The nice thing about working during the week is that the same thing happens all the time so I don't have to worry about writing in my livejournal during the week, there is nothing to remember. However, Thursday, I went to the State Department to see a guy to whom Secretary Welcher reffered me. He is a PhD scientist who works at the State Department ( Read more... )

Parents came Friday night. We ate at the Landini Brothers. I may have had the best Salmon ever. Nothing particularly fascinating to report, they stopped at Ben & Jerry's. Saturday morning I sat outside on the porch with mom and then we went to P&C Bank and I opened a checking account, it was kind of a big deal and I sat with the manager for a while ( Read more... )

Went to two happy hours last week. Tuesday, went with some folks from Geopol mostly to the Science Club. Goodbye drinks to a girl I had never talked to. It was nice to meet people I see every day. Thursday went to Clarendon to the  Ballroom. The phi taus were there, met some girls Jackson knew (through Ann Ledford) and a guy who couldn't shed tears ( Read more... )

I am so sad, I heard on NPR yesterday that Jane Jacobs has died, well, she was in her 80s and unlikely to produce much more work, but she has been one of my favourite 'intellectual' writers recently. Nobody knows who she is except for urban planners and a few geographers. We didn't officially study her at Oxford but I came across her tangentially ( Read more... )

Oh, what to write. I worked out in the gym of K Street some this week. Had a really stressful report I was working on, ended up being my responsibility, when it was not entirely supoposed to be. Somebody got angry, but everyone realized it was everyone's lack of communication and a new situation, so it is alright now. Today was the last day for ( Read more... )

It was great seeing (five!) fraternity brothers last night. They were: Jackson, Ben, Aaron, Brian and his fiancee. I went to the upstairs bar and chatted with the bartender before I met them. That upstairs bar is nice, with a long window behind the bar - a nice place to get a beer after work at sunset. I felt kind of silly for not wanting to ( Read more... )

OK, so Monday started at Stratfor, signed some stuff, etc... the VP told me to keep them in mind when I am looking for a job (I don't know how to comprehend this given the last six months). Anyway, it looks like I could be on an analyst track and I was invited to an analyst breakfast tomorrow morning. Can't tell you what we do but most of my time ( Read more... )

OK, so after convincing myself I didn't want to work at Stratfor because they didn't call by the end of the week in which I interviewed, they contacted me Thursday and I am going in Monday. I am afraid that they were looking at someone else and that didn't go through and I am the second, or maybe third best! I don't know if they liked me or not. ( Read more... )

Well I have a good feeling I will get some sort of job at Stratfor. When I called up a VP he was very casual, wanted to know when I could start working and said I called at the right time. It would be a better than expected job if I could get in. I am not exactly sure what the job is, but anything with that group is fine. I went to the office today ( Read more... )

I went to the Alexandria library Monday to do some serious study of Chinese and it paid off because I was the most prepared for class ... well one girl has a job and is pregnant, another girl is at Georgetown Law School and another works for the Advisory Board. There were lots of black folks sleeping in the library, maybe three or four while I was ( Read more... )