Going out to Ohio
It's finally happened. I have finally, after working at my job for 9 weeks, been assigned to a project where I will be billable! Yeah! It's very true, but there is a major downside. The project is in Columbus, Ohio. Home of THE Ohio State University. So the day after I get back from camping at Lake George (5th of September) I get to hop on a plane in the early AM and fly out to Ohio. We're doing a project for a national Insurance carrier to take an assessment of their current data management system and see how it is working out. Apparently they just spent a whole lot of money on it and the users aren't too happy with it and therefore, aren't using it. So I'll be out in Ohio for two weeks working on this project and talking to the employees of the company. It should be interesting. I know that Laura is bummed out about me leaving and I can't blame here. It's going to be a long two weeks away, but at least I'll be something a little exciting.
I've finally been doing some work around here, hence the lack of posts in the past week, so that has been fairly nice. Although I've hit a wall with it and the program that I've been using (SAP BW) is locking up every other second on me, so I'm at a standstill. Hopefully the problem will be resolved in the next day or so, but at this point I can't do anything, so I am just sitting around not doing anything. Sucks, but I'm pretty used to it by now.
It has inevitably come to the time when I am able to take a "break from work", that being lunch time. I feel that today might be one of those days where I take an extended break and head over to Best Buy or perhaps Barnes and Noble and see if I can find something to do for an hour and a half. Seeing as how I have my Crackberry, it doesn't really matter because if someone is looking for me, more often than not, they just shoot me an Email.
Laura just Emailed me and told me to take a look at the weather forecast for the weekend. Obviously, since we planned on going camping and spending money on a nice boat rental, it's going to rain. Oh well. I've been camping in the rain before and we'll just make sure that when we set up our campsite, we'll make sure to put up some tarps and make sure that we waterproof our stuff. I just hope that we have SOME nice weather because damn it... I'm going water skiing whether it's raining or not.
Currently there are about three people around the office that are working on fixing my damn SAP problem. I am pretty sure that they are almost finished with trying to get it working. Supposedly I'm going to be getting something else to do in the next few minutes, so at least I'll have something, but who knows. I may not be able to do that either. I have this small hope in the back of my head that if I cant' get SAP working, then they will just allow me to go home for the day. That would be amazing, but I just don't see it happening.
So for the past two weeks, Laura and I have been talking about our "situation". Our "situation" is the fact that she and I live in New York City and neither one of us really wants to be here. She contends (and I agree) that had it not been for me going to school during this past year, that she would have moved the hell away from New York years ago. Understandably, especially since her job allows her to move anywhere, she's itching to get out. The plans that we had were to move to Austin so that she could establish residency in Texas and apply to the University of Texas. With residency, she felt that she would have a much better chance of getting into her top choice law school, which is UT. The flaw in that plan was that if we moved down there, I would have to quit my job and find another. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, but the problem would come when/if she didn't get into UT and ended up needing to leave to another city. Pretty much, for me to have three different jobs in 2 years, would look pretty bad on my resume. So Laura and I talked it over, and we have made a plan that we're going to finally stick to. Laura is going to retake her LSAT and see if she can't get a better score. Once she has done that, she's going to ramp up and apply to around 15 different law schools around the country. Pending where she gets in, we're going to make plans to move there as soon as possible, and when I say "make plans" I really mean that I'm going to search for a new job. As of right now, we have no idea where we're going to end up going, so that kind of sucks, but at this point, we're just happy to have a game plan, and I'm happy to know that I'm not going to have to bail on a job that I just started.
Anyway, it's just hit noon, so I'm going to head out to BestBuy and see what fun things I can find.