ROCKET SHIPS

02/01/07: San Francisco to Sydney, Australia (via Los Angeles)
02/16/07: Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand
02/23/07: Auckland, New Zealand to Bangkok, Thailand
03/01/07: Bangkok, Thailand to Frankfurt, Germany (via Bahrain)
03/29/07: Paris, France to San Francisco (via Frankfurt)

Total: $2512.00

Currently stressed over the job situation.

I can't believe I'll be done with my degree in one month.

I think I'm buying the ticket outlined above tomorrow morning. Does anyone have any experience/opinions about RangeRoamer cell service (http://www.rangeroamer.com/)?

Watching the O.C. makes me overly emotional. It's such a horrible show, but I can't seem to stop watching.

Halloween 2006!




I thought the costumes were only mildly inappropriate, but we ended up getting a lot of positive and negative responses. Matt isn't a perv. Like any good english teacher, he just wants to help us with oral skills ;)

Just over a month until I'm done at CMU. Life after college, at this point, is terrifying. I'm looking at job offers, trying to figure out what my best option is.

Time to resurrect the blog!

I'm 3 weeks into my last semester, and so far things are going alright. I thought I was going to slack off and take 36 units (For non-CMU'ers: our units correspond to the hours/week you should be spending on class), but my research advisor convinced me to add 18 units of research for this semester. Not positive I'm going to stick with it, but I guess I should. It'll be good for me, even if I don't enjoy it at times.

My plan for next semester changes hourly. Current possibilities include:

• Co-op (Engine analysis for GM Aero group? Google again?)
  
• Research at CMU
  
• Volunteer work (tutoring, etc.)
  
• TA at CMU Qatar (long shot, v. scary prospect)
  
• Ski bum
  
• Backpack travel hippie (mmm smelly Caroline)

I created a new picture album. I like the fact that picasaweb lets users create as many albums as you would like (flickr limits free accounts to 3 sets), but there is a 250 mb limit.

Google bathrooms have heated toilet seats. And electronic buttons for different bidet functions. For serious.

I start work tomorrow. I'm anxious, but also excited. Orientation is from 10AM to 3:30PM, so the day should not be too challenging- just getting settled in and meeting everyone and such.

Graduation '06 was yesterday. It's scary to think that our graduation is only a year away. Even more frightening, I'll be done with my degree in about 7 months.

California is even nicer than I remember, I appreciate it a lot more now that I have been away for a few years. I miss Matt and my friends, but we'll all be back in Pittsburgh soon.

FYI: US air will not check any bags unless you check in at least 45 minutes before your flight. If you check in 43 minutes before your flight, well, then you're just out of luck and bumped to a new flight.

If only the world wasn't so stupid. Then maybe that guy wouldn't have crashed his van into the building on Boulveard of the Allies, and there wouldn't have been that traffic jam. And maybe then the stupid check in women would let you check your bags 43 minutes before your flight. And then maybe there wouldn't BE a rule about checking bags 45 minutes before your flight.

Stuck in PIT until 8:30 (my flight was supposed to leave at 6:10), then layover in Las Vegas, and finally home at 1:30AM (instead of 8:30, when my non-stop would have landed).

I want to complain to someone about their hidden bag policy (5 other people in line at the ticket counter were in the same boat as me), and the fact that I paid for a non-stop flight but I'm being stuck with a layover. Unfortunately, I know they'll just blow me off so it's not really worth the effort.

I haven't been writing lately since things have been going well, overall. I start work next week, I'll be back in CA tonight, and my finals went well.

As a final note: it's wayyyy uglier than I thought it would be.