I'm eating cheese and crackers.

This was a really short work week because Monday was a holiday and then I have Friday off because of this whole 9-80 deal which gives me every other Fridays off. Even though it was short, I've been really busy. So busy that I eat lunch at my desk and don't take the usual coffee/snack breaks with some of the other co-workers. There are two phases to my project and I am just finishing up the first phase which is coding to "simulate" what would happen. I believe that the first phase is the easier one because the next phase consists of integrating the first phase into hardware and this program that I've never used before. I don't look forward to the second phase because I have to work in an ESD lab (basically means the room has to be shielded from any form of electro-static) ...which means I will be isolated from people :( . I had a meeting yesterday where I had to report my progress on the software portion of the testing because there are several other portions involved too and they were all like "didn't you just start?". Then I tell them I'm actually just an intern. LOL...I wonder if they are all thinking "oh shit!". I was glad that I was able to tell them that I had completed some stuff so I didn't look like an idiot. Yesterday, I also had lunch with my manager and some other co-worker. It was pretty amusing, yet odd...he's a pretty entertaining fellow when he's not telling me there's a deadline.

On Wednesday, our weekly intern event was bowling. Not a lot of interns came, but a lot of the more recent hires came. I met a lot of people and got to listen to the projects they are working on. I think that I've never really appreciated Lockheed as a company. I'm still wishy-washy about whether I want to work here or not when I graduate, but I've come to realize that the things that I have done here have been pretty great. I mean, how many people can say that they get to work on and be a part of innovative technology that changes the world. It was surreal to realize that everyone there was working on these crazy-ass projects from satellites to planes to missles and other secret projects.

Yesterday, I went out to a bar called Nolah in Palo Alto with some of the co-workers. It's like this New Orleans inspired place....I wish they were still serving food cause I bet it would have been good. It was Stanford Grad appreciation night there, so it was full of a bunch of Standford graduate students, including some of my co-workers. Nevin, one of my co-workers, drove me around the Stanford campus...but it was night, so I didn't see much.