Still Waiting

Well I am still waiting on some news from TRAM. They told me 2 weeks, but I was really hoping to hear sooner. I guess I will just keep on waiting.

I don't want to get my hopes up because if I don't get the job, it will just make it harder to keep the job search going without feeling totally discouraged. But then again I do want to be hopeful and excited about it because I do have a chance at getting the job. Getting the job would just be perfect right now. Tony and I could move back to Ann Arbor and we could get started on the life we want to spend together.

On Friday Tony has his formal interview with Flint Fire Department. I am PRAYING that he gets this job (maybe even a little more than I am praying that I get my job). He told me last night that if he gets the job then "We should start planning out wedding." It was so cute. I love him and I'm super excited for our wedding (even though it's more than a year away).

Right now I am hanging out at home waiting for the Comcast person to get here to service the cable DVR box. It doesn't work. Sad day. This person was supposed to be here at 12... it's going on one and they still aren't here. I guess I don't really have any reason to complain because I doubt that I would have been doing anything else today... Such is life.

No plans for tonight... I really want to start on a blog template for this blog... or maybe a new one.. haven't decided if I want to close this chapter yet; I still feel like I belong in the "college student blog" that I've made these past few years. Perhaps if I get the job then I will start a new "real world Jordan" blog. I have no idea.

Well that is it for now.
-JRA
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Summer

I feel like summer if officially here. I think that Memorial Day has always signified summer to me, that and Home Town Days. Home Town Days is next weekend and I can already feel the Swartz Creek High School Class of 06 Reunion that will go on next weekend! HaHa. As much as I say that I will hate it, I am looking forward to it a little.

My weekend was nice. It was hot all weekend. Tony had the whole weekend off. We watched a lot of movies, ate ice cream, laughed and rode around on my grandma's golf cart. SUMMER!

I should update you with the happenings of my life since graduation I suppose. Nothing had really happened. Just went out with my friends quite a few times, spent time with Tony, programmed, attempted to start a blog template, and played the Sims 3. Soooo not productive. In the middle of all this I have applied for about 019383810 jobs.

Surprisingly one day after shopping at Target (well actually just wandering around at Target) I got a phone call from a recruiter at TRAM, Inc. I called them back and he set up a phone interview for me the next day. Phone interviews make me ill.

Anyway I had the phone interview and things seemed like they went nicely. He told me he'd get back to me within the next week. So a week goes by and nothing. Then 2 days after a week I get another phone call from them. The HR person asks me if I would be available for a face to face interview the next day at 3 pm. Of course I accepted.

Next day I drive myself down to Plymouth, MI and have a face to face interview with 4 people. It seemed like it went well, however I haven't heard anything. The HR person said that he would get back with me either way in a week to 2 weeks. Tomorrow it will have been a week. Anticipation is killing me. I really do want the job, but I don't want to get my hopes up like I have so many times before, so I'm just sort of trying to keep it out of my mind. It's crazy.

If I do end up getting the job(fingers crossed) Tony and I are going to move back down to Ann Arbor. It all just seems too perfect and that's why I'm worried about it. I mean to move back to Ann Arbor would be my dream. I love that city more than I ever thought I would and I would LOVE to live there. I intend to, but I never imagined that it would be so sudden. (PRAYING it will be sudden).

Over all though, life has been very relaxing. I really am enjoying my summer and it's not turning out as "horrid" as I thought moving home would be. The only weird part is I feel as if I have jumped back to like 10th grade. So weird.

-JRA


for today, good bye; for tomorrow, good luck; and forever, GO BLUE!

I am offically a University of Michigan graduate. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering. And I will forever be a Michigan Wolverine.

Graduation was amazing. I honestly didn't expect it to be so exciting. In February when it was announced that President Obama was going to be delivering the commencement address I was extatic. I mean the PRESIDENT is going to be praising me for becoming a graduate of one of the most prestegious universities in the United States. I believe this was the point in my college career when I realized how privledged I was to be going to Michigan and graduating in 2010.


Seeing Obama walk onto the stage was a rush. It was just amazing to see him in real life. I have never seen a president and they always just seem like some figment of TV land. But he was there, 8 rows in front of me, a REAL person. It just solidified in my mind that he's a person and is real and is trying his very hardest to make this country a better place for you and I to reside. It made life seem more meaningful and it inspired me to do something. Big or small.

Engineering graduation was awesome too. I got to spend some times with my gEECS girls and say goodbye. We are all going our seperate ways (most of us home in search of SOMETHING?). They were always my rock in EECS. We had each other's back and we made up a majority of the 4 percent women in the EECS population. I will definetly miss them! :)


Now life changes. Not sure what to make of it. I'm feeling young again being back in my parents house. I'm hoping to get a place with Tony soon. I'm really worried that nothing is ever going to go the way I'm planning however. I just don't want to get my hopes up and then never get it and feel like shit because I was so excited for something to happen. (story of my life)

Grad School, here I come. :)