decidedlyodd

On Thursday, Michael, Kara and I went over to Ketee’s family’s place in Winston-Salem for Thanksgiving dinner. The food was great, but it was also nice to just get out of town and go somewhere more family-oriented for the holiday. The most unique part of the dinner, which I enjoyed was the seafood-based stuffing. Her family is from New Orleans (currently displaced by Katrina actually) and I guess said stuffing is a standard in their family. There was tons of food though and tons of desert. I had several small slices of different kinds of cake for desert.

That night, I got an assignment done for my class. Basically, as of Thursday morning, I needed to complete the third, fourth and fifth homeworks of that class. I’m WAY behind actually, mainly because the third assignment has just been a major pain in my side for over a month. It’s slightly difficult, but mostly just tedious. The longer I’ve been in school, the less tolerance I have for doing tedious things. Hence, I decided to just skip that assignment for now and managed to power through the fourth one that night. Tomorrow, I’m hoping to finish off the fifth. Then I can come back to the third and re-evaluate how much of it I can complete before the semester is over.

The worst part is that I only took this class because I thought I would need it for the PhD program. Now that’s not on the agenda, which makes the class all the more frustrating. The material is still usually interesting, just not when I’m bogged down on tedious parts of assignments. Mostly, I just need to get these things done so that I can get my P and be done with it.

Over the past couple days, I’ve also been in contact with a couple of UNC grads who now work at Microsoft. They’ve given me some helpful info about places to live and so forth. Everybody I’ve dealt with so far at Microsoft has been very helpful really. It’s very refreshing. The fact that I’m really moving has settled in some more over the past few days as well. Part of me is getting overwhelmed with figuring out all the moving arrangements. I’m seriously considering calling up my recruiter and telling her I’d rather take the full relocation package instead of the big wad of cash. Then again, I could always just use some of the money they’ve given me to pay for a consultant to help me find housing (something like $300 for a day).