Wow, when it rains, it pours. I go from having my nice normal job at Lexmark and the probability of working again at a lab on campus next semester, where I always work, and then suddenly…:

1. A professor, Dr. T, emails me from UK, saying that my boss at the lab where I usually work recommended me for a web developer for him. I interviewed with him the other day and I have the job, if we can work out times we can agree on.
2. However, another professor, Dr. J, wants me to participate in his undergraduate bioinformatics research. That would take priority over any web developer job, since research would be more in my interests so far as resume-fluffing goes. If Dr. J gets his grant, I’ll do the research; if not, I’ll do the web development.
3. Dr. J wants me to do a personal page for another professor, Dr. Tr.
4. Dr. Tr wants me to redesign the computer science department’s layout.
5. G, from where I worked this past summer, emailed me in a panic because he needs some last-minute changes done to a layout I had created for him.

Boy, do I feel needed. I’m thinking I’ll do everything but the web development for Dr. T, since that would be a full-time position and it would compete with the full-time position of research assistant. The personal page will take all of an afternoon, G’s last-minute changes can be done in a couple of afternoons (I started on them today, actually), and the CS department redesign can be spread across a long while, as long as everyone’s patient. All of this just makes me even more anxious to get my portfolio site finished and uploaded, but of course that’s just more web design I have to do. I’m swamped!

I had been using Steve’s ethernet cable to stretch across Todd’s kitchen and living room to my computer, but Steve needed it so I ran out to Best Buy earlier and bought my own. Todd estimated I needed 30′, but I got a 25′ one because I’m crazy. I told the clerk I needed “about 30′”, he gave me the 25′, and I left to find batteries. Der. So anyway, I get back and find I’m, haha, about 3 feet short. Sooo, I move my computer to the other side of Todd’s desk and, by gum, it reaches. I hope he doesn’t mind the rearrangement.

The two of us are going to hang out this evening and watch a movie while eating dinner. He’s in class currently and I’m starving, but I’m going to wait and eat with him. I’ll run out here in a little bit and get some Subway sandwiches for us or something, because I don’t feel like cooking. I don’t know what movie we’ll watch, maybe something from Disney.

The girls stopped by earlier because I was ignoring phone calls while I worked on G’s last-minute fixes. They told me I looked like I was about to cry, and I explained to them that I’m just frustrated from having so much crap to do. They were going to O’Charley’s and tried desperately to get me to come along, but I had to get some work done. At least the three of us will be hanging out tomorrow after work. I’m excited about it, though Ashlee possibly won’t be along as she may have a date with Brent. Brent being Todd’s brother. Those two have gone on a few dates now and they’re quite adorable. However, Jessica and I may have to put our feet down and demand she not renege on her hanging out duties.