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This is me continuing to feel very excited and challenged about all the wonderful projects I have to complete:

Tonight, I get to throw together a four-page professional looking data display. Tomorrow night, I get to do the same with a 20-minute Powerpoint tutorial. I’ll also be working, of course.

Talk to ya next month. *grin*

I’ve spent the last week lost in homework. Between figuring out how to write a testing plan for a usability test, designing a PowerPoint tutorial about CSS, writing a faux report for a school board, and writing poems and short stories for both of my ‘easy’ classes, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Add to that the fact that I’ve got to sign up for my GRE’s really soon and I’m working two part-time jobs, and I’m feeling very overwhelmed.

Or, as one of my professors requires me to say, I’m feeling very excited and challenged.

So, anyways, that’s why I haven’t been updating. Please bear with me. For those of you who feel like you need something to read, M’ris is back in her proper place up north, and she’s updating enough for the both of us. I’ll let her pull my dead weight for a while. :)

In case anyone out there was worried, Megan and I made it home just fine tonight.

We spent the evening with Renée, Eric and Jake in Ankeny, partying, hanging out, and having a generally good time. It was Jake’s (Eric’s little brother, for those of you playing at home) 18th birthday, which officially makes him old enough to do all sorts of fun things, up to and including dying for his country. Eric went to bed early, and Renée followed him shortly thereafter, so Megan and I made like trees and left (leaved?).

Anyways, we made it home fine. So if you weren’t worried then, now is no time to start. :)

However, I’ve nearly an infinite amount of homework to do in the morning (it’s been exponentially increasing and I can no longer tell the endpoint from infinity), so wish me all sorts of luck.

I’m starting my new job tonight at 5:30. :) This has both positive and negative aspects. The positive part is that I need the money, and this will provide me with said money. The negative part is, I didn’t have spare time to begin with, and this just reduced it by twenty or so hours a week. Plus, my average day will now span from 6am to 10:30pm with no breaks for meals.

I doubt I’ll get a chance to update again until much later in the week. I’ve got a couple of major projects coming up, plus I’ve got a midterm Thursday.

Tomorrow should be fun, though. M’ris and company are driving through the area on their way to their new house, and they are stopping in Ames to have lunch with Megan and I. Nice, no? I’m sure one of us will remember to take a picture, should the occasion arise (though I hear Timprov is camera shy).

Wish me luck!

Ladies, Lads, and general gentlepersons: Google is poised to take over the world.

For those of you who don’t know what Google is… well, nevermind. The reality of it is, if you can find this site, you know what Google is. Google is everywhere. Google is so popular, it has become a verb. Just last Tuesday I heard it used on WB’s Gilmore Girls as a verb (ie, “let’s go Google him”), proving it’s considered mainstream enough to be a part of our popular culture. We’ll leave the fact that I’m addicted to Gilmore Girls for another discussion. :)

You can find what you’re looking for with Google. I’m convinced it doesn’t even matter ~what~ you’re looking for. Google can find it. Period.

Most of you are probably most familiar with good old traditional Google, which finds the website you’re looking for in under three seconds. Another favorite is Google Images, which scours the net for pics of any and every sort. There’s also Google News, which looks through thousands of news sites for new stories, looking for the most relevant (and prevalent) ones. For those cost-minded consumers out there, I’d also suggest using Froogle (which is still in Beta testing) to search the web for the lowest prices on whatever you’re in the market for. But recently, Google has topped themselves: they’ve invented the Calculator.

Yes, yes, I know calculators exists. I’m not talking about calculators. I’m talking about the Calculator, with a big-ol’ capital letter out front letting the world know how cool it really is. It is, in part, a calculator. Go to Google, type ‘76*3943′ into the search box, and it will let you know the answer (299,668). However, it does more than that. It converts, too. Try typing ‘150kph in mph’ into the search box. It’ll convert units for you. I just found out that 3,000 square feet is roughly .0668 acres (query: 3000 square feet in acres). Yesterday, I found out that there are 48 teaspoons in a cup (query: number of teaspoons in a cup). How did I live before without knowing that?

So. Google can find the website, image, product, or calculation you are looking for. Google can automatically sort the daily news, making sure you’ve always got the most relevant information. Rumors are even flying that Google is running for governor of California. The time draws neigh when we will bow to Lord Google and offer our homage. And I, for one, welcome our new dark overlord. *g*