My sched­ule has­n’t been too hec­tic late­ly (in fact, it’s been fair­ly relax­ing), but that will change with­in the week. I have two assign­ments due in six days time, which I haven’t start­ed yet. I should prob­a­bly start study­ing for exams, but that most like­ly won’t hap­pen any­time soon.

My work has expressed inter­est in hir­ing me for a full-time posi­tion once I grad­u­ate. Most peo­ple would be hired for a CS-01 posi­tion, but since I’ve been work­ing there already, and I would have a uni­ver­si­ty diplo­ma by then, I would most like­ly be hired as a CS-02. There’s great dif­fer­ence in annu­al pay between the two, and a CS-02 has a pay range that’s sim­ply amaz­ing for a new grad­u­ate. It’s very close to my goal in terms of salary, some­thing that I believed that I would have to work a few decades to achieve. This makes me hap­py.

On the oth­er hand, Aaron’s con­tract won’t be renewed, which sucks because we’ll hard­ly have any time to see each oth­er oth­er­wise. He just seems to be too busy to do any­thing with. He’s the type of friend who would want me to tell him about any prob­lems between us, but I’m afraid that this isn’t real­ly his prob­lem. I don’t feel that I have the right to demand so much of his time, since I know that he’s a busy per­son, with impor­tant things to do.

I saw two more of Hayao Miyazaki’s films, called Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and Princess Mononoke. I felt that both of them weren’t quite as good as Laputa: Castle in the Sky, but still reflect­ed Miyazaki’s amaz­ing writ­ing and direct­ing abil­i­ty. Somehow his ani­ma­tions are able to make me feel hap­py with­out feel­ing cheap. Both of the movies fea­ture the music of Joe Hisaishi, whom I feel is a ter­ri­bly good com­pos­er. He tru­ly cre­ates beau­ti­ful music which com­ple­ments both mood and vision.