Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Kentucky Fried Ohio

I went to Kentucky over memorial day weekend to visit some friends, although it's more like I went to Ohio because they live just outside Cincinnati. The drive down was fairly uneventful and long (about 12 hours) although we went the wrong direction in Cincinnati, but I had my GPS and it gave us another route that was about the same distance. Friday night after a baseball game there were fireworks in Cincinnati, which you can see the entire skyline from their apartment.

On saturday our friend Holly had to work, but she works in a museum and so we went and she showed us around for most the day. The museum is supposed to be one of the top 100 most interesting buildings in the world or something (it's actually in like the top 50). That night we went out and walked around town a bit. Sunday we went to a park and rented paddle boats. After we drove around Cincinnati for a while and they showed us around.

Something interesting about Kentucky is they apparently opened the creationist museum where they claim the earth is really only about 6 thousand years old and humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs. Apparently we "harnessed" their power!! It amuses me (more in a sad way) that they refer to it as creation "science"...

Anyway, we came back yesterday, another 12 hour drive, and then I got to drive another three more to Duluth! I almost got stuck in Rochester too... When we got there my car wouldn't start, the alternator is dead or something, so I didn't make it back until about two in the morning. It was a long day.

I still haven't started work... Everything is approved, I just have to fill out paper work. I wa s supposed to do it today, but supposedly the hr person is busy today and tomorrow doing payroll... So I'll get to do it Thursday, or else!!

written at 3:38 PM
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Jobs

Well, although I technically have a job, apparently there's some issues finding the money to pay me, so we'll see if that works itself out. I had another interview today, and that went pretty well. So between that and one or two other jobs (plus few more that are interested in interviewing me) I'm pretty sure I'll be okay.

written at 2:36 PM
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Relief?

Well school is out... and I have a job! It's actually only temporary, but they hope to make it permanent (it seems to me that if they want to make it permanent before they've even found someone that the chances are good). I'll be working for the College of Education and Human Service Professions and the University of Minnesota Duluth. I didn't actually "find" this job, it kind of fell in my lap. They were looking for someone to start right away and the right people mentioned me and then the next thing you know I'm starting a week and a half later. If it does become permanent, I'll have to apply and interview just like everyone else, but hopefully by then they'll love me so much they won't be able to let me go.

I'll be doing mostly database stuff. They have a stack of papers with important information on them that they want saved in a database. So my primary job will be to create a number of databases and load all sorts of data in them, either from an excel file or an export of another "database" such as access or file maker (neither of which are actually databases). They also have a lot of other stuff for me to do that I don't think they expected at first, like web apps. They asked me if it would be possible to make it so that students could log in an enter their own information on the web. That kind of threw me of off because I thought that was what they were looking for in the first place. So hopefully I'll impress them and this will turn out to be more permanent. It's a much better opportunity than I could have hopped for right after graduating.

written at 9:15 AM
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