So I’m on another Greyhound bus and I started thinking past Halloweens. The earliest costume I can remember is being some sort of princess witch. I’m really grateful to my parents for putting up with me even when I was unreasonable as a child. I still remember that princess witch costume and how expensive it was. I thought it was so pretty and I pretty much refused to not be a princess witch. I think that was the same year I was walking through the halls of my elementary school and a teacher (who was also dressed up like a witch) asked me how my hat was so pointy because her tip kept falling over. I think the answer was something along the lines of “I stuffed paper towels in the top” but I thought it was cool that a teacher thought I was smart for doing so.

Another costume I remember was being a cheerleader. I think I remember my cheerleader costume coming with iron on letters. I’m pretty sure I remember my mom ironing the letters on. I had little pom poms and everything. The most difficult part about being a cheerleader was that when we went and did our annual Halloween parade around the little grassy area in front of our school I had to spell Marshall Street. Marshall Street was my school and that’s what cheerleaders did in my mind – spelled the names of their schools.

One year I was a bride. I think that was in 4th grade. I told my mom I had to take make up to school because brides wore makeup. She kinda laughed at me and I guess I understand why now…but she let me take some eyeshadow and lipstick or something. Margaret was my best friend at the time and her older sister was a beautician. Margaret’s older sister helped me with my makeup. Once Halloween was over I used the costume as a dress for my teddy bear, Belle. Belle had that dress for a long time. Once I stuck Belle in the washer with that dress on and when she came out there was fur in between the layer of polyester and the layer of lace of the dress. I still have Belle but I don’t have the dress.

I don’t remember much about middle school – I don’t think I dressed up then. I remember my best friend Julia and my good friend Ally both dressed up like M&Ms along with this girl I hated at the time. It made me a little jealous but at the same time they looked ridiculous so I’m glad I wasn’t invited to join them.

In high school I remember joking that me and my friends should dress up like marching band geeks…since we had the costumes for it. Our other idea was to switch uniforms with the football players for fun. I doubt they would’ve gone for that.

One year my friend Krystal and I really really wanted candy so we took Michael and one of his friends trick or treating and I think we dressed up as babies. For some strange reason (i.e. my mom) I had this weird purple once piece pajama thing. Basically, it was footie pajamas without the footies. I guess I was a pretty convincing baby.

Freshman year of college, Helen, Vipin, and I all went out trick or treating on Beeler St (again for the love of candy). We were all dressed as angels. (pic to be added later)

Sophomore year I dressed up as Princess Peach and c j dressed up as Mario. We had pretty awesome costumes, I must admit. I had a blonde wig and a huge blue broach and everything. (pic to be added later)

Junior year I had a 272 project due so I had to code all night long rather than party with my sisters. During our Halloween party I stuck a pig finger puppet on my hand and called it my costume. I was a pig. (pic to be added later)

This year I’m determined to be a typical college girl at Halloween – short skirt and high heels. We’ll see if I get any candy.

Just call me Tink

Check out my super hot Halloween costume!

Tinkerbell

Google, here I come!

I got a second round interview with Google!!!!!!!!! Yay!!! I'll be heading out to Mountain View sometime soon!

More details to come...

AIM Bug

There used to be this AIM bug that would allow you to view people's profiles even if they had you blocked. Similarly, you could IM them even if they blocked you from seeing them on your buddy list. It was more of a loophole than a bug...

Band Geek

So I'm really lame...but I got all excited when I found out videos from my old drumline days were online.

Perkiomen Valley Music/

My former roomie is too cool...

Theresa954: you're missing out on all the fun
pookie82: i am? how so?
Theresa954: Laura, Caryl, and Jess all got blogs on blogger.com like me
Theresa954: and we're commenting on each other's posts
pookie82: i'm too cool for that

If I want your crappy software I'll download it separately, thank you

So Nik and I were just talking about how it pisses us off that when we download software it's often bundled with other software we don't want.
Examples:
Quicktime - makes you install iTunes
Yahoo! Music - tries to make you install Yahoo! Messager, Yahoo Toolbar, etc.
Google Desktop - I think it tries to get you to install google toolbar.

Anyway, my point is that I know these companies are trying to get us to use their other available software but I don't want it. I'm glad Yahoo and Google give options to not download and install the extra apps, but Apple doesn't. I've noticed that Apple is being very (old school) Microsoft with it not sharing its proprietary digital music protection format. That's not completely true though...Apple is being Apple. I don't really like Apple's 'our way is the best way and I don't care what anyone else says. I'm not sharing' mindset. Again, I understand the business reasoning behind these things but I personally believe in sacrifice for the greater good of society. That's not how the business world works though.

Laura at Cambridge

Laura at Cambridge

I have a blogger friend! Yay!

I've been chosen!

So it's nearly 5:30 in the morning and I can't sleep. I decided to screw around on Nik's computer for a while when I decided to check TartanTrak. Last time I checked I had been selected for an interview with Microsoft. This time it had Microsoft, General Electric and Google! Woo hoo!
Now, here's the dilemma (though it's not a huge one). Both my Microsoft and Google interviews are on Thursday, one right after the other unfortunately. Thursday is my tightest day, class-schedule-wise. I hope that doesn't look bad. If anything I hope it looks good that the two competing companies are trying to interview me. Heh heh.
I don't want to screw this up. I realized I've been very optimistic about this whole job search process and maybe I need to be more realistic. I can't expect to get 10000 job offers to choose among. And now I'm taking this MHCI thing more and more seriously. There's a lot to think about. Good thing I'm in this Managerial Decision Making class where my final project is to evaluate an actual decision...

Personal life update: Nik and I are having fun in the rain in DC. Yesterday we went to the Improv and saw Kevin Pollack - HILARIOUS.

Networking

This makes me out to be really pathetic, but I'm not...

So I was just looking over my blogger profile. Apparently my interests are 1. Ruling the world and 2. making friends. And I was surprised. Making friends? Since when has that been an interest of mine? It's not that I don't like friends. It's just that friends mean something different to me everyday. After SEO I very much view my friends in terms of their networking value. (I know this sounds really cold and harsh, but I promise it isn't actually as cut and dry as this.) Basically, I would much rather spend my time with more ambitious people whose futures also seem to be bright and flourishing than people who will end up managing toy stores. But then I remember...not everyone can help you, but everyone can hurt you...

I also realize that perhaps my dreams of getting a masters degree in HCI wouldn't be as important to me if I hadn't started dating Nik. I really don't think I would be taking it as seriously as I am now. Nik inspires me and since I do like to surround myself with people I'd like to be like, it makes sense that I'm dating Nik. In a way, I'm jealous that he's done with 3 degrees and I haven't even finished one. I feel like such a slacker. I'm working on catching up though.