Sorry I haven't been a good blogger this week. I've been very busy, but luckily I'm getting less sick. I've still got some cough and runny nose, but it's better every day. It was a long week, and yesterday was the longest day this week, which is rather unfair since it was Friday! However, it was not a bad day, and it could become significantly better some time towards the end of next week.
My first item for the day was an interview for an internship at KCLS. Preparation for the interview started Thursday evening, when I reviewed my application materials and ironed my shirt for the next day. I got up earlier than usual to make myself presentable and left the house at 8:15 for a 10:00 appointment. As it turns out, I was perfectly on time, which was nice. The interview was fairly easy, and I was surprisingly comfortable and not nervous at all. My ease of mind was probably a factor of pumping up my confidence beforehand, of looking and feeling good, and of the attitude of my interviewers, who laughed and joked with each other throughout the interview. I feel I gave good answers to the questions (mostly anecdotes about how I deal with various situations, and luckily I had anecdotes to tell!), and I even got to say that I thought my skills were a perfect for the job, which is a really nice plug when it fits naturally into the conversation, which it did. Anyway, they said the last interview is next week, so I should find out towards the end of next week, which is why Friday could get better retroactively. (It doesn't get worse even if I don't get the job, I think, because it was still a good interview, much better than I've had in the past.)
After the interview I took the bus back to Seattle (and managed to catch a transfer bus to the U-District with no wait time whatsoever), ate lunch, and gave an intermediate
HTML/accessibility/CSS workshop with my co-teacher Jenn. My part of the workshop unfortunately did not work as well as I had hoped; the exercise I had thought fairly clear was not clear at all. It was certainly a learning experience for me, probably more than for them! On the other hand, I didn't get stressed or frustrated like I sometimes do when things aren't working at all, with no hope of recovery. I will be interested to find out what comments people have for us, and I am motivated to make my eventual PHP workshop more successful and less confusing.
After the workshop, Jeff came by, and we went to the regional robotics competition, which was pretty interesting, even for a non-robotics geek like me. Then I headed back to Boiko's CM/XML class. The first lecture was about markup languages in general, so I knew almost all of it already. It wasn't uninteresting, but I was tired, so I started the lab during class and then didn't stay for the scheduled lab time.
I was creamed when I got home, but it was a successful day. I gave myself some good quality self-appreciation time, went to sleep, and slept for a very refreshing 10 hours.
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