I just got back from the Texas Juggling Club meeting of which Karen is now an officer. It was really cool! My BHP group I decided that for our BHP 10-week project (topic: Diversity on campus), we should film a movie. First, I thought that a scripted movie would be better, but now I'm leaning towards documentary-style. Everything will depend, of course, upon what ,y classmates decide to do, except I don't think, unfortunately, that many of them will do much, so I'm starting it myself, and just filmed quite a bit at the meeting, and conducted interviews.....and this led me to the conclusion that

I really, really, REALLY, REALLY miss journalism.

Or maybe just yearbook. Filing. Interviewing. Running around, crouching on the floor, head tilted, pulling people by the hand, screaming "NO, YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO START YET!"...I miss it. Doing it again tonight showed me just how much I loved it. I didn't just do yearbook for the sake of resumes...and I need to remember that, and if I do anything in college, it's find some way to continue doing journalistic activities (without being really in the jornalism department).

So I kind of have a date Saturday, I think. There's this officer of the Anthropological Society, a junior named Nick, who's really nice, and he invited me to dinner with him. We'll see how that goes. Funny conversation, speaking of which:
Nick: "So, want to go to the Korean place by the Alamo Drafthouse? It's amazing."
Odile: "I'll be brave and say yes, sure."
Nick: "Ever heard of it?"
Odile: "Of course not! I'm from Austin!"
Nick: "You do realize that's really sad?"
Odile: "Oh, deffinetly."
Nick: "Okay, so I'll pick you up at 6?"
Odile: "By 'pick you up', you mean walking, right?"
Nick: "Oh, did I forget to mention this would be on my motorcycle?"


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I had to ask him to switch to somewhere else because my mother would surely forbid me to ride on a motorcycle, as cool as it would be. Then again, if Hilary Duff did it....maybe when I'm a little older, or out of the state. I just know I'd feel really guilty. I tell my mom practically everything, so I'd probably accidentally mention it. Whoops. :) Also, tomorrow I'm joining Chris Dorsey and other FBA members on the Austin Duck Tours! It should be fun, and, as Chris said, "Isn't it sad that we haven't done this yet?". I was just discussing with the Bugg sisters yesterday how everyone knows him. Oh, yes, they visited me. THANKS, ALYSSA AND RACHEL! The visit was quite enjoyable!!! Loved seeing you both. Rachel: lunch! Call me!

Other news:
1) the Career Expo was so much like the Semiconductor Cable Tec Expo from this summer that I thought I must have accidentally stepped back in time. Thean I realize my dad wasn't runnin ghte the 3M booth, and that it was 3 months later. It was cool, though....but I wasnt expecting some 30 companies to ask me for my resume! Darn Karen for wanting to rush out before I could print any out! Oh, well, it wouldn't have been on special paper, anyway, AND they'll be back in February. There, take that. The Etiquette Dinner was really, really cool. Julia, Nami and I walked down there together, and Alexandre was (not so coincidentally, though goodness knows me he engineered the situation; he refused to tell me) sitting at my table, so we had fun talking in French to each other and confusing our tablemates. The dessert was strawberry shortcake. You can guess- I was quite excited.
Me: "So, Ma'am, I've noticed that Phillip Morris seems to be quite a large company."
Recruiter: "Oh, yes, it's wonderful."
Me: "However, there seems to have been some abiguity about what it is you market?"
Recruiter: "...."
Me: "Ma'am?"
Recruiter: (nervous laughter) "Oh, right, yes. Well, we're the number one sells of tobacco in the world."
Me: "..."
Recruiter: "Miss?"
Me: "Oh, number one in the world...that msut be exciting!"
Recruiter: "Oh, yes, it is."

Suffice to say, I would NEVER work for them. It would drive me crazy. Argh! Then, this morning, Ford interview, and Nami and I went down together. The two recruiters were very sweet, and the man said he'd hire me for Ford if I ever "get to feel passionate about the automobile industry." Well, you never know.....except that I probably won't, but he said that I had almost all of the behavioral characteristics they look for for "fresh blood", so that was really cool. Then I ran to advertising class in under 6 minutes...in heels...all the way across campus. I have NO idea how I did it; I just think that the prospect of being late to a class freaked me out so much that I ran at super speed. I even heard:
"Hey, what's that lady in the business suit doing? It looks like she's running away from a murderer or something."

So, now, it's calling the parents, figuring out how to import digital footage onto Boris, and sleeping. Heavy on the latter. How is everyone, anyway?