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Gradumicated
May 23, 2007 ( grad )
I went through all the "fun" ceremony of graduation last weekend. Being GWU, however, the ceremony does not confer graduation status, as they haven't picked through all the records and requirements yet. They saw fit to remind us about this on every piece of documentation, including, tackily enough, the printed program itself.
So, barring incompetence on my part of GWU's, I'll get confirmation sometime in June. I've decided that GWU tries to train its students to work with the government on meta-levels by throwing slowness, bullheadedness and sheer paper-chasing bureaucracy at them at every option.
In June I transition to full time at my current employer, which could be fine for the time being, provided that I can detangle myself from the reactive stance part-time + random disasters have forced on me. Seriously - since Feb:
*Our Exchange server lost a hard drive went down, exposing also incomplete backups and poorly set-up RAID configurations, it was never fully recovered, causing loosing permanently 2 weeks of email and 2 months of hassles in fixing settings to get it to send properly.
*Our firewall melted, causing Internet to drop every few minutes
*One of the UPS batteries died
*Our Big Event of the year has happened
*The website transition to a new CMS site - it's gone as well as any transition of such scale could go, really. Had there not been constant other problems, it'd've been a bit more calm
Anyhow, once I'm fulltime I hope to control all that easier and try to get away from just being the IT guy, and get proactive in looking for ICT - in -Dev type things I can do through my job.
My GF (A) will be in China for most of the summer, leaving me to find other ways to occupy myself. I'm going to try to get into better shape (spring semesters suck, and the winter didn't help either), and get re-involved with Esperanza, seeing what I can do with them remotely. I'm not sure how much time I'll have to take off to parts unknown, but I am feeling the Itch to get out of the country for a while. A is presenting at a conference in India in the early fall, and we're pondering a pre-con trip there.
Posted by griffjon at May 23, 2007 08:33 PM
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