not a great week for collapsing fans, i realize. but now the busiest week of the year is over and done and i feel much better. i won’t bother you with all the details, but so there is some sort of idea of where i’ve been all week, i’ll sum it up.

i had an interview saturday that went great. i think it will definitely result in an offer. i had another interview with a different place monday, which lead to a second interview yesterday afternoon, which will definitely lead to an offer as soon as they figure out how much they can afford to pay me. i also had a phone interview tuesday morning which went well, and will probably turn into an offer which i will probably not accept because it’s for an unpaid internship only 2 or 3 days a week, and you can’t buy food with school credit. so the job hunt is going pretty well all of the sudden and it’s good to feel in demand. on the way from the round 2 interview yesterday i stopped in at tower records and bought the mulholland drive dvd, and am looking forward to watching that soon. i also picked up the neptune’s in search of… cd because the song “rock star” has been kicking around my brain a lot lately. next song of the week maybe? the cd overall is pretty dope too, actually.

note: i frequently misspell brain as “brian”, because that’s my name and i’m used to typing it that way. i don’t think it’s a coincidence either that my name is so similar to the word brain. i mean, it is my favorite food.

what else? school projects out the wazzoo. i gave a 15 minute presentation tuesday (which i spent all of sunday and most of monday night preparing for) on why machiavelli’s the prince is a valuable read for business students. it was fun and educational, of course. i think people might have questioned my own moral standing for choosing that as a topic though (the assignment was basically a book report on any business communication-related text). i also gave an impromptu speech on “is the golden age of america in the past or future”; to which my response was that the idea of a golden age is offensive to me because neither do i believe we are ever progressing toward that golden plateau of perfection, nor should we be so arrogant as to think we had already achieved it. how depressing would it be to say we were already as good as we could get — individually or as a nation — or even worse, that we had achieved that in the past and were on a downhill now? i claimed the more existentialist, “life is always the same, and your life is what you make of it.” not that there aren’t ups and downs on a grander scale, like wars and economic booms; just that things average out over time. like a sine wave. trigonometry proves useful.

also, my final advertising group project (pitch a campaign for the coffee bean, a regional coffee house chain) was last night and it was a lot of work, but we did well. that’s why i’ve been so busy this week, it was very elaborate and demanding. but we performed wonderfully.

oh, and about the scientologists and hobos: well, a scientologist lady dressed in all white tried to get me to give it a chance while i was waiting for a bus on the way to monday’s interview. she said it had done wonders for her life, and asked if i had a lot of stress and trouble in my life. when i told her no, i was fine, she said, “well a lot of people are fine, but they don’t realize they could be finer.” my bus came before i could tell her how stupid she sounded.

and as to the hobo — on the way back from the same interview one homeless man was sleeping in the shaded bus shelter on the bench, and a lot of us were standing waiting for the bus. another hobo came along and started yelling at the sleeping hobo to get out of there because “that bench is for paying customers, and it’s n**** ‘s like you that give homeless people a bad name.” i thought that was very funny. then he came over to me and gave me the “am i right?” shrug and nod combo, and held out his fist, which i gladly tapped with my own. those are my kind of hobos — the ones who don’t ask for money, just acknowledgment as real people. i would have given him some money but honestly all i had was bus fare.

i know i wrote too much today already but only one more thing: we got the house.

this is the house we’ve been trying to get for months. the one for next year, the one for nine guys, the one that will make senior year be more fun than any year yet. so between that and the interviews, this has been the best week as well as the busiest. funny how things work out.