Milo, the sinkhole, drunken people and more!

Another day at the office done… It is hard to believe that next week marks the halfway point in my internship. This means I have to get some paperwork back to Albion. I am glad to have settled in, but wow, it took a long time. One thing I really enjoy there is having the internet. Having internet access, means I get to listen to several hours of XM Radio while I work.

Today, I worked on a survey site. This site looks to be a cool site when it is done. It will allow people to take surveys, earn points, and then purchase gift cards with the points. I have been working on the backend management side. It is a challenge as I was put into it with only the code from another site I have worked on. This has been a test to see how much I have learned. I think I have done well. I had some JavaScript errors that I did not understand, but I have not been doing too much with JavaScript.

This evening, I went out for a nice walk. This was enjoyable, as I wanted a chance to think about life without interruptions. I met Milo (and his owner), a half Russian Blue cat on my walk. Also, tonight is a warm one. Our room does not want to cool down. I really miss having Air Conditioning! The heat makes it hard to sleep and harder for me to breathe lying down. Now, as I am writing this… There are drunken people in the hall making lots of noise. Joy… It is Thursday night, not Friday!

Other notes… A sinkhole has shut down one of the major roads in and out of Sydney. This has increased several people’s commutes to over an hour. I travel nowhere near it, but some people at work were complaining about it. The hole has swallowed half a building as well. It started from one of the tunnel projects going on in Sydney. Sydney is having a big-dig sort of thing going on, but it is all private. The parts that are done are not getting used enough because people do not want to pay to use it. To promote the parts that are open, it is a free trial period. I am not sure I would use it if the future part caved in forming a sinkhole.!.!

My new addiction is The West Wing DVDs... Now that American Dreams is done. I have moved one. I have a lot more of these to watch than I did of American Dreams, so I may not finish them before comming home.

How I almost died today:

1. Heat exhaustion
2. Spaced out from lack of sleep
3. Crushed in over crowded busses both to my internship and on the way back! (Why are they not sending more busses?)
4. Can we say sinkhole?