Financial problems and surgery put a quick end to my career as a grad student. Oh well, maybe I will return to part time. Maybe I will try again for the fall of 2012.
Time to turn my attention back to my real career and find a job. I sent my first resume out this week and you can bet I will spend many hours on the job boards the next few weeks.
Wish me luck.
I haven’t written anything in a while. It’s because I’m not sure what to say. So much has happened and I don’t know where my life is headed.
On the happy side, I finished the 2009 Chicago Marathon. My knee started hurting in the first 10 miles so I didn’t have the fastest time but I don’t care. I finished!
I’m over committed again.
The level of academics is seriously higher here at IIT than at NEIU. I need to be spending so many more hours studding. I should be so much more focused on my classes.
My first contract project for NorthShore is getting fumbled. Just setting up my home pc became a big deal. I thought it would take a few hours: defrag the hard drive, install some software, nothing major. Instead, it took so long that I was almost to my deadline when I began doing real work. I few quirks in the presentation and the JavaScript had me start from scratch a few times doubling or tripling the amount of work I had anticipated. Then when I thought I had everything finally finished I go to present it and the very first page has JavaScript errors. It was terribly embarrassing sitting next to Teddy and finding out it was in production and broken after all that work, including an all-nighter last Wednesday.
The second bathroom still isn’t finished. This project I want to complete more than anything else. It’s been months and I’m sick of getting burned in the shower every times someone else turns on a faucet. Merrie has been understanding because of everything going on but I know she’s sick of having a huge section of the house closed off.