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November 03, 2003

Tonight we ride, right or wrong. Tonight we sail on a radio song. Rescue me, should I go down, if I stay too long in trouble town. Oh yeah, you wreck me, baby. You break me in two. But you move me, honey, yes you do. Now and again I get the feeling. Well if I don't win, I'm a gonna break even. Rescue me, should I go wrong, if I dig too deep, if I stay too long. Oh yeah, you wreck me, baby. You break me in two. But you move me, honey, yes you do. I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants. You be the girl at the high school dance. Run with me wherever I go, and just play dumb, whatever you know. Oh yeah, you wreck me, baby. You break me in two. But you move me, honey, yes you do.

And a week or two later I feel quite a bit better. Nothing in particular has really changed since then but it's not chewing on me anymore. Probably for a couple reasons.

For one I've spent all four days of the last two weekends at the dropzone either skydiving or (because the weather has been crappy the last couple saturdays) hanging out, watching movies, going out to eat, drinking, playing cards etc. It's like a little miny vacation each and every weekend.

Plus I've gotten quite a bit better (although nothing I'd call "good") at relative work. I've started jumping wearing 6lbs of lead which has made all the difference in the world in keeping up with everyone. Not floating off like a balloon everytime you let go of the formation makes the jump a lot more fun. Plus, now I can actually get better at interacting with people now that I don't have to use so much effort just to catch them.

The other reason is I've let my mind wander about the possibilities of landing a job with Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach. Given I've only had about a 90 minute phone interview so far, but I think it went well, and with any luck I may make a trip out there for a live interview. I'd be working in a systems engineering group in space technology and getting a masters at USC. Plus I'd be about an hour from Perris Valley and Lake Elsinore (two very well known drop zones in SoCal) But, like I said, I don't want to get ahead of myself with that one.

School is going pretty well, I just got back from an exam I think I did pretty well on, and classes are making decent sense to me. I am a little annoyed, however, at myself over my selection of hist247 (History of Western Science) My quiz and exam grades have been rather blah. I've been able to make good points, but my professor says he wants more names and dates which I can never seem to come up with when I'm taking a test. I can probably make up for it somewhat with the paper, where I'll have sources available while I'm writing it. Maybe I can end up with a B in the class, but either way I don't really care. I'm only taking the class because of out-dated Gen Ed requirements. I'd like to see history majors required to take ece110.

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