It’s been damn hot around here the past two weeks; everyday over 90 degrees out there, and I have to walk at least 5-7 minutes one way to get to my car at a surface parking lot for work. I don’t usually sweat much. In fact, 80 degree is my perfect temperature. Yet now I am alway sweating from walking and walking and walking.. Damn the weather.

Company parking lot is huge. Not as big as Disneyland or Magic Mountain parking lot, but pretty big as a surface parking lot. It’s as big as some shopping malls, except longer aisles, with no trees and no shades, and constant construction going on right next to it. The noice and, dust clearly does not add any pleasure in parking there.

As if that is not enough, the parking lot is always 90% full by 9am every work day. That can explain part of the reasons why I need to walk so far. But with such a huge lot, you would expect big spaces? NO! Most of them are compact spots that a mini van or truck can easily step on both sides of the lines. My solara has huge doors unfortunately, which makes parking at tight spots even more painful… If it’s difficult for me to get out, you know the space is tight…

I think I will just blame the weather…

Count down to 3 days till the last day in Adcom. =)

I’ve been busy with all the transition and cross-training. Meetings after meetings. I have never met with so many people so frequently in such a short period of time, ever. I sometimes think, why can’t they just chill? What’s the big rush? I was handed the projects long ago with minimal instruction, I am sure everybody can figure those things out.

I guess it is their mentality that I know a lot a lot made me valuable. Otherwise I am just as easily replacable as a student programmer. What I learned the most from participating in a project was the business process, user habit, outstanding problems, and user concerns, not the technical side. Technical stuff is easy to train and pick up anyways.

It is a little scary to think that I am going to toss away all my valuable business knowledge of the projects I have been involved in for years, and start something brand new and unknown. Scary…

Work has been wonderful. I am getting things done consistently, feeling productive and useful. But at the same time, I am getting behind in terms of class work.

It doesn’t have anything to do with work work, I guess. I was already slacking off even when work wasn’t so busy a month ago… Now everything has accumulated itself to be something that I can’t handle any more. I dropped a class last week, and now with the pressure of another midterm tonight, I am wondering if I should drop this class as well.

I am not doing terribly bad. After all, the homework will be only 20%. Yet today’s midterm will weight 40%, which I have no confidence in doing well. It’s a useful class. However, I am simply overwhelmed by all the information and processes in class. I feel sick sometimes, when I think about the class and homework.

Should I drop it? I still have 2 hours to consider.