The snow plows are out right now. I’m happy to say I can see some pavement so I may make it back to Richmond tomorrow night after all. However, the more likely scenario is that I catch the Super Bowl over at Emilio or Jacob’s place.  I’m also thrilled that I saw Madison today. She is doing well despite the snow.

I also got a hand digging out my car by my neighbor, Matt. He’s a 3rd grade teacher and calls Madison “Sammy”. He has a shovel, which is something I’ve neglected to invest in.  Who knew Charlottesville, VA would get so much snow in the span of a few months?

So far, the only things I have planned are skiing @ Wintergreen and going to work.  I am moving to Richmond this Sunday, so that could be somewhat exciting. Maybe I’ll take him on a whirlwind tour of Charlottesville followed by a few civil war battlefields.

This project really reminds me of the gnome in Amelie.

I’ve set up the subdomain kathylin.dreamhosters.com to redirect to this one, so update your bookmarks if you were so nice as to actually bookmark my site in the first place.

1. New job. This is at the top of the list because I left a long and pretty good career at Booz Allen Hamilton. I was looking for something new, and do not regret my decision.
2. New degree. In May 2009 I graduated from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce MS in MIT program.  I received a Master of Science in the Management of I.T.  It was a really awesome experience and I met a lot of really fantastic, smart people. It was definitely the push for me to take the leap and do #1 (new job).
3. New commute. Unfortunately, with the new job comes a long long commute to Richmond, VA. At least I know more people in Richmond, now.
4. Been engaged for a year.  Depending on what time zone you are in, Aaron and I got engaged on July 30th or July 31st.  Still planning that wedding!
5. First blizzard. After living in SC for a good chunk of my life, I’ve not been part of any major snowstorms. Even living up in DC didn’t produce the kind of snow we had last week in Charlottesville — about 20 inches!  It was a lot of fun, but also majorly inconvenient. :) Still pretty neat though.
6. Completed my next gen gaming console collection. From my humble beginning as a Wii-only owner, I’ve rounded out my frivolous collection with a PS3. I had been waiting for years for the “thin” version to come out and in August, it finally did. Of course, the amount of time I’ve had for any gaming in recent months has gone down substantially.

Any publicity is pretty cool, especially when coming straight from the mouth of a job seeker (in NY no less)! Always nice to hear what they have to say, even when we can’t speak to them all personally.

The story focused on how online job listings aren’t always what they seem.  Although job boards such SnagAJob.com seem to have many listings, sometimes it is not a true reflection on which employers are actually hiring. It is also important to keep in mind that employers can afford to be rather picky now, especially with the number of workers flooding the market.  However, not hearing from an employer often erodes the trust of the seeker in the website that presented the listing, rather than in the employer.

Balancing the needs of the job seeker and the employer is an everyday occurrence at work and will continue to be.  There isn’t a magic bullet for everything. :)

But perhaps in this day and age with short attention spans, maybe not.  Just skimming this page shows I don’t blog very often.  Of course, my last tweet (over two years ago) is evidence I use Twitter even less frequently.  Maybe one of these days I’ll go back — once someone manages to convince me that it’s not 99.9% noise.

I haven’t decided how I feel about it yet. It is very very different from what I used to do, so let’s just leave it at that.

Aaron, Xandy and Neely are doing great. I’m still living in Charlottesville, VA.  The commute isn’t the best, but others at work have a long commute, and they don’t complain so I don’t want to too much either.

My wedding site is up in a skeleton form, the big day is November 6th. I am gladly taking recommendations for photographers, but venue, caterer, and cupcake-maker are pretty much nailed down.

Update: the Pegaus arrived today, which was really neat.  I can say I was really surprised to see that the matte display does not have the shiny black bevel rim around the display like the glossy display. So, the picture they show on the apple store for the unibody 17″ can be misleading, if you choose the anti-glare display.

Instead, it’s a matte silver bevel, the same color as the rest of the computer except for a black rubber-y rim that surrounds the entire screen.  That part is a bit …. interesting.  I’m not sure I actually like it.  But, then again, maybe it will grow on me.

Aaron was best man — his speech was, shall we say, ‘short and sweet.’ The Inn was pretty nice, and I’ll have to say it was really awesome that the weather cooperated since this was (unknown to me!) an outdoor wedding! We stayed at the BWI Hilton, which was a nice hotel. An extra plus was that one of the channels on the TV was ESPN HD. This amused me greatly, as College Gameday was at Oregon and I swear you could see every bead of fog in the air.

Oh, right the wedding. :) It was really nice. Congratulations Tim and Robin!

I’ve also given up on RSS feeds because I have my own live (human) versions (at both work and home) that pepper me with interesting information so I never even have to read the internet-tubes anymore. I love it! Let’s not forget the lost art of conversation in this day and age.