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Life is interesting. I suppose I was in a contemplative mood when I wrote that last entry a month and a half ago. It made me think, though, now that I finally got around to writing it up. In a way, I'm glad it took me this long to post it. My life has been very hectic in the past few weeks as I've been running around like a crazy person trying to get everything accomplished. In some ways, I realized that I've strayed a bit from what I wanted to do, and in other ways I'm doing exactly what I want to do.

The Cisco Choice program that I just finished is a three week whirlwind that literally throws the company at your feet and challenges you to find a single manager/team that you feel you will get along with the best and whose work you're interested in. It's scary in a way to think about how much time I spent with groups, taking away from their time to do work just so they could get me to choose their project to work on. Some managers spent an hour with me, and this one guy was a 2nd level manager, so not too shabby. I ended up joining a Security team doing Firewall stuff for their routers and such. The scary thing is, I've never really taken a security course or anything of that nature. This is particularly exciting since it gives me an opportunity to learn tons of new stuff. The other exciting thing is that I am the 2nd person on my team. WTF!!?!? yeah... new team. Lots of exposure to managers... new and interesting stuff... but also a team that if it doesn't produce... will be disbanded... meaning I just get reassigned to another project. Not the worst thing ever. I'm definitely looking forward to the work though, sounds pretty interesting, even if I'm just going to be doing bug fixes for a few months until I get up to speed.

The people who started on the same day as me are great though. We all get along really well which makes me really happy. The first week before work started and the first few days of work were kinda lonely for me. I still have trouble talking to people for the first time but it turned out ok in the end. I was lucky enough to have a small group of people starting with me. 14 of us here in San Jose instead of the groups of 30-50 that were starting on other days. Much easier to get to know everyone, and we all hang out on weekends. So yeah, now that I have internet, I should be posting a bit more often. Drop me a line if you want to talk. Haven't really kept up with as many people as I wanted to... but that's only half my fault :-p