five months (weeks 22 & 23)

bahhhh. who the hell cares anymore! i was originally planning on saying this next month, for the 6 month mark...but since i'll be in training for the next month, i don't think i'll have anything interesting to say for the next two posts. with that said, i think i'm going to quit making work updates (as frequently) just because they're really not all that interesting from an outsider's perspective. it's hard for me to tell you what i do, or the software, etc without putting in a ton of key words into here (again, i'm not keen on the idea of everybody work knowing about and seeing my blog). annnnd i'm having trouble keeping up with writing them. it may not seem like it, but i've been waiting til the ends of each week before writing everything down..then jogging my memory of what i even did or accomplished... anyway, i'll let you guys know if anything big happens, like if i actually get on a client project and can travel places and whatnot. otherwise, i think i'll be slowing these posts down. hope that's ok with you guys and that y'all are doing well! ~Lin-chan ^.~

week 22
in summary: it was chaos. our team member was still in town m-th and gave seminars for people in the office. otherwise he had a lot of conference calls to attend and our project kept getting on the back-burner and slowed down. for veterans day, they decided to have a get together on the terrace to acknowledge those in our office who've served. periodically throughout the week, S and i had been introduced to and in contact with someone else who let us onto their project..again without a billing code. so we're like in this stupid limbo of two projects but billing no one. then friday rolls around and my manager wants us to take a month-long training (including two saturdays!) to learn a new programming language, and drop said two unbillable projects. like really. really? so it's been kind of crazy hectic. but whatever. also on friday, we went to the middle school again and made plastic out of agar, cornstarch, glycerin, and water. really neat!

week 23
it was crazy and hectic. we started doing our java training which went from afternoon to late evening---which by the way, really sucks. the only caveat to that was that i could go into work late and there's no traffic coming or going, which was kind of nice. second, we learned that we are being put onto a different functional team, which is why we are learning java. so, forget the fact that we spent the past 4 months learning this one functional area and two programming languages (and still suck at all of them). but here! learn a new language and some totally new software! so not only are we spending about 5 hours a day on java training, we are spending about an hour a day with our new functional group, learning their stuff. and not only that, wednesday and thursday of this week i had a mandatory 2 hour webinars on how to be a good employee for clients, yadda yadda. i was supposed to have a third one on friday, but our manager's manager called for a meeting regarding my new functional group during that time frame. so it was training session after training session for basically the whole week. @_@ it was awful. not to mention the fact that i have to go to work tomorrow because it's one of the saturdays that they scheduled. the instructor is from another country, so needless to say, it's on this particular schedule for a reason... so TT_TT's & 晚上's for me!!! but i guess that's that salary life! lol.