Alex's Alliterative Adventures

Sorry for the absence, all, but I’ve been in crazy-death-mode for the past little while.  The past 4 days have been filled with 13 hours of choir practices, classes, assignments, and 5 interviews.  I also have a giant-ass project that I’m sorely behind on due on the 10th, and I have 5 more interviews up to that point. So yeah, posting will continue to be sparse until then.

I will bitch a bit, though.  Last night, I had an interview with Digital Extremes in London. They helped Epic Games make Unreal, UT, UT2k4, and Epic Pinball, which I grew up playing.  I’ve essentially turned down job offers just so I could have the chance to talk to these guys.  I think that Sweden was just conspiring against my returning to Canada, because the call quality was abysmal.  There was about a second of lag, our voices kept breaking up, and after about 20 minutes we just stopped being able to hear each other entirely.  They’re going to consider me nonetheless, but it’s a kick in the pants.  And the worst part is that I was able to secure the use of my own private office with a private wired phone line in my department, but I don’t get the key until next week sometime.  This is the sort of thing that could drive someone into a life of high-prescription glasses, low-voiced near assertive mumbling, and an obsession with red staplers.

I’ll throw up a post I wrote a little while ago to appease you guys.  Go gnaw on it, and try not to chew up the couch when I’m gone.