3.5.08

(one of these days i'll get a haircut)

there was not as much talk of goals this semester as last, so maybe it shouldn't surprise me that i look back at this semester and see much less drive on my part. maybe it should surprise me that things are still getting done. it could just be that my obstacles weren't as obnoxious or obvious. getting a visa is much less writing that a thesis, but the embassy and front desk staff at albert 1er were much more tricky than my committee. i was tired as anything after my interview at geico, but not like after the marathon. so maybe that makes this semester less intense. the other side of the hill, or something. and maybe i'll think of it differently later (and when it comes down to it maybe it's the other side of the valley. a steady, uphill climb out of winter opposing the harrowing [hand tense on the breaks] ride down in).

really i'm only half way there, at least in any official capacity. i got honors without incident on friday, but only a message from geico hr saying we had things to discuss. it seems positive, like every other indicator i've gotten from them, but nothing i can count on. i don't suppose companies are in the habit of leaving offers on voicemails. rejections too, for that matter.