um 3 tests done! to celebrate i drove to san marcos and went shopping for real adult working clothes. those are expensive man! It was awesome though. my mom drove up and met me. way fun. i get to do errands for the next 2 weeks and no studying.

it's funny how mushy my brain is from thinking so much. yesterday i tried to look up 'surface area' on google to get an equation i needed, only i spelled 'surface' 'surphase'....yea. google didn't recognize it. oh and tonight at dinner i made my mom order for both of us because reading the menu was too much brain work. seriously. i told her to order whatever she wanted as long as it didn't have a bone in it....i really don't like meat still on the bone. don't know why. ok bed. i will be dreaming of shopping though :) my zen.

so i'm 1 test in and 2 to go. you may think this is an old entry, but no, i failed the first time. Not by too much, but oh well this is life. i'm soooo sick of studying though. i wasn't able to fall asleep last night, not that I was nervous because i really wasn't, but my brain was just on high gear, so anyway I'm way tired today. today's test went well. now it's 5pm and i should have been studying for tomrorow's test since 1pm, but alas i just can't get motivated. wanna know what i did instead? i did some market research on my house to determine its selling value. i made this great to do list detailing exactly what i have to do to move to phoenix.

this weekend mom and dad are coming to help me fix stuff up. my roommate may buy my house, so tonight we're going to talk about selling price. i feel like i should dress up for the occasion. mon-wed i'll be in phoenix house hunting then my super duper friends may come visit for the weekend, then i go to canada for a week, then the movers come to empty my house sept 7th....then i drive to arizona 8-9th and start work on the 11th. There. that was my month, so you can guess how long my to-do list is. which is why i'm not studying. ok the end. bye.

oh i forgot...linds and i went skydiving last sat! It was way fun!

 

ok back to pretend studying

So i suppose it has been a while....I um went to all 3 interviews. They went really well and I got all 3 job offers! (Sounds cool, but for someone as indecisive as me, it was a hard decision). It's been decided....I'm moving to phoenix. I'm working for general dynamics/spectrum astro helping them build satellites. My job will be a lot of paperwork, I actually won't do any of the building. My job is to make sure the different people building the satellite are communicating and that everything they're making will fit together. It's fun. I promise. It's going to be long weeks, but I get 3 weeks vacation a year and great retirement. I know, I'm a dork...but I had to use something to help me make my decision. Plus I love Arizona. I'm so psyched to be near my little sis and the few sisters left that I know.

I decided to move into a studio apartment to give sammy a little running room (and plus I can't afford a loft...haha, as if - those are way expensive). um yup. so now i'm selling my house. i'll let you know how that goes. oh and i'm supposed to be studying to retake that horrible test. it's next mon-wed. sad part is I really just can't study. Today is the first day. i know that's bad, but I really don't care. I think that's called apathy. Oh i saw this cute quote: 'What's the difference between apathy and ignorance? I don't know and I really don't care.' haha. I really have no motivation to do this, for the first time in my life, i can't convince myself that I want to do this. hmm....laying in bed all day doing nothing sounds sooo enticing. ick!

oh i start my job sept 11th. scary, huh? i'll be going to canada aug29-sept 6, then moving to phx, then working. so if you want to come visit...you have until the 29th!

ps kim i'm glad to hear you're coming back to texas. ...it missed you.

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.