Got up early this morning and took my car to Wal*Mart to get an oil change and to have my tires rotated and balanced. I purchased the tires I currently have on my car in 2006, at the time they asked me if I wanted to purchase lifetime balance and rotation for 8 bucks a tire, which I did. Since then, I have balanced and rotated my tires 4 times, for free. Actually, by this time, I have made money on the deal. It made me think, man, I am really sticking it to Wal*Mart on this one, then I realized, while getting my tires worked on, I spent 40 bucks on an oil change, and almost 200 on groceries. Wal*Mart wins again.

While I waited on my car, I built a "goals" speadsheet for the next two years. I like building spreadsheets and budgets and stuff like that, I don't know why, I just do. Anyway, with my spreadsheet I can enter in a prospective salary of a job and see if it will allow for Steph and I to reach a couple of our goals the first two years out of the MBA program. The spreadsheet accounts for all of our expenses, which can be adjusted to any cost of living change we experience if we move. So, now I know for sure what kind of salary I need, what kind I want and what kind I would be thrilled with.

Got inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma society. It is a pretty cool honor considering before

entering the MBA program I had never taken a business course in my life. I graduated with a Bachelors in Psychology, so the type of course work I experienced in the MBA program was something very foreign to me. I would be more excited about it if I had already reached my ultimate goal of finding post graduate work. Being inducted in this society, and even my upcoming graduation, is hard to fully enjoy knowing at this point I will be unemployed in two months. But, I am trying to stay positive....

Took a much needed break from school work last Sunday and went and saw Shutter Island. It was really boring, which is unfortunate, because I really like Scorsese movies. While there, we saw John Pelphrey walking out of a movie at the same time we were walking out of Shutter Island. That guy is super tall, which is dumb to say because you expect him to be tall since he played basketball in college, but still, his tallness surprised me. Since we lost to the winless in conference LSU tigers last night, this is probably what Pell is doing right now....

Went to the University of Arkansas career fair this past week. Past career fairs had always been disappointing due to a lack of interest from recruiters, but this time was different. I think it mostly had to do with graduating in a couple months as opposed to a year. I actually had one interview stemming from the fair, and think I might have at least two more down the road. But we'll see. I have learned not to get too hopeful or discouraged in this job hunt.

Other than that, not much going on. My team got second place in a cereal selling simulation game using SAP. It was nice retribution from my Markstrat days, in which my team got last out of the whole class.

No plans for this weekend yet, expect for getting some rest. I am exhausted.

I told Steph the other day that I can't wait for this period of my life to be over. All its been for the past two months is school-homework-job searching, school-homework-job searching, and repeat. This has turned out to be the most stressful and busy semester of all, which is definately disappointing. I was hoping the worst of it was over. Its not, I am right in the middle of it.

However, I did get to meet this little person yesterday....

...her name is Remy and she is my best friend's new baby. They live in Houston now so this was the first time we got a chance to meet her. It was a pretty surreal moment, kind of like the first time one of your friends gets married. Not surprisingly, seeing Remy gave Steph "the fever", really bad. Yeah, it won't be too long before we have one of our own. I think it will be pretty cool.

But until then, school-homework-job searching, school-homework.........

Wednesday, February 10th recap

Yesterday was a long one, here is how it went...

• 8-9, gym
• 9-10:30, read
• 11-12:30, class
• 12:30-1:30, lunch
• 1:30-5:30, job searching and reading
• 6-9, class
• 9-11, typing a paper

Glad its over.