9 Jun 2000 nullity   » (Master)

Its summer...Time for work and play.

Its been a long time since a wrote an entry because I've been insanely busy. Exams, people, and Eazel have all taken their toll... But the good news is that everything has come together. I have a job - an internship at Eazel working under Pavel's mentorship. This is *awesome* because I really like Pavel and respect his mad skills :) So not only am I going to be able to eat and have shelter this summer, I think I'm really going to improve my own thinking and code writing.

I treated myself to "Rick's Really Rich Icecream" as a reward for getting work. That stuff is *awesome*. If you are in the Santa Clara area you just have to try it. And its right near Eazel...so...I figure I can bike there for lunch every day ;)

As far as housing I'm going to be living in Mirielees (sp?). Which is often because that particular summer residence is the more desired of the three or four available. Its also cool because I don't have to buy an expensive meal plan there, but can cook for myself. Of course the downside is that with on-campus housing you have to pay the entire cost up front. Yikes! This has meant depending on my grandparents for money (who are thankfully there or I would have lots of trouble "swinging it"). Oh well...guess I don't "get" to be 100% financially independent yet :-) I can think of much worse things in life ;-)

I'm also finally getting a bike. Cool beans. Of course I have to acquire one for monday, which is my first day of work. I figure that if I can't get one by monday I can probably beg a ride off *somebody*. Not many people left, but enough, heh heh.

I wrote some more escape related code for Nautilus, as well as some more work getting Nautilus running under Solaris. I can't figure out what's going wrong, but the Solaris attempt is not going very well... <sigh> I'll probably try again using Helix Gnome as a base-line (I was trying to do everything from scratch). I've also "white-boarded" some ideas for an improved URI entry box in Nautilus. I think the current one doesn't cut it.

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