Kiran

11:09 pm: Change
I need to find a new apartment. But I'm too lazy. At least I've already told my complex that I'm not coming back, so thats a step in the right direction.

I need to find other things. But I'm too lazy. Haven't even tried.

09:54 am: Validated
I wonder a lot if I made the right decision. By decision, I mean all of the big ones . Like for the past 7.5 years.

Its funny how something relatively simple vindicates and validates you.

11:24 pm: Disgusting
Its a daily struggle to stay neat. My apartment is so disorganized. My desk at work is strewn with random crap. I just don't care, about anything really.

Spend all night cleaning my apartment? Go to the office in the morning and do the same ... maybe ...

07:22 pm: Fate, redux
Then again.

There are a ton of things that are out of our control.

Maybe there is fate. Its sometimes comforting to believe that there is a higher power up there. Giving and taking, and such.

Sometimes its all we have, a little faith in fate.

04:45 pm: Fate?
I don't believe in fate.

You are given the ability and the opportunity to get what you need. If you really need it, there is a way.

That is sort of a tautology. Defining needs by what is available.

So lets try that again.

Anything that can be said "it was fate", is really just (to me) someone making a logical fallacy.

Like for instance lottery winners : "it was one in 80 million, I was lucky and it was fate that I won". NO, SORRY. Someone gets to be the one, even though everyone's odds are terrible!

Or: "it was fate that I found X!! " (X being a person, job, the proverbial brass ring, your long lost uncle, etc.)

An opportunity came, you had the ability to get it, and the desire to actually do something about it. In fact the opportunity only came because you had the ability to put yourself in the right place, go back a few levels. At some point you reach a butterfly effect though (if I hadn't built that sandcastle when I was 13, I wouldn't have met Bill Clinton).

For instance:

This job. I got this exxon job because:

I had lots of interviews before hand, so I was cool and collected when I came to Fairfax. I had all these interviews on campus (including XOM) because I went to Purdue and had a good GPA. I had a good GPA because I'm a great test taker. Thanks to decathlon. I joined decathlon because I'm clever and competitive (my abilities). I went to Purdue because its in state, and was a great engineering school. I stayed instate because I'm cheap.

So because I'm a clever competitive cheapskate (this whole post is an excuse to get to that alliteration) I'm here today.

So not fate. (yes I skipped a lot more little steps in that, but this is just a thought. And excuse for alliteration

09:33 pm: Purdue
I went to Purdue a few weeks ago.

It was great.

I miss college.

10:49 pm: No longer a big fish.
I'm going to post here a little more often.

Its not like a ton of people come through here, but you know its nice to type.

Last week was a hectic week of work. The most productive of the new year. Which feels good.

So often I feel like the proverbially big fish in a little pond (back in e-town) that moved to the lake (Purdue) and was still a big fish. So I got cocky and moved to the frickin' ocean and I might just get eaten. I'm generally lost and dazed and confused at work, about a lot of things.

Its my own fault. I was able to direct my energies where and when I wanted them in E-town. I was able to turn it up 'to eleven' when necessary at Purdue to save myself. Here I feel like I can't even find out how to turn it on.

Working here is good for me though. Life is too short to never get burned.

02:13 am: should post
I haven't posted in a long time.


I work for ExxonMobil.

03:00 pm: The bigger they are ...
The more they F****** want to hire me!!!!!

I have a job offer from ExxonMobil. Largest. Most Profitable. Company. Ever.

I have a job offer from Arcelor Mittal. Which is the largest steel company in world.


So that was my problem all along. I was messing around with the little guys.







I officially kick ass.

09:56 am: Back from Buffalo
I went to Buffalo Sunday and Monday for Praxair.
I went to Fairfax, VA a couple weeks ago for ExxonMobil.

Hopefully I'll get a job soonish.

Eh,

K G

06:13 pm: ExxonMobil !!
I have an onsite interview with ExxonMobil in a couple of weeks.

Makes my fricking day.

Kiran gets to fly to DC!!!

