No work today!

Haha! I got a good deal today. I woke up at 7:30 & showered in anticipation of having to go to work. But at about 10 of 8, John called & said he wouldn't need me to come in today. How is this a good deal? Well, I had already gotten out of bed & awakened fully (more or less), but I didn't have to go to work. Result: I've had a pretty productive day off. If I had *known* I wasn't going to work today, I probably would've slept in 'til noon.

From the News Department: my stint with Jubilee Chocolates may be coming to a close soon. One, it's getting boring. Two, Joyce may have found me something better - temping with a tech/systems company called Thomson/ISI. It isn't a position that would require any thinking, but it's $14.00/hour, 40 hours a week. No troublesome tax issues - it's all above the board. All I'd have to do is admin-style stuff - filing, data entry, etc. Still nice & mindless, but for more money. Also, working in West Philly would be cool - close to Drexel & Penn, easy to catch events, shows, lectures, etc.

And now some thoughts on one of the politicians who is supposedly my representative is the U.S. Senate. Senator Rick Santorum, who has never ever gotten my vote, had an interview with the Associated Press on April 7th in which he made some stunning comments on the right to privacy, homosexuality, abortion, & the U.S. Supreme court case regarding Texas' sodomy laws. Here's a link to the unedited interview.

( Further ranting here )

From the Not-News Department: Hot Pockets totally rule.

FINS workout

Today was a taper workout in preparation for Saturday's meet, the Schwimmfest.

Warmup:
250 swim free
150 drill free
200 kick/swim free by 25

First set:
4 x 75 choice 1:15 (a little too fast for me, since I was swimming fly)
2 x 100 free 1:35
2 X 50 choice :55
200 free/stroke by 50

Second set:
3 x 200 pull 2:55

Third set:
4 x 50 kick IM order 1:10
2 x 200: 50 swim, 50 drill, 75 kick, 25 hard Rest :20
4 X 75 kick/swim/kick by 25 1:30

Warm down 200 easy.

Total: 3,100 yards

Three quick notes, then to bed

First: tomorrow is my last day at Jubilee Chocolates. I'm starting at Thomson/ISI on Thursday.

Second: Route 1 North was closed for construction tonight. After the reroute dumped me in some scarrrry section of North Philly, it took me 45 minutes to get home. Eeek.

Third: Cooper Minis are the coolest cars ever.

And one more: apparently, they have found Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi information minister. And he's already got a job offer.

1st draft Mutch essay - ahead of schedule!

In Word, there are a handful of footnotes. Not important. PLEASE provide comments on improving this; it's the centerpiece of my application for a $12,000 scholarship.

( 2003 Andrew Mutch Graduate Scholarship Application Autobiographical Essay by Angela Ledgerwood )