Apple's done it again. They've updated the iPod nano, introduced iTV and a brand new iPod Shuffle. And best of all...
They've sexed up iTunes.
MmmmmmHmmmmmm.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Make It Stopppppp
Seriously, I'm drowning in academics. Drowning. Has it always been this insane at ASU, and I'm only noticing it now because of the contrast with Germany? Or is this semester just one of those insane semesters?
Friday, September 8, 2006
Fridays are Awesome.
This morning we went to IKEA and managed to walk out spending less than $150. I am proud of myself. The biggest item on my list was a $60 bookcase, which was sorely needed. You can only use those cheap wire cube things for so long before they begin to go south on you. I also invested in a much-needed extra lamp and a nightstand. I am very pleased with how amazing the room looks now:
As if the day couldn't get any better, I went and met with my advisors to ask about graduation and thesis stuff. Turns out the thesis deadline is "soft" - meaning they really don't care WHEN I turn it in. Meaning I have all the time I need now to get the topic, and the director, sorted out. HUGE sigh of relief. Also, should it be necessary, I can always start the thesis work in the spring and defend it in the summer. And there's also a great chance that even though I won't be done with everything until summer session, I can appeal the dean to be able to walk in the graduation ceremonies this spring.
(Hallelujah chorus)
What a great Friday. I should go out and paint the town tonight.
As if the day couldn't get any better, I went and met with my advisors to ask about graduation and thesis stuff. Turns out the thesis deadline is "soft" - meaning they really don't care WHEN I turn it in. Meaning I have all the time I need now to get the topic, and the director, sorted out. HUGE sigh of relief. Also, should it be necessary, I can always start the thesis work in the spring and defend it in the summer. And there's also a great chance that even though I won't be done with everything until summer session, I can appeal the dean to be able to walk in the graduation ceremonies this spring.
(Hallelujah chorus)
What a great Friday. I should go out and paint the town tonight.
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Pack the Good and leave the rest
Supply chain management was awesome this morning and Eddie gets cool points for talking about German manufacturing in detail. I'm hoping we have the makings of a good thesis director or at least a reader here. Meeting with Eddie tomorrow will determine that.
Thesis topic is going moderately well in refining. Email to contact at T-Mobile has gone out, and if all goes well there will be an informational interview via telephone on Friday. Hopefully further success is forthcoming.
I'm finally used to the new Facebook News Feed revision, and I have to say that I like it. Call me a stalker, I LIKE seeing every little dirty detail of your lives, people. It's cool. Saves a lot of time that would have been spent aimlessly wandering your profile pages.
I've been buoyed all day today daydreaming about living/working in Germany at some big corporation. I think that's a sign that I'm a nerdy business major and a complete Germanyphile. And I love it. I love that feeling of having a "second home" that I know I'm totally comfortable in - and it's not even on the same continent. That just rocks. I miss it, yes, but it's awesome being back in the U.S. of A and on campus too.
Met with Lucia and Adrienne for coffee today at the business college Starbucks (yes, our business college has its own Starbucks. We rock that hard). Hilarious conversation topic about the pretentiousness of the W.P. Carey School's courtyard atmosphere, which, again, just shows you how hard we business majors rock. I always wanna walk through there with my cell phone to my ear and saying, "Look, I'll have my people talk to your people . . ."
And as if the day couldn't go any more slendidly, there is now a group on Facebook entitled "Angela Merkel rocks my world." I think it's supposed to be a joke but I joined anyway because she seriously rocks my world. She is awesome. Wooo Merkel.
Thesis topic is going moderately well in refining. Email to contact at T-Mobile has gone out, and if all goes well there will be an informational interview via telephone on Friday. Hopefully further success is forthcoming.
I'm finally used to the new Facebook News Feed revision, and I have to say that I like it. Call me a stalker, I LIKE seeing every little dirty detail of your lives, people. It's cool. Saves a lot of time that would have been spent aimlessly wandering your profile pages.
I've been buoyed all day today daydreaming about living/working in Germany at some big corporation. I think that's a sign that I'm a nerdy business major and a complete Germanyphile. And I love it. I love that feeling of having a "second home" that I know I'm totally comfortable in - and it's not even on the same continent. That just rocks. I miss it, yes, but it's awesome being back in the U.S. of A and on campus too.
Met with Lucia and Adrienne for coffee today at the business college Starbucks (yes, our business college has its own Starbucks. We rock that hard). Hilarious conversation topic about the pretentiousness of the W.P. Carey School's courtyard atmosphere, which, again, just shows you how hard we business majors rock. I always wanna walk through there with my cell phone to my ear and saying, "Look, I'll have my people talk to your people . . ."
And as if the day couldn't go any more slendidly, there is now a group on Facebook entitled "Angela Merkel rocks my world." I think it's supposed to be a joke but I joined anyway because she seriously rocks my world. She is awesome. Wooo Merkel.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
I'm Either Crazy or Brilliant. Or Both.
I still don't have a thesis topic. I have wracked my brain trying to figure out what on EARTH I could research and write about in the realm of business or German that would, as the professor I talked with put it, "get my juices flowing."
And then, tonight, while sitting at Starbucks brainstorming, I had an idea.
Why not write a fiction novel? We're allowed to do pretty much anything we want with the thesis project. I could try and get it published at the end of the year, and honestly, when else am I going to have a chance to set aside huge blocks of my time to write like this? Certainly not after I graduate and dive into the real world. I could come up with a premise, write a book proposal, and the meetings with my director would serve as deadlines for chapters and drafts and outlines and brainstorming and editing. For the final touch, I go to a publisher. It's just crazy enough that it might work.
The most encouraging thing about this idea is that the moment it came to me, I shot up straight in my chair (nearly knocking over my coffee in the process) and started scribbling ideas in the notebook in front of me that, up to this point, had a list of halfhearted thesis topic ideas on it.
Christian Fiction. A thriller, like Ted Dekker's stuff.
Historical Fiction. Set in Germany. World War II.
I rushed home and pounded out a draft email to a professor in the English department, who I will contact tomorrow. This is one of those moments in life where you realize
a) you've finally snapped under the weight of all the stress and totally lost your mind (a novel from scratch to publishing in 9 months??) or
b) you've just had the best idea you've had in a loooooong time.
And then, tonight, while sitting at Starbucks brainstorming, I had an idea.
Why not write a fiction novel? We're allowed to do pretty much anything we want with the thesis project. I could try and get it published at the end of the year, and honestly, when else am I going to have a chance to set aside huge blocks of my time to write like this? Certainly not after I graduate and dive into the real world. I could come up with a premise, write a book proposal, and the meetings with my director would serve as deadlines for chapters and drafts and outlines and brainstorming and editing. For the final touch, I go to a publisher. It's just crazy enough that it might work.
The most encouraging thing about this idea is that the moment it came to me, I shot up straight in my chair (nearly knocking over my coffee in the process) and started scribbling ideas in the notebook in front of me that, up to this point, had a list of halfhearted thesis topic ideas on it.
Christian Fiction. A thriller, like Ted Dekker's stuff.
Historical Fiction. Set in Germany. World War II.
I rushed home and pounded out a draft email to a professor in the English department, who I will contact tomorrow. This is one of those moments in life where you realize
a) you've finally snapped under the weight of all the stress and totally lost your mind (a novel from scratch to publishing in 9 months??) or
b) you've just had the best idea you've had in a loooooong time.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Visions of Tuebingen
The final video chronicling the year in Tübingen is finally finished. Without further ado, here it is:
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