Where's Calavera when you need him?

Happy Day of the Dead, again.

Does anyone else find it strange that Day of the Dead is actually two days?

 

I have an interview with a certain government organization in three and half hours.  I have mixed feelings about whether or not to tank the interview.  The job is very similar to what I was doing for the first two terms of co-op, and while I don't dislike doing .NET coding, I don't think there's a lot more I can learn from it.  Admittedly, I only applied because I think the idea of working for a spy organization is cool, but it's not like I would realistically have access to any sensitive data, I think that everyone who works there requires top clearance.

 

There is also the fact that the job is in Ottawa, I guess there's worse places to spend a summer.  If I do get through the interview (which I can easily do if I want to), the security clearance will take a while, and if I don't clear any part of it, that's a lot of time wasted that I should have spent looking for a different job.  I've never been one for tanking things just because I have doubts though, and who knows what other opportunities could arise from that placement.  I guess we'll just go with it and see what happens.

 I finally got sick of my computer being slow, so on my way home last night I bought a 100G hard drive and swapped it out for the 40G that was in my laptop.  This saved a lot of backup time, since I can just use the 40G as a data drive now.  Having 250% as much space as before, and having it run SMOOTH is very pleasing.

 Finals are approaching uncomfortably fast.  The fact that I've been doing a lot of things at work that are directly out of 204 is helpful, but I'm starting to get stressed out about it.  Work hasn't been easy this term.  It's been good, but challenging (which I like, but induces stress).  I have to get PCDEP done too, that needs to be finished soon.  I don't think anyone is around this weekend, so maybe I'll just code the whole weekend. 

 I am concerned also about a message I got earlier this week from a friend of mine who shall remain nameless who said she had a big problem and needed to talk to me as soon as possible.  It didn't sound good, so I get to find out what's going on there on Friday, hopefully nothing terrible has occurred.

Probably the massive intake of caffeine that I incur at work isn't helping things.  I'm working on about 6 hours sleep a night, so I'm probably accumulating a sleep debt, I definitely feel more tired in the mornings than I did two months ago.  Tomorrow will probably be a late night, so I think I'll crash early tonight.

There's a feeling of decisions to be made in the air.