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saturday, june 5, 1999, 01:26 let's do a recap on this crazy week of mine. well, starting last friday, with campus dance. which really wasn't this week, but i haven't talked about it yet and it was just so wonderful that i want to remember it. i missed both my proms in high school. it was intentional. i remember i asked beth to the prom my junior year. she was a freshman and her mom wouldn't let her go. i'm not exactly sure what i was thinking, but i know that i didn't really want to go anyway. less social than i am even now, the prom represented something big and scary that i didn't want to have any part of. tack onto that the fact that my friends had girlfriends, and it was shaping up to be a pretty awful experience. so i opted out. and i haven't regretted it. because the thing is that i wanted it to be right. i wanted to go to something fancy with someone i really cared about and hold hands and do couple things instead of just stand around and drink punch all night with a bunch of people i never had any other contact with for the rest of the year. i think that campus dance fulfilled all of that for me. i hear rumors that ten thousand people decended upon campus that night for this party, and from the look of things, it wouldn't suprise me. i wore my suit. elaine wore a dress over dress combo. we walked hand in hand down the hill to a cute little desert/coffee shop where she proceeded to make fun of me when i couldn't drink our irish whiskey coffee drink without making a face. i'm a lightweight. what can i say? we then proceeded to the dance where we walked around like a couple and smiled a lot. and though she says that it didn't compare to the prom at all, it was still a wonderful night. granted it included me not being able to dance a step and getting kicked a lot by some swing dancers on speed, but i tend to forget the super-strange parts and focus instead on the fact that we were just damn cute that night. fast forward a couple of days, through packing, through tension between my parents and me, through trying to cram all my stuff into two cars, through a graduation and to returning to providence one last time to run some errands and pick up the rest of my crap. that was tuesday. wednesday i had that bullshit interview with mtv. thursday, was nuts, but it renewed my faith in the fact that i might actually get a job. what they say about new york being a seller's market for tech jobs seems to be the truth as one of the head developers at iTurf told me that they were having trouble hiring. who'd a thought i'd be in demand. so, three interviews in one day. iTurf at 1pm, where i proceeded to say "cool" and "wow" a lot and talk about a game design for Zelda which we wrote two years ago for an intro software engineering class, and then went off and spoke a bit about my people skills to the developer guy. they want to "move ahead" and get some references from me. Orientation is a global web portal kind of a place with a very cool product and an atmosphere which seems less so, though i can't really tell. having only walked from the elevator to the office, i can't say, but it seemed dark, and very wooden. and maybe old? i couldn't tell. but that's what the second round is for next week. and then there's primary knowledge. they've got some data warehouse thing going. they've got some data analysis going on. they're in the basement of a brownstone on east 30th. nice bunch of people, who are really excited about their product. a product which doesn't exist yet. this startup has 5 people, four of who are founders. this company has a lot of potential and the people there all seem to stand behind the idea that they're working on. as do a lot of large companies. so that's where i am right now. totally confused and overwhelmed and all i really want to do is sleep. but that's not going to happen either because i've got people to see and things to do. i thought life was going to slow down after graduation, but it seems to have sped up at an alarming rate. and i have two more companies next week. when did i ever think that i was going on vacation?
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