decidedlyodd

This week was sort of weird at work. Right now is a time of transition, which often seems to make me feel unproductive and uncertain. It’s all just part of the development cycle though.

Yesterday I went to a meeting about the recruiting trip to Chapel Hill I’m leaving for on Tuesday. I got the skinny on the ins and outs of everything I’ll need to do while I’m there. I’m supposed to be giving a talk and I’ll need to spend some time on Monday getting the slides for that ready too. It should be a good time though getting to talk to young, eager prospective future employees as well as seeing my friends. Apparently, we’ll be giving stuff away and raffling off an xbox or something too. So UNC readers should make sure to drop by!

I went to Orcas tonight, which makes it the third time this week. I’m psyching myself up to get going more frequently. I just find I get a much better workout when I do Master’s swimming than when I go by myself. Plus, the environment is much better–friendly people focused on the routine as opposed to passive-aggressive people with no swim ettiquette. If I can keep it up for the rest of the year, I’m going to cancel the gym membership I get through work. My employers pays something close to $100 a month for my memberhsip. I have to pay the income taxes on that money though, so if I’m not using it, it’s just not worth it. The only thing I ever use the gym for is the pool, so there’s not much point keeping the membership if I’m not swimming there any more. After Orcas tonight, I went with a sizeable crowd for dinner. I’ve gone in the past to dinner afterwards, but now that summer’s coming to an end more people seem to be returning to the pool. I had a nice time and got to socialize with some interesting people.

Tomorrow I’m going on a brief hike and camping trip near Mt. St. Helens. It’ll probably be the last hurrah of camping for me this year unless I get bold and take up snow camping or something. The hike should be cool though too. I guess the trail goes around the volcano and there are some views into the crater. We’re planning to leave at 7am, so I decided not to go out tonight in an attempt to get a decent amount of sleep.