Drongos

Tuesday evening, I had dinner and then went out with Adam to play some basketball. We got to the court around 9pm and there was barely anyone there. It was kinda chilly which most Australians think is freezing so I think that was the reason. Adam and I just shot around and played some one on one for a while. It was kinda lackluster and wasn't all that fun. I miss playing on a real court with a real hoop with a real net and basketball. The concrete court with the drains really gives your legs a pounding and after an hour running around on it my shins were hurting. Afterwards I went back, showered, and just relaxed for a little while before going to bed.

Wednesday morning, I went to work and spent the morning talking to volunteers and trying to finish up the phone survey which at the start of the day had 18 people left. I was able to do four surveys by lunch time and schedule six more for after lunch. I had spinach and feta canneloni for lunch which was really good. After lunch I started working on the survey again. I got through two more surveys and then James called and said that he had heard that the online survey was done and he wanted the data seperated by region to show to the regional managers. This is very easy in excel however in a nice format that is easily understandable for someone who doesn't regularly use excel isn't nearly as easy. I used surveymonkey to seperate the survey data by region. This wasn't so easy because I had to create 20 seperate reports along with 20 different filters for the data. The filters were very frustrating because it took some work in order to get them to filter what I wanted to. For example, I would ask the filter to filter out region 4 and it would filter out region 4, 14, and 24. I had to go back and change a lot of the responses and type out fourteen and twenty four and so on for all the numbers so the single numbers filter out correctly. That along with creating links for each of the regions accessible by the regional managers took me the rest of the day. I actually ended up staying late so I could finish it up. James needed region 13 by the next morning so I had to get it done.

I left work around 5:45pm and I got back home at 7:00pm. I had a meeting with my advisers at 7:30pm and it was the same old story so I won't bore you with the details. After the meeting, I had spaghetti for dinner which was boring. After dinner I just relaxed and watched Anger Management with the guys in my room and some of the girls. I also called Pratt and was able to talk to the woman who had contacted me before about applying. Wasn't much help though. She said that hiring will be going on for the next few weeks and that I'll probably hear from someone soon. After the other girls left Katie stayed for another hour and then left. Not even a half an hour later, she called up and came back down. Apparently some of the guys on her floor were "loud" and she couldn't sleep. So of course she slept in our room again. I woke up this morning and headed into work. I ended up riding the tram with Lemone and Salazar by coincidence because they were going to the CFA for our meeting this morning. Being stuck in a tram with them for an hour = hell.