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Double Duty

February 11, 2009 Friends / Work
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So I offi­cially got the tutor­ing job at C2 that Sophia C hooked me up with.

They actu­ally wanted me to work full time, but I need the law expe­ri­ence so I’m stick­ing with Gray & Prouty for now. That means that I’ll be going back and forth between Sacra­mento and the Bay quite fre­quently. I haven’t talked to G&P, but I’m going to need to mod­ify my MWF sched­ule so that I’m not dri­ving back and forth every night.

Things aren’t exactly set in stone, but it looks like I’ll be stay­ing at Jeremy J’s place in San Ramon and doing my train­ing in Cuper­tino before get­ting set up at the Mill­brae office. Hope­fully I can either trans­fer to the G&P San Fran­cisco loca­tion or find another law office in the Bay to work at and build expe­ri­ence and get a rec­om­men­da­tion out of. Back to scour­ing Craigslist for me, but if you know of some­thing, please give me a holler. I’ll make it worth your while!

Oh, and if you know of some more accom­mo­da­tions I could acquire on the cheap, please let me know about that, too! I don’t want to be a bur­den on Jeremy J and his family.

Hard Day's Night

February 13, 2008 Family / Work
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So last night, my flight got into Min­neapo­lis at around 12:30. I got home around 1. I wasn’t really tired due to sleep­ing so much on the plane (thanks again for the pil­low, Sophia C!) that I didn’t go to sleep until around 3.

Woke up at 7, got ready, said hi to the cousins who were sleep­ing when I got home. Went across the street to say hi to the grand­par­ents. Then it was time for work! Yep, had an amaz­ing eleven-​hour work­day for my first day in town. For those of you who haven’t heard, I’m work­ing for my uncle’s trans­la­tion com­pany. When hos­pi­tals in the area get patients who can’t speak Eng­lish, they call us, and we send some­one to go trans­late. Since today was my first day, I just did data-​entry on the back­log. The com­pany gets over a thou­sand requests a day, and about half of them come in fax form. So I take the faxes and punch all the info into the com­puter data­base. Then the advanced peo­ple look at the most press­ing requests (the ones for today and tomor­row, basi­cally) and make sure they are filled. Had a short lunch break, where my uncle took me out to a local deli. They spe­cial­ized in awe­some pani­nis. Then back to the grind, with a short break from typ­ing to do a lit­tle IT work.

On the way home, it was lightly snow­ing, which was awe­some. Very sparkly. Had a light din­ner because it was so late, and then it was bed­time for the kids. I went to my room, got my desk­top up and run­ning, and now I’m here, typ­ing this and talk­ing to a mil­lion peo­ple on AIM. Dis­tance really does seem to make the heart grow fonder.

Oh, and I for­got to men­tion… on the ride home, my uncle asked me what my favorite alco­holic drink was. I said whiskey neat, which I think impressed him. At din­ner, he poured out a fin­ger of eighteen-​year-​old single-​malt Scotch for both of us.

… I think he thinks I’m an alcoholic.

But any­way, I should go kass out soon. Got another day of work to look for­ward to!

First Snow

January 21, 2008 Alpha Phi Omega / Cars / Friends
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One of the inter­view ques­tions I got from a pledge this term was, “What is your favorite weather?” When I replied, “First snow,” another pledge nearby said, “Aw, how roman­tic.” I dunno about that, but I do think there’s some­thing really spe­cial about the first snow­fall of the sea­son. Brings back mem­o­ries of my child­hood, I guess. Speak­ing of which, Drew M and Lind­sey had never seen snow­fall before last night. And what a time to see it!

As we tried to make our way back to Davis from Reno, Eddie and Sophia C, who had gone ahead of us, called back to warn us that snow chains were required at Don­ner Sum­mit. We fran­ti­cally ran around look­ing for chains for Kimball’s car, and it didn’t help that he had an odd wheel size of 225÷50÷16.

After that, we cruised along slowly through the hor­ri­ble traf­fic up to the sum­mit, and all the guys piled out to put on the chains. As we were fin­ish­ing up, a trucker tells us that chain con­trol had just been lifted, and that we should take them off. So we did, and piled back into the cars, and were on our merry way. We actu­ally hit the heav­i­est snow­fall and ici­est roads after that point, and were won­der­ing to our­selves why chain con­trol was lifted at all. Kim­ball had some trou­ble con­trol­ling his car, and actu­ally had to pull an emer­gency pit to the shoulder.

On the plus side, Drew M and Lind­sey got to see falling snow and stick their hands out the sun­roof to feel the flakes. But we were also scared shit­less about what to do to help every­one get home safe. As we shuf­fled peo­ple between Tim and Joe M’s cars to send help back to Kim­ball, he man­aged to rock his way out of the snow­bank and crawl for­ward to meet us.

The worst of it was over, and we hit low enough ele­va­tions that we just had to worry about slick roads from melted snow, rather than roads that were actu­ally iced over. We all manged to get home safe, but it was up in the air for a while.

Hope­fully the peo­ple com­ing home today have bet­ter luck than we did.

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