it.
i found out i made 2 A's and 2 B's this semester. that's a big improvement over last semester, especially since one of the B's was almost an A, according to the professor. if that had slid to an A, i would have three of those and only one B, in the hardest class of the semester that i was worried about not passing when the semester began. this semseter was actually an improvement over every other semester since college started, and for more reason than just grades.
yesterday was a great day, primarily because of how it began and ended. i had never actually gotten to pull up to the terminal at the airport to drop someone off, then come back and pick them up. now i can say i did and i was very happy to do it.
everything is going quite well these days. by these days, i mean specifically the ones since last friday. the semester ended, finals ended and i finally got an internship lined up for the summer. i will be working at the offices of the american red cross on southside in birmingham. the whole thing came about suddenly. i found out on last monday that i'd be interviewing on tuesday afternoon and i had an offer by wednesday afternoon. they also made offers to two other members of my MBA class, including cynthia. that was certainly a good thing. they are essentially letting me build my internship around my interests, which will likely be in logistics/operations. everyime i mention "operations" at the red cross, i feel like i'm implying that i'll be standing next to doctors, handing over little pouches of blood during surgery. in all honesty, i don't know exactly what i'll be doing, but it will probably be something about making sure the right people and equipment are in the right place at the right time. something like that.
it'll be good to be back into making money. i'll be making much more than i was at the law firm this time last year, but still not quite the mint that US steel was giving me during my undergrad internship. i've been spending money a lot in the past week, but i have birthday money and at least now i know i'll be making money in a couple of weeks. today i had my first significant new-release tuesday in quite some time. i came home with the new albums by dave matthews band and weezer, and the criterion collection dvds of the life aquatic and hoop dreams. all were on sale, so it really didn't cost that much. i also picked up the new spoon album, gimme fiction for my sister, but i'll make myself a copy very soon.
i also picked up the esoteric's album with the sureness of sleepwalking. yes, that's a dumb album name, but it is metal/hardcore stuff, so that's not surprising. excluding converge and isis, i can't think of the last time i bought an album from that genre. it was probably envy's dead sinking story, and appropriately, the esoteric reminds me of them musically. the vocals aren't in japanese, though.
i am reading two books at the moment. i try to not do that, but i feel like both of these fit my range of comprehension and interest for two books at once. they are a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson and alabama curiosities by andy duncan. both are non-fiction and pretty easy to read. when i'm done with both, i will even fuller of useless information. the way i see it, if these authors went to the trouble of writing all this, i at least owe it to them to read it.
i found out i made 2 A's and 2 B's this semester. that's a big improvement over last semester, especially since one of the B's was almost an A, according to the professor. if that had slid to an A, i would have three of those and only one B, in the hardest class of the semester that i was worried about not passing when the semester began. this semseter was actually an improvement over every other semester since college started, and for more reason than just grades.
yesterday was a great day, primarily because of how it began and ended. i had never actually gotten to pull up to the terminal at the airport to drop someone off, then come back and pick them up. now i can say i did and i was very happy to do it.