Accomplishments:

• Received offer and verbally accepted an internship position with a software company.
• Flew to Chicago to attend the 2009 ALA Annual Conference
• Read Metadata (Zeng & Qin, 2008)

The day started out on a very positive note when I received an offer for an internship position I’ve been pursuing since mid-June. I’ll be living and working in Cambridge, MA for most of fall term 2009. I’m excited! The only downside is that I have to find housing, and I have to leave Kyle and Powder behind in Oregon.

The cheapest route to Chicago from Portland was to fly via DFW. The flight from PDX to DFW went without a hitch, but our luck ran out in Dallas. After all of the passengers boarded the plane and the doors had been secured, the pilot found out that the plane had a maintenance issue in the cargo hold that needed to be resolved before we could depart. We sat on the plane at the gate for about an hour while that was fixed. It wasn’t too bad; the American Airlines flight crew did a good job of keeping the passengers informed about what was happening and comfortable, which I really appreciated. A big change from years past when American would just leave you sitting there and not share any information at all. It did get a bit warm on the plane. It was 100+ degrees outside and the AC on the Super 80 just couldn’t keep up. It was after 10:00 p.m. when we finally got into O’Hare. Due to late-night construction work, it took us about 2 hours on CTA trains to get to our hotel, so it was after midnight by the time we checked-in. Fortunately our room at the Allerton Hotel was waiting for us. It was quite nice and comfortable.

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