Catching up on life

Well, it's certainly been a while. My company released the latest version of its product yesterday. My life for the last month had been living hell up until Saturday, when we got everything done. It wasn't bad enough that I did 16 hour days for the last two weeks (including on the President's day holiday). No, I topped it off by showing up to work last Thursday morning at 10:00 and not leaving work (except for an hour shower break) until Saturday around 5:00 PM. Now you're probably thinking to yourself, where did Karl sleep? But that would be assuming that I did sleep, which is a mighty big assumption. As a matter of fact, I took a 2 hour nap Friday morning, and an hour nap Saturday morning. Besides being might cranky after waking up from the Saturday nap, I think I fared pretty well. Of course, then I slept a total of 13 hours Saturday night to make up for things. But hey, now I can relax a little and take some vacation in a few weeks.

To reward us for this past month, my company gave all of the development team mini-iPods on Monday. Usually they get us something, like jackets or shirts, for major milestones like this. This year it was mini-iPods. It's an extraordinary gesture, but I'm in much less of a position to appreciate it. I mean, why do I want a little gold thing with an Apple on it polluting my house? Besides, my PocketPC plays music just fine. Although my PocketPC isn't as small and doesn't have as much disk space. But it can play (good) games, give me GPS directions, connect to the internet anywhere and everywhere, and sync up all my appointments. So I'm thinking if I have a choice between carrying a PocketPC and an iPod, the PocketPC wins out. But I hate to seem ungrateful. Anyone want to buy an iPod for a somewhat discounted price?

Speaking of PocketPCs, I had to trade the replacement in—the screen was all buggy. So my new replacement works just nicely. Plus, they sent me one with a newer chipset (255 instead of 250). Which was kind of inconvenient, since you can't do a restore to a newer chipset.

As for law school applications (yes, I'm applying to law school, despite the fact that I don't think I've mentioned this before. But with an LSAT score of 168, having not even studied for the test, I figure I'll give it a shot. I'm bored of my job). I heard back from Texas, Georgetown, and BYU last month (which was like really really quick--less than 2 week turnaround time), and I'm accepted to all of them. I'm thinking BYU is right out, but Texas and Georgetown are neck and neck. Meanwhile, I'm holding out for Harvard or Berkeley or RAND. Apparently since they're harder to get into, they take their sweet time getting back to you. It may be another month and a half before I hear from them. Sigh. I'm also starting to get a bit concerned about finances. I filled out some financial aid applications, and I'm afraid the fact that I've had a job for the last three years might work against me. Plus I had to show my parent's income because Harvard requires you to do so unless you've been independent for 7 years (I've only been independent for 5).

On the athletic front, it's almost frisbee season again. I'm feeling almost entirely injury free (after may false starts), so I'll be restarting my workout program with the goal of leaving BYU with an intramural championship. We've got a really stacked team this spring (assuming I'm healthy), so it shouldn't be too hard. A bunch of us got tired of spreading the good players thin in the name of competitive balance, and then watching a bunch of guys who know nothing about frisbee win purely on athleticism.

And as for dating, well despite how busy I am, I've been seeing a few people. There's one girl I'm seeing a lot of (even took her out on Valentine's). But I can't decide if I'm interested in her or not.

So that's life. I'm sure there's tons of other stuff going on that I'm not mentioning (e.g. family and such), but there's no time to account for it. Just gotta press on.

Posted March 01, 2004 (10:22 PM) | Comments (1)