"You're going the wrong way" said Mike Widmer. "I know - it's two o'clock and I'm out" was my reply. Home in the middle of the day to pick up a very late package and do some dishes, unload part of my backpack, grab a binder, and head back to school. It sounds a waste of time but when 2:00 until 3:30 are your 'evening' or 'discretionary time' it is quite a liberty to have some time at home.
Two times back I posted about career free fall. I learned at Aviation Challenge that you can pull out of free fall and that is what happened today. In a span of five or six minutes I picked up the two closed lists I really wanted and had really worked for, so all is looking good again. I'm actually sitting somewhat pretty at this point, with points aplenty to bid on three more projects, block a single one that I may finally decide I don't want, and go from there.
In the middays over the past week there has been a steady stream of free, ethnic food in the student lounge provided by the clubs representing students of the ethnicity of the food being served. Today was China. China = Big Time. If the Chinese constituents of Ross can do a buffet like they did today I can only imagine what the city of Beijing and country of China can do for the 2008 Olympic Summer Games. There's an intangible intense buzz surrounding China that the BRI portion of BRIC doesn't have; maybe it is momentum or the enormous looming bulk of potential prosperity that make China a 8,000 pound gorilla.
Monday, January 30, 2006