Whew.

What a week. My boss (who had previously only been around for 3 days since I started) came back from his business trip to South Africa, Geneva (Switzerland) and London. Just in time for my performance review. Spectacular. It wasn't terrible, it wasn't great, it was just exactly average. I guess it's good to get feed back earlier than later. He also mentioned that they haven't hired interns into this department for the last 5 or 6 years and back when they did hire them it was only 1 in 3 that got hired...which is a lot lower than I had anticipated. If I want a job here I have to sell my soul to the devil. Haha, just kidding...kinda. Oh, I have to not let my GPA drop, too. Apparently they don't even consider anyone for this department with lower than a 3.6... I guess that says a lot for the department, though. It's a pretty elite group of people, but in the good way. They're all so nice and smart and sarcastic... Overall a really great group.

Anyway, the job is still going well. I ended up working 8 hours of overtime this week...one day was a 13 hour day. I'm creating a database to track all of the 545 projects based on 30+ attributes that have been completed so far... Each project takes on average 10 minutes which is 91 hours which is over two weeks of work... if I were doing only that. Anyway, I've been doing overtime and my boss finally put someone else on the project with me so it'll get done. I'm also researching a way to put the database into a different database system (right now I'm just creating it in excel)...and then I have to convice my boss that it's a good idea to move it. Anyway, I have my work cut out for me.

I'm in Champaign this weekend hanging out with people. Peoria's fine, but it's good to get away, too. I'm sitting in the union (we don't have wireless in my apartment anymore) and there are two weddings going on here this afternoon. That's devotion. Weddings at the union? I guess they're big Illini fans. =) One of the brides just walked in but she didn't exactly look happy...haha, the flowers are pretty, though.

Anyway, I'm still alive. My ego bubble has a puncture wound from my review, but I guess it'll just make me work harder for the rest of the summer. I hope everyone's doing well. Keep me updated on how your summer's going, please!!