Once again my weekend experience was fairly normal. On Saturday, I went to Star Furniture, they were having a one-day sale. That's where I had found my beautiful bomber-jacket/ranch couch that I loved. Supposedly on sale, it was only marketed down $100 from its previous price - still unaffordable for me at $2000. I am assured that that is a normal, if not reasonable, price for a couch. But until I transition to a highly paid rocket scientist (oh, wait, that's an oxymoron!) I think I will have to stick to the $600 IKEA couches.

On Sunday I had a very pleasant conversation with Karen. Its awesome to talk to her - its been a while since we had a voice conversation. I can't wait for our roadtrip to Scotland in 9 months from now :).

Then, I went to help out with the P.S. interviews. It was fun, mostly the part about entertaining the parents while the students were doing their interviews (there were 12 interviewees total, and they were doing them in groups of 3). I love answering questions about Tech!

It was pretty fun the group dynamics though. There was Liz Roellig and I. Then the 9 other alumni there helping out with interviews classified as your typical executive-level managament, older, white male. I mean, we're talking blue blazers, khakis, southern gentlemanliness, the works. Oh, and they all worked for chemical or petroleum companies (Liz does to), so little aerospace me was definitely outnumbered. It was fun to see Liz though.. we were never in the same social group at school but we always got along, and she was very cool, so it was nice to see a familiar face.

While I am on the subject of Tech, apparently flying club is getting nailed by JCOC (part of student government) for having non-student officers. I am very amused by this and very gratified that someone has taken notice. And its even better that the chair of JCOC is actually a very active member of flying club.