Command Alkon called me this afternoon and wants me to come in for an interview on Thursday. They are a technology company, and they’re located in Birmingham! <Phoebe>So, yay!</Phoebe>
This serves well to balance out the bad news of this morning…
From an e-mail from Hewitt received just now:
Unfortunately, we will not be continuing the interview process at this time. This decision should not be interpreted as a negative reflection upon your accomplishments, but rather the result of our particular needs.
Uh, huh. Sure. In our communication class in the MBA program, we learned how to write letters to soften the blow in certain circumstances, “ding letters” being one. Once you’ve written a couple, you start figuring out just how half-hearted they can sound. They’ve always got that “It’s not you, it’s me” feeling to them.
Somehow I can’t help but believe that it is actually me.
A new edition of UA Football Facts is online, highlighting (or is that lowlighting) the Ole Miss game and previewing tomorrow’s big game against Tennessee.
A very minor change to the front page…the somewhat space-wasting borders around menus have been replaced with colored, condensed headers.
Of course, this doesn’t work properly in Netscape 4. However, it does seem to avoid crashing the browser, so my Javascript detector is now no longer needed. Maybe I got lucky and this made AOL’s browser work again too.
There’s also a version of the front page with collapsing menus which I like the look of. The problem is that in Netscape 6 or Mozilla, switching to the “Flannel” or “Fall Foliage” themes occasionally results in the background image covering everything else. Oh well. I guess I’ll just file a bug and move on with life…
Well, now we play the waiting game. The interview with Hewitt went well enough, I suppose, but who knows? I’m supposed to hear something from them sometime next week. If I get a thumbs-up, the pressing on… nationwide tour will be making a stop in Atlanta sometime this November.
My friend Ginny has told me that this page doesn’t show up in AOL’s browser for some reason. Grr. I’m starting to wonder if I might just go to something much simpler in version 8 of pressing on…
I just received an e-mail from my financial advisor. At least, that’s what the “From:” field tells me: “Your Financial Advisor”.
That’s great. I didn’t even know that I had one…but then, I guess they’d be a better financial advisor if they knew that I didn’t have any finances to give me advice about.
The interview was very short. It only took about 15 minutes. I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Oh well. I’ll know something in November…
I went by the BCM after the interview, but no one was around. Anybody going to be there Thursday around noon? I’ve got my other interview at 11:30 on Thursday, and I’d like to see some people…
A new insane thought, anti-time.
I’m pretty sure that there’s a temporal anomaly in the vicinity of my grandparents’ microwave. Setting a Hot Pocket for 2:30 results in a cook time of around 5 minutes, it seems.
I thought about flooding the region with an inverse tachion pulse, but then I remembered that my life isn’t like Star Trek.
To begin with, this week’s edition of UA Football Facts is online.
Also, the first step in a slightly new look for the front page: the menus on the right side collapse and expand, for a somewhat cleaner look (in my opinion). This probably won’t work in Netscape 4, and may even crash the browser. I haven’t implemented this yet on the front page because I want your opinions. Yes, you matter here at pressing on! 🙂
Finishing up, I’ve got a couple of interviews next week! One’s with Regions on Tuesday, the other is with Hewitt Associates on Thursday. Both are on campus.