Over on reddit, where I tend to spend a lot of my time, anonymgirl posted an article about the girls in the boston/cambridge area. People commented on it and one guy said he’d be interested in doing this everything, random reddit meetups. Well, I replied saying I’d help do this in seattle. Someone replied saying they would be at pax as an enforcer, and so we’re hoping to get a group of redditors to wear pins at PAX! We created an article on reddit about it, and I’m going to buy some buttons for PAX too. Oberon, the guy who’s the enforcer, posted on the enforcer boards to check on intrest in buttons. If you’re going to be at PAX and want a button, let me know! It’s a buck for each button, which is cheaper then buying them yourself.

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Finally got my new video card yesterday, it’s a 7800GT. Huge improvement over my 6600 that I had before. Went from player stalker at 20fps (which dropped to like 7 when I fired a gun) to 80-100, 80-90 when I raised the graphics. I grabbed the Bioshock game demo last night and played it, was pretty damn sweet; story is a bit messed up, but gameplay is pretty sweet.

Over the weekend me and Helen went up to B-ham to visit friends, we went and saw Ashley, then went to a party at the mint, wasn’t too interesting, we left after about 2 hours. We went back to Ashleys apartment where we were staying and played Mariokart. I got a hold of Mantis and he came over and hung out for a bit too, we had to go back to his house to grab some more controllers for the N64. Was pretty damn sweet (although I kept getting distracted while playing, and Ashleys tv is hella tiny).

As for the job search, I haven’t really given it much effort. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I shouldn’t work this coming quarter. I have to get Circle K off the ground, and the only jobs I can find are full-time and that wouldn’t work out since I’d have to have meetings during the day, a couple classes I’ll need to take are in the middle of the day 4 days a week, and I’ll have to take them eventually. Plus my current job ends in september, so I can just work till then and afterwards have my parents pay for everything (they’ve kinda been wanting to do that for awhile).

All the interviews I’ve gone to have gone fairly well, but I haven’t gotten a job offer yet (would be getting a lot if I change my monster profile to looking for full-time jobs, but I got tired of answering phone calls from recruiters about jobs in nebraska), had a couple interesting ones, one at a web host and another for a small vc. I suppose I should write up a new cover letter and send out my resume to ads on craigslist, but I don’t really have the motivation.

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When you’re out in the woods, lost in the city or just out in the jungle hunting chimpanzees and got a little disoriented and you’re without your trusty compass, use your watch!

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Sarah is in Town and it is awesomness! Yay for hanging out bunches!

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I’ve decided to bite the bullet and work a help desk position. I really wanted to a job where I could get my hands dirty working with servers/networking/some sort of administrative work. However, it looks like everything that is that is full-time or in some oddly placed location.

Right now I just need to work through college and get my stupid AA. As soon as I have that out of the way I’ll be able to focus better on finding a job, for now I’ve begun applying to tier 1 jobs that are strictly help desk. Although I’m not going for the call center jobs, those just suck. The campuspoint site seems to have a few good IT jobs. I applied to a couple that were pretty appealing, although they show up as full-time (at the firststep interview one of the managers said I should still apply for it, since it was a position he was in charge of). Just applied to another that may just work, although it’s a short 2 month job :/

I guess I’ll poke at craigslist a little more and hope I get lucky. Another week and I’ll start looking for an apartment.

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Not a lot has happened lately, mostly working right now. Had a group interview yesterday, that went fairly well (hopefully I’ll hear back from them about a couple jobs I applied to). Was supposed to have one last week, but that somehow fell through (lack of communication on their part). Pretty much all the interviews I’ve had so far have been with recruiters, so if I’m lucky I’ll start getting calls in about a week or two (The first interview I went to a couple weeks back was awesome, and the guy said he would give me a call in august about jobs since I said I planned to stick around insightful until mid-august).

I’m just hoping the whole be completely honest and say you won’t leave until you finish your project thing pulls through, because if not, I may just be sounding like a pompous ass to them.

And Friday is ICON

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