both ends of the spectrum

I can officially say that the last few months have been the most busy of my life. I've been scrambling to get my Capstone project finished and presentable, juggling other classes and work, moving, settling, and countless other little things.

On the happy end of the spectrum is my Capstone presentation. I don't think it could have gone better, honestly. I was happy with the turnout, I was happy with my finished pages and interactive flash display, I was happy that both my parents got to see what I've been working on for the past four months, and I was happy that my project got such a good reaction from everyone who took the time to see it.
After almost a week of either little sleep or extremely restless sleep at someone else's house, it was great to finally be able to relax in my own apartment on my new couches and just do NOTHING. My dad stayed overnight and we spent Saturday together...I basically didn't even turn my computer on over the weekend.
Having finished something so huge (well, finished as far as school is concerned..), I really feel like I could take on the world. Here was a project that, from the start, was very close to my heart. It was the start of something that Laura and I have been thinking about doing for years. Now it's pretty hard to stop. I'm on a roll.


And then Monday hit!


I woke up to a voicemail from my coworker asking to send him the things I'd been working on and making some comment about not being sure what I wanted to do with my personal stuff. And that confused me a little....until I checked my work email and found a message saying that the past week had been my last at Sticky Matters. It was dated Wednesday, which was the day that I was called and told that everybody would be working from home on Wednesday because they weren't sure about the situation with the office building (since our primary investor had run into trouble). Now...maybe I'm being a little paranoid and/or bitter, but to me it seemed like that phone call was a way to keep ME out of the office the day they decided to lay me off. I don't know, I'll ask Kelly to see if anyone else was asked to stay home that day.

Anyway...One small blessing in that was the fact that I didn't have internet access in the house I was staying at, so I didn't get that email before Capstones. Because if I had known that I was laid off before Capstones, that night would have turned out MUCH differently.

So there's that.



This situation is still FAR from ideal, but I don't know...I have this feeling that this is one of those big bumps that I've got to get over before finding something better.

If there's one thing that life has taught me so far, it's that things work themselves out if you just trust in yourself and keep an eye out for opportunities.


And that's my last three months or so in a nutshell.