I guess I don't hate interviews that much.

12:10 am: I fricking hate ...
I hate interview bullshit.

I hate the fact that I won't get a job offer from a major corporation, because my interview skills are very very poor. A 'great' interview for me, is average for ... well average people. And well one has to be decidedly above average to have a shot.

Worst of all ... I don't see any chance at salvation. I just have to hope that I can get lucky TWICE, with the same company.

Ugh ...

Interviews are going to kill me.

01:23 am: Interview-licious
I've had lots and lots of interview this week. And in the past couple weeks:

ATK, Shell, Praxair, BP, IBM, Caterpillar, Halliburton ... before today.

Air Liquide, ExxonMobil, Armstrong World Industries ... today.

Samsung, Rohm & Haas, Exelon Nuclear ... tomorrow.

More next week.

Thats the nice thing about going to Purdue. Horribly large companies ... come here to interview us.

09:49 pm: Updating
I like never update because ... no one ever comments

Actually its more like the fact that I'm very very lazy. Frigteningly lazy.

I have a couple interviews this week, which is stellar.

I out to be doing work.

08:19 pm: Job!
I got a job.

I'll be working at Mittler Supply this summer in southern South Bend. Sure I'll be making a dollar less an hour than last summer, and driving 3 times as far. However this job seems way more rewarding and I'll feel a hell of a lot more useful. I won't feel like I'm rotting like I did at Geocel. I'll be doing the lab technician work of a lady who will be going on maternity leave.

It'll get me out of Elkhart consistently enough. Thats cool.

So I feel a lot lot better.

11:34 pm: Spring!
Its officially spring.

Wow!

I am still without a job for the summer, looks like I'll be stuck working in a factory ... that'll be depressing.

So Break ... was entertaining.

Went to Michigan City, had a little side trip that night to Allendale via Bridgman.

Went to Maple Cafe and McNaughton Park, had some quality Hipshear time. Drove home in the rain with froggies in the road.

Had a Grolsch with Nik, spent Sunday out and about with my sis. Went to the 'steak and shake'.

Spent a significant amount of time failing at job whoring. More steak and shake, visited Nik at the IUSB library and watched some A & E on Napolean. Bonaparte kicks ass!

Got some new tires on the car, its a lot happier.

Thursday I went to Kalamazoo and talked to their biz school and then up to Nora. Friday I went downtown to talk at the GVSU biz school ... yeah going straight to getting my MBA is probably not a good idea. I'm going to have to get a real job after graduation.

Ate some Ethiopian food, went to Peppino's for someone's birthday. got a hair cut. Bought some Crown Royal snifters. I love lamp.

01:24 pm: Concerning February the thirteenth
On 2-13-06 I took two exams. One in a chemical engineering class at 7:20 in the morning. The other in an elective at 7 at night. Two exam mondays are usually no fun.

I aced both exams that day.

Evidently February thirteenth was one of the greatest days in my life. Just wish I had known it at the time.

Spring semesters are so so much better than fall semesters.

Sad how something like that, pretty much made the month for me.






P.S. February the thirteenth happens to also have been a semi-anniversary of one of the other great days in my life. Funny how those things work.

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06:43 pm: Garrison
I lost my post about the weekend.

Nora came down here.
We saw Garrison Keillor, we ate at the Akropolis. Went to goodwill, and I bought some bitchin' plates. Had some triple X.

Good times.

I hungry.

08:24 pm: Break
Break was wonderful. Well sort of.

Got ditched at the beginning.
Went to Chicago, I likey the Sci&Ind Museum.
Went to Benton Harbor and ate at IHOP.
Went to Church, oddly enough.
Played pool on Christmas.
Ice skating.
Went to a party at Tonys.
Parents had an anniversary.
They dragged me to Chicago.
New Years at the Egginks then the Catalinos
Went to Kalamazoo for a movie
Went bowling
Ate at a pretty cool sandwich shop in Delphi
Kalamazoo again at the end of break, to go to a museum and such

fun times!