Cat on my head.

Domain successfully reclaimed. Databases almost successfully retooled and updated. Some data lost, recreated the pages and link listings. Mourning the loss of all comments. Wonder how long it will be before someone reads this page again. Fond of speaking without pronouns.

All pretentiousness aside, I’ve somehow managed to survive my almost first week of work + graduate school. This makes me happy; it would make me happier if I weren’t still sick. Yes, the head cold is still here and on top of that I managed to bite my tongue somehow last night while I was sleeping.

There’s apparently hurricane Dean boiling and brewing right now. We talked some about this last night at work and it didn’t really hit me until this morning. You see, I just started working for Hyatt. (Queue another post sometime later about the insane corporate culture they have.) I’m in training to be a reservation agent, which means I’ll be talking to those people fleeing from the gulf. Already people are packing up and leaving New Orleans for fear it hits them and the levees break again.

You can talk all you want, and I know I spent a lot of time being pissed off in my econ class because of the horribly racist and classist connotations of the professor’s take on the situation, about Katrina and just how bad the government response was and what should have been done to help move people out and why some couldn’t, etc. And it really hit me that I’m going to be working in hospitality during hurricane season. I’m going to be assisting this people, or at least be trying to, find them a place, any place to go that they can take themselves, their things, their families, their pets that’s safe. That’s really a pretty awesome responsibility.

In other news, I think I have about three different ideas for research papers right now and at least one doesn’t seem to have much in the way of literature out there about it, at least when I did some preliminary searching on the topic yesterday, so it’s a possible thesis topic. The other big one probably has been done but I haven’t actually tried a lit search yet. I plan on doing some Monday afternoon. This weekend is strictly for relaxation and catching up on stuff I need to do.