Hamstering away on the big hamster wheel in the sky.
~*~ The ENS got it's own coffeeshop. I think they grossly misunderstood what students meant when they said that they wanted food near the engineering buildings. If we wanted payable-by-cash-only sub-Starbucks coffee and overpriced tiny, tiny sandwiches that wouldn't feed a six-year-old, we would (and do) go to the already existing Seattle's Best Coffee 50 feet away in the RLM. What we wanted was actual (and preferably Bevo-Bucks-payable) food, as in, you know, for lunch and things. The redeeming factor: the coffeeshop is called Ohm's. (Grr can't get the omega symbol to show up.) I can't get over how so-stupid-and-nerdy-it's-awesome that is.
~*~ In other so-stupid-and-nerdy-it's-awesome news, this is the picture on the login page of my email service. So very fitting.
~*~ I went to see the eye doctor optometrist earlier this week. Doooom at this rate, I will be blind in three years. *cries* I blame my summer internship of staring at a computer for 8 hours a day (I mean, 8 hours in addition to, you know, my normal daily computer usage). I think I should become a forest ranger instead. I bet those people have killer eyesight.
~*~ I will be leaving for China almost immediately after finals. This is the first time ever that I've gone back to China during winter. It will be great, with all the freezingness and dirty polluted snow and lack of central heating and lack of real winter clothes because I lived in Texas for the past six and a half years. Heh. J/k, j/k. I'm actually really excited, and hey, I can still fit into my eleven-year-old Canadian self's winter coat.
~*~ The dilemma du mois accompanying the above is where I'm going to spend New Year's. (China doesn't celebrate Christmas, so New Year's Eve/Day is the only holiday that matters.) My dad wants me to spend it with him in Shanghai because he's a frickin' wide-eyed five year old little boy in the big sparkly city, all "I'll take you to see this! And that! And oh, that other thing too!" My mom want me to spend it with my grandparents (her parents) because they've been basically counting down the days until my visit, and my grandmother has cancer. Both sides are guilting me (and it should be pretty obvious which side is more successful). Help? I want to see the glitzy New Year-y things in Shanghai too, but I feel really, REALLY obligated. :/ [/TMI]
~*~ The dilmma du jour, on the other hand, is this: would it be unethical to agree to an interview with the actual section manager who's hiring (as opposed to a general campus recruiter person) if I'm not that interested in the position, but I kinda sorta would like to have it as a backup in case nothing else pans out? It's really yucky though...device engineering and wafer yields and stuff (for Freescale, FYI). (Lol, it's also exactly what my mom does.)
~*~ In other so-stupid-and-nerdy-it's-awesome news, this is the picture on the login page of my email service. So very fitting.
~*~ I went to see the eye doctor optometrist earlier this week. Doooom at this rate, I will be blind in three years. *cries* I blame my summer internship of staring at a computer for 8 hours a day (I mean, 8 hours in addition to, you know, my normal daily computer usage). I think I should become a forest ranger instead. I bet those people have killer eyesight.
~*~ I will be leaving for China almost immediately after finals. This is the first time ever that I've gone back to China during winter. It will be great, with all the freezingness and dirty polluted snow and lack of central heating and lack of real winter clothes because I lived in Texas for the past six and a half years. Heh. J/k, j/k. I'm actually really excited, and hey, I can still fit into my eleven-year-old Canadian self's winter coat.
~*~ The dilemma du mois accompanying the above is where I'm going to spend New Year's. (China doesn't celebrate Christmas, so New Year's Eve/Day is the only holiday that matters.) My dad wants me to spend it with him in Shanghai because he's a frickin' wide-eyed five year old little boy in the big sparkly city, all "I'll take you to see this! And that! And oh, that other thing too!" My mom want me to spend it with my grandparents (her parents) because they've been basically counting down the days until my visit, and my grandmother has cancer. Both sides are guilting me (and it should be pretty obvious which side is more successful). Help? I want to see the glitzy New Year-y things in Shanghai too, but I feel really, REALLY obligated. :/ [/TMI]
~*~ The dilmma du jour, on the other hand, is this: would it be unethical to agree to an interview with the actual section manager who's hiring (as opposed to a general campus recruiter person) if I'm not that interested in the position, but I kinda sorta would like to have it as a backup in case nothing else pans out? It's really yucky though...device engineering and wafer yields and stuff (for Freescale, FYI). (Lol, it's also exactly what my mom does.)