So my week goes something like this:
Sunday night - work on a lab for 4 hours.
Monday morning - hard drive dies, work lost
Wednesday - finally get hard drive replacement, spend the day looking for and trying to use various downloaded versions of windows, with little help. finally get one working and spend the entire night reformatting my computer.

Also, an interesting note. if your hard drive dies of mechanical failure, there is one possible way to reclaim data. By putting it in the freezer, it is possibly that the contractions resultant in the metal parts will cause some broken joints to be reconnected, small parts to be moved back in place, ect. But you only have a good 10 minutes before it warms up and dies again, so make it count.
I liken it to reviving a dead person long enough to ask them one question.

Planning for Vegas

You'd think planning for a sweet spring break vacation would be easier. Months ago I call up friends, classmates, and acquaintances seeing who'd be down for going on a sweet trip for spring break. Most if not all seemed interested, even after the idea started swinging from driving to some beach to flying to Vegas cheep.
We found really cheep prices online, but still the idea seemed to grand for some and they began to drop. One by one my friends who were "totally in" on any trip and "so pumped" for Vegas, like with all events and trips you plan, will slowly realize you were serious.
Shit will start to pop up for them. "no dude I have a dentists appointment/jury duty/ lots of homework to do that week." Eventually from what was 7 or 8 solid friends becomes about two or three adventurers who actually do follow through on things.

I guess when you plan things like this, the ideas seem grand and cool when they're far away and unreal. but when they approach and you begin to plan to make them real, that's when most people flake. oh well, they'll regret it when I come back with the pictures.

So I'm preparing for the career fair for the next two days. Spicing up the resume, getting the suit cleaned, ect. So I start to wonder ways to stand out from the crowd. Maybe I'll hand out my resume on colored paper, or not wear a tie, or wear a tie but not a suit? Yeah.
I also thought I could just show up in street clothes, no resume, and just tell people how cool I am. With that kind of moxie people will be fighting to hire me, right? ....Right?