From 9-5 for the next two weeks I'm enrolled in a Core Technology class, learning the kinds of things they first teach people when they staff help desks.

It's all great stuff to know, but I feel like I'm not catching on as quickly as some of the other people in the class who are computer engineering and information systems majors.

Today they had one of the managers who's in charge of hiring for DoIT on campus come in and talk about what they look for in a resume and interviews when hiring for technology jobs. He said they're more concerned about people's interpersonal skills than they are their technology skills, to which my teacher replied: "You can make a flashcard that will teach you an acronym, you can't make a flashcard that will help you to not be a douche bag."

My teacher is a hilarious man, which makes being cooped up in a computer lab all day more bearable. He also said today: "Now that people know you took this class, when they're drunk at parties they're going to want to talk to you about the following things: They're going to want to talk to you about their computer problems; they're going to want to talk to you about God, because everyone wants to talk about God even if they're atheists; and they're going to want to talk to you about the band instrument they played in junior high that someone told them they could have been really good at once."

HAHA, fingers crossed I pass the certification exam in 2 fridays!

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c'mon now

While shopping on half.com at 1:39am I discovered that there is a (slight) chance that my identity has been stolen.

My cart was full of really fabulous summer reading, too.

I'm going to be needing to look into this tomorrow during banking hours.

Team Name Suggestions

After a little bit of a late start on our part in searching for summer sand volleyball leagues we discovered that pretty much all leagues in Madison and surrounding cities are already full.

Except...the POWER league at the Keva Center in Middleton.

I thought this sounded a little too intense at first, but the way they described it to Bruni was that everyone serves overhand and teams almost always use all 3 hits...so normal volleyball, basically?

I'm excited, and I'm guessing we're going to get dominated by 1 or 2 teams, but other then that I think we can be competitive.

Now, we need a team name!!! Any suggestions?

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I'm starting to feel like the word verification component of commenting on blogs is no longer just to verify that you're not a robot.

It's become an IQ test, endurance test (some are small novels), vision test, and a lovetap/bitchslap to the face saying: "Y'all should have listened in first grade D'Nealian class, because this is how we make our lower case d's around here."

When they're really difficult verifications I usually hover my mouse over the "publish your comment" button nervously, considering the option of just Xing out of the page all together so I won't have to face the word verification rejection (just kidding, but I do hover nervously).

Tell me how many of you were able to verify this upon first glance? Really?