Post Grad

This week is my last week of being productive... at least being required to be productive. Please don't get me wrong, I enjoy being productive. I like getting up in the morning and making my day worth while, however I do not enjoy the productivity that I've been forced to have since June 29th. Summer term classes end on Thursday and then I am on my own until September 8th. can't wait to have some ME time and have time to actually do all the things that I've wanted to do all summer. I really can't wait to have some time to decorate my apartment. However, I have very very little money, pretty much zero dollars, to decorate this place, and every thing that I like costs a lot of money. Looks like I'll be drawing art for my walls on the free newspapers that I get in the mail and hanging them with no frames. Maybe I should just leave my walls white.

This weekend felt like summer. It was hot, we went to my grandma's for dinner, Tony and I smiled, laughed and just were excited to be in the company of each other. It felt like summer. I felt free from responsibility and over all my life felt complete. I just haven't felt like that this summer. I guess its been because I have been working, researching and taking classes. I guess that's what happens. O well. I feel better now.

Speaking of research, our project is going VERY well. We got the serial wireless transmission system to work. Its flawless and beautiful. I never thought that I would call circuit boards beautiful, but really when we saw the messages we were sending show up across the room on the VGA monitor, man that was like the highlight of my entire summer. I felt complete. I have to be the biggest nerd on the face of the plannet... or does that make me a geek? I really don't know the difference between a nerd and a geek? O well. We are now going to get the camera system to work and life should be pretty stellar from there.

I found a job that I NEED. Its working for an engineering firm in Grosse Point and they are being contracted by an automotive company(scary i know), to create a wireless camera system for back up sensors and equipment. Pretty much the same project I've been working on all summer. Its a full time position with the company and they are hiring 12 people to fill the team(all electrical engineers). The position has a very nice salary of 98 to 120K a year dependent on experience and its entry level. So while I fit EVERY aspect of this job, the position starts Immediately and I have a year before I obtain that stupid piece of paper that is my EE degree. Such is life. some day some day.

Well I suppose I am going to take a power nap before I give my tour in the 120 degree humid heat. yippie.

Later
-JRA