There are just too many freaking games I need to play right now! Normally I’d be in heaven; stuck in front of my TV/computer playing till my eyes fall out and I die forgetting to breathe.
Whats holding me back from dying such a happy death? 19 credits at a college I can’t wait to get out of and a full time job in retail hell. I’m not left with much time for the important things in life - like saving the galaxy from blood-sucking zombie-making aliens who think Earth is one big buffett.
Lets review where I stand, shall we?
I have two papers due this week and two tests. Somehow those seem unimportant compared to the prospect of killing aliens with a crowbar.
Wooooooo!
*clears throat* Sorry about that. It seems that my uber worrying has have been for nothing. In fact, I don’t think things could have turned out any better.
I was flown down to DC two weeks ago for an interview at Lockheed Martin (read - people who won’t be outsourcing IT to India). They had me stay over night and interview in the morning at their recruiting center in DC for positions in the area. The interviews actually went well; they weren’t your typical "what are your best points", etc interviews. The interviewers were more interested in my coding practices, which lead me to believe that I had a foot in the door. After I was done interviewing I was told I’d hear back from them in 5-7 business days. This was on a Friday, so add 2 days to my wait time for the weekend. Gah.
Monday goes by and no word from them. This is good, right? They know if they hate you right away? They wouldn’t drag it out if they hated you, they’d call you right away?
Tuesday on the way to class the lady from HR I had been speaking with before the interviews called me. "I wanted to call you to give you some good news, do you have some time to talk?" I nearly pissed myself. Seriously.
Starting somtime in May or June I will be a "Commercial Application Software Engineer", aka Coder, for Lockheed Martin. Wee. The job is in Hanover, MD which is not too far out of DC, maybe like 20/30 minutes. The Nike Indoor Championships also happens to be in Hanover, making my commute to that every year even easier. Plus of course Baltimore is closer, close enough that I shouldn’t need a hotel for Otakon this year. At least in terms of the location the place should be nice.
To make the deal even better, Lockheed has a relocation package I quality for so my move is on them. I just have to get everything into boxes for them. I get a house-hunting trip on Lockheed too; sometime closer to my start date. I’m going to try to head down there earlier, maybe January, to get a feel for the area and see what areas I’d like to live in. Maybe stay with Felicity for the weekend or something. I don’t want to live in DC of course, the traffic would be a bitch. I’d like to live near the metro, so the trip into the city isn’t a pain in the arse. Dunno, I’ll figure all that out once I actually start to look around.
Its going to be odd leaving this area. My whole life I’ve lived within 40 minutes of our old house in West Chester. I think its a good thing though, finally getting out there on my own. I’ve been waiting for the day that I can get out of college and actually get a real job, a real llife. I was starting to worry it wouldn’t happen. Working my ass off coding all the time actually seems to have paid off.
Anywho, off to the Shitty for work. Only six more months of that place to go!
First off I’m happy that Kerry acted honorable and conceded the race when it honestly seemed to be Bush’s win. He could have made a repeat of 2000 and drug this on, but he didn’t. Shame he didn’t win. Shame many people viewed the election as "picking the lesser of two evils."
As for Bush, sigh. We finally elected him to office. On the plus side he can never be elected again.
We are so divided as a country it isn’t even funny. I don’t get how after all the shit Bush did as president we would still be so polar about him. A good quote from another blog:
You know, if Bill Clinton did half the shit George W Bush did, the republicans would have fucking crucified him - literally, they would have nailed him to a cross and hung him up on the White House lawn. It’s amazing that they can spend $87 million dollars trying to get Clinton impeached for getting a blowjob, and only $11 million on the commission trying to figure out who blew up the WTC. But that’s enough politics for me. This country makes me sad. I think I’m gonna move to Canada.
Sad, but true - although I don’t know about the moving to Canada part. They’re the first to be hit by the nuclear radiation when Bush pisses even more countries off.
Somehwere far...like England. Good old England.
Taken from Felicity’s away message:
This has nothing to do with whatever political party you affiliate yourself with. This has to do with the fact that I want my father to be able to swallow his own food and to be able to play and talk to my children. I want him to be able to remember things and to be able to play the same lullabyes to his grandchildren he played for me. Everytime I see him, there are more things he can’t do anymore. He will never ride a bike with me again. The man who taught me to play baseball can’t even play catch with me. He has Parkinson’s Disease, and our only hope is for stem cell research to be allowed. Please think of my father when you vote tomorrow. Vote for John Kerry. Please.
