dude...i am soooo excited! i have 3 job interviews lined up. 3 big real ones, like onsite and stuff!

Wed: houston, USA (NASA) to be an instructor for ISS (International space station). - this is the one i really want. i have to give a 15-20 min presentation! aah!

Thur-Sat: Phoenix, General Dynamics, Systems Engineer building satellites, sounds fun!

Mon: san antonio, Southwest Research Inst., systems engineering building satellites but with a better chance to go back to phd eventually, and within texas so i can keep my house.

 

Ahhh! I'm sooo excited! (now i have to go back to studying. what a buzz kill......)

ummm so i'm studying for that horrible test set on aug 14-16th. my hell will soon be over. they assure me this is the hardest part about getting your phd...funny i think they'll say that every step of the way. so after the test i may be leaving to get a real job for a bit. i can use a touch of reality i think. oh guess what....i quit my job at aggiesat! yea! it feels so good not to be program manager - that was a lot of stress! best part is my advisor is still paying me to study. uh don't ask me what i'm doing in the fall. cuz i don't know. i do know on july 29th i'll be in dallas playing the harp for a really good friend's wedding. fun! ok that's all. so i spend my days studying and my nights playing harp. who wouldn't be jealous (ha as if)...ok ... bye!

have an interview in phoenix next week. that's exciting. ummmm oh oh oh i went riding on my hog (his/her name is pedro or caroline depending on the day) for 3 hours to bastrop and back. i met my dad and we went kayacking. (i didn't even get a ticket for kayacking or speeding!)

ok busy studying. for real yo.

So my weekend was awesome. I did crafts and stuff, and practiced for the wedding, it was incredible! This 40 hour week thing is pretty nice.

While at dinner with a friend in Houston, I called my Mom because they were planning on coming to visit Sun-Tue. My dad answered and we started talking casually, then he goes, "oh, your mother is in an ambulance on the way to ER". I was like, "what!?!" Apparently she had a bicycle riding accident: she hit a pothole at the same time she grabbed her front brake and just flipped with the bike landing on her. Thank God she was wearing a helmet. She landed on her head and right shoulder and was clearly in a lot of pain. Then my dad starts talking about how he's feeding the dog cuz he got a ride home in the fire truck and he's on his way out there but the fire truck was sooo cool. I was like "dad! I know you don't like hospitals, but get your butt to mom's bed!" She's okay though. Broke her right collarbone where it meets the sternum (sp??) so her right arm is in a sling for the next few months. It will be hard for her too, because she talks with her hands....hehe, like me.

Less sad news, in fact somewhat funny: I just got out of a managers meeting here. One of the guys I work with, lets call him 'ass' immediately started talking, again, and took up the whole hour, again, the arrogant jerk. I was looking as his crappy document that he made, and he added up the amounts wrong. He was overpricing by $1000. So, there's a break in the conversation, and I try to talk to let him know. I say one word he looks at me and immediately begins talking and never gives me a chance to say what I was planning to. So about five minutes later when it's clear he's not coming back to me, I circle the number on the paper and write "the numbers don't add up. You're $1000 off" and throw the damn thing across the table. The ass. He continues to shut me up the rest of the meeting. What the hell is wrong with him? He's such a cocky jackass. Literally everything I suggested, he mocked in front of my boss and everyone. I said "I think it would be nice if we came up with a lab motto and stuck with it" since we have the old one my dad randomly used and this new one he's putting on shit "Reach for the stars" (oh gag me). He says, "we don't need a lab motto" and started talking about something else, like the subject was closed. My boss looked surprised at me and just moved on in the new conversation. So I retaliated every caddy chance I got. His document had 'AggieSAT' on the front of it and so at the end of the meeting when everyone was leaving I said "AggieSat is spelled with a lower-case 'at' and needs a 'Lab' after it" and he tried to get into an argument with me about it asking if I wrote a document with that because no one ever told him and it changes so often. I looked at him and said, it hasn't changed since Sept, and I have given this lecture many times at many meetings, so it seems you're the only one who doesn't know, in addition to the fact that it's spelled correctly on every released document and in both templates". My boss bolted.

He's such a jerk - he belittles me every change he gets and I have no idea why. I realize I'm the only girl in the lab (soon to change) but I have way more experience than him with this, plus I have a masters and he doesn't. He'd just starting his MBA and he's freaking old. Granted he did a military tour or two, which is exactly how he 'talks' to his employees and coworkers, but friggin eh, he's in the real world now. Get over himself.

yes i realize this is funny in how dumb it was. I get that. But he is such an ass and no one is standing up to him! I printed out the emails of what I've asked him to do for AggieSat1 and I realized he hasn't done a single item - I did all of them last week after waiting for 2 weeks of nothing. who the hell does he think he is? he's new here. He belitted me today at one point for not forwarding an email to him from the Air Force because that's information he needed to know immediately. I said, I assumed that's what these managers meeting are for, to bring up now, which is what i'm doing. UHHHH He's such an ass! and the worst part is, he's going to continue being one because after i leave, everyone else will just put up with it. This organization is forgetting everything I think is important and becoming so what I'd hoped it wouldn't be. I'm glad I'm leaving.