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Well, today was so nice, but once again I was so tired when I got home that I slept all day. I really meant only to sleep until about 1, but I didn't get up until 4pm. I have another interview tomorrow. This will be my 3rd interview for the photolithography eng'r job. The first two turned out to be quite a debacle. Due to the inexperience of the new HR representative they pulled the wrong questions. I had noticed during the interview process that the questions seemed really quite easy in comparison with last time. No questions about swing curves, Bossung plots, focus-exsposure matrices and I was beginning to think that perhaps the questions were tailored for Ellery, my undereducated competition. I then found out later that they had actually pulled the process technician questions instead of the engineering questions. In hind-sight that makes perfect sense recalling my etch process tech. interview. So, the interview was rescheduled for last Tuesday. Since I had already planned to go to Washington to visit I had to then cut short the visit to come back to Hynix by Tuesday afternoon for the interview. When I got there no one showed up and it turns out the HR rep, Laura, scheduled the interview during Byung Il's engineering manager meeting, so he could not attend. Ron was on vacation and Laura Murphy was in Korea so no one could attend. They were really apologetic about the 3rd rescheduling and offered to pay me for my gas so I got $45 out of the non-interview and now I have to go in tomorrow for it. I've abandoned all studying attempts. I think perhaps if I go in less prepared it might look a little better. That doesn't seem to make any sense, but I don't want to risk appearing "coached" as I did at the etch interview.
The last few weeks have been busy. I worked Thurs. night March 2 and drove up to Washington Friday morning to visit Mom, Dad, Emily and Marsha. I probably should not have driven because I was really tired, but I made it. I had to crank the radio really loud on talk radio to keep from falling asleep. Much of the drive is a fog in my brain which tells me I was way too tired. The visit was very nice. I was able to help Mom move some furniture around and clean and organize some of the garage. On Sunday we make the trek to Bellingham to finish some of the long overdue projects to make the house fit to sell. Why "fit to sell" and "fit to inhabit" are two different standards to my father, I will never understand, but that seems to be his way: only do that which is necessary. That, I think, coupled with his waning interest in Bellingham over the years had left the place to a large degree unfinished until just before the selling point. It really hit me emotionally to see many things finally complete that my sisters and I had to live with unfinished our entire college careers while living in the house. I was also felt unsettled and chagrined by Dad's constant badgering about purchasing a home. As we were painting the living room we began talking about the appreciation real estate has realized in the last 4 years. He kept harping the point that I should have bought a home as soon as I moved to Eugene. While it's easy for one to say that now that my income is significantly more than it was, I'm not sure that I could have even afforded it then. When I tell him of Russell and my troubles now with finding a suitable piece in our price-range he takes that of even further supporting evidence that I should have purchased a home 3 years ago. While he is correct, I don't need to be made to feel guilty about not having bought a home then. When I tell him that we plan to purchase as soon as we have the $20,000 for a down-payment he doesn't seem to hear me. I even told him we'd buy a home this month if he'd give us the money for the down. He didn't seem to like that idea. He is of the opinion that we should be able to buy a place with 0 down. I don't know how though because both WA mutual and internet lender I contacted told me we didn't qualify for the first time home-buyer 0-down program. I really don't mean to belabor this point of the home because it does add a tone of unpleasantness to the visit and as a whole, other than this discourse with my father the visit was nothing but wonderful. Anyhow, we did get a lot done at the house and had a really nice lunch at the Village Inn, a place in Bellingham I've never visited before. When I visit Bellingham after having been away for so long I'm really struck by how much I still like Bellingham as a city. I wish there were more job opportunities in my field up there.
Monday I drove down in caravan with Mom to visit Marci in Vancouver. Although the visit was short it was very nice to see her again. It's been years. I think it's been since Ryan and I went to her Christmas get-together 3 years ago. She and Mom were collaborating on the wedding quilt. It is going to be so beautiful! I am really touched by the amount of time, effort, and creativity that are going into its creation. I also showed Marci and Mom my pictures from Europe and chose some to enlarge. I was very impressed by the enlargements Marci and Dave have from their visit to England. They are 11 x 14 with double mats and metal frames and they look very nice. I'd like to have many of my best photos enlarged and framed to display. Although, I'll need some wall space before I can display any!
Wednesday was back to work. It was a tough week because I'd been on a day schedule for 5 days straight. Getting used to working all night again was excruciating. By 3 am I'm just so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. I made it, though and I'm glad for the weekend.
The last few weeks have been busy. I worked Thurs. night March 2 and drove up to Washington Friday morning to visit Mom, Dad, Emily and Marsha. I probably should not have driven because I was really tired, but I made it. I had to crank the radio really loud on talk radio to keep from falling asleep. Much of the drive is a fog in my brain which tells me I was way too tired. The visit was very nice. I was able to help Mom move some furniture around and clean and organize some of the garage. On Sunday we make the trek to Bellingham to finish some of the long overdue projects to make the house fit to sell. Why "fit to sell" and "fit to inhabit" are two different standards to my father, I will never understand, but that seems to be his way: only do that which is necessary. That, I think, coupled with his waning interest in Bellingham over the years had left the place to a large degree unfinished until just before the selling point. It really hit me emotionally to see many things finally complete that my sisters and I had to live with unfinished our entire college careers while living in the house. I was also felt unsettled and chagrined by Dad's constant badgering about purchasing a home. As we were painting the living room we began talking about the appreciation real estate has realized in the last 4 years. He kept harping the point that I should have bought a home as soon as I moved to Eugene. While it's easy for one to say that now that my income is significantly more than it was, I'm not sure that I could have even afforded it then. When I tell him of Russell and my troubles now with finding a suitable piece in our price-range he takes that of even further supporting evidence that I should have purchased a home 3 years ago. While he is correct, I don't need to be made to feel guilty about not having bought a home then. When I tell him that we plan to purchase as soon as we have the $20,000 for a down-payment he doesn't seem to hear me. I even told him we'd buy a home this month if he'd give us the money for the down. He didn't seem to like that idea. He is of the opinion that we should be able to buy a place with 0 down. I don't know how though because both WA mutual and internet lender I contacted told me we didn't qualify for the first time home-buyer 0-down program. I really don't mean to belabor this point of the home because it does add a tone of unpleasantness to the visit and as a whole, other than this discourse with my father the visit was nothing but wonderful. Anyhow, we did get a lot done at the house and had a really nice lunch at the Village Inn, a place in Bellingham I've never visited before. When I visit Bellingham after having been away for so long I'm really struck by how much I still like Bellingham as a city. I wish there were more job opportunities in my field up there.
Monday I drove down in caravan with Mom to visit Marci in Vancouver. Although the visit was short it was very nice to see her again. It's been years. I think it's been since Ryan and I went to her Christmas get-together 3 years ago. She and Mom were collaborating on the wedding quilt. It is going to be so beautiful! I am really touched by the amount of time, effort, and creativity that are going into its creation. I also showed Marci and Mom my pictures from Europe and chose some to enlarge. I was very impressed by the enlargements Marci and Dave have from their visit to England. They are 11 x 14 with double mats and metal frames and they look very nice. I'd like to have many of my best photos enlarged and framed to display. Although, I'll need some wall space before I can display any!
Wednesday was back to work. It was a tough week because I'd been on a day schedule for 5 days straight. Getting used to working all night again was excruciating. By 3 am I'm just so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. I made it, though and I'm glad for the weekend.