Even after graduating from BYU a little over two months ago, I still sometimes catch myself thinking about what upcoming assignments I have or some other school-related topic. In fact, just last night I had a dream, in which I decided to skip a class because I was already late (this never, ever happened in real life...no, not ever).

The funny thing is that as my senior year drew to a close, I was so exciting to be getting away from student life. I wanted to get out and work on some cool projects. But a few times during my first week at Northrop Grumman, I actually found myself thinking how nice it would be to be a student again. Crazy, I know. I figure that those moments of temporary insanity result from the fact that I was in a new, uncomfortable environment, so I wanted to revert to something I was used to...like going to classes. But, as I said, those moments were temporary, even if the insanity isn't.

All in all, things at work aren't as bad as they could have been. Even though it took a week before I was actually assigned some work to do (and no, I was reading a newspaper...I was reading an exciting training manual), things are going pretty well right now. I'm actually working on the middleware for a software-defined radio. Now, I don't understand everything about software-defined radios (I leave that to the EE freaks), so I won't even try to get into explaining that. But as for the middleware, the basic gist is that we want to be able to run a GUI on a client computer and the real application on a server somewhere. So, by using XML-RPCs, I can do just that. All that's really happening is that some XML messages are getting passed back and forth. The fact that XML-RPC is built into Python has really made it easy. So, while I haven't really done anything that I'd consider really awesome, it was fun to learn something new and actually write some code.

So that's pretty much been the last three weeks for me. Oh, I almost forgot. I play at least five game of foosball each workday.