Work was quite interesting today. One wouldn’t have thought it would have been too terribly hard; we only had two families visiting. However, a combination of one of the prospective students having a broken toe and walking on crutches, and both of them having similar yet different schedules made it intriguing. On top of that, apparently my communication skills are fairly bad. I called the person who was meeting with these students two hours before they were supposed to be there and I left a message detailing the issues and letting her know that we would be about fifteen minutes late. Of course, that message was never received, so I got a call on my cell phone with an urgent request to know where I was (I was actually walking through the door right at that time). Other than that, the day has been going well - I have worked on setting up appointments for future visits (hopefully they will work out better than this visit today), checking the list of students which I will be calling to see how they are doing in their college decision, and answering numerous questions from parents and students. Not to mention the fact that some really weird guys - Brian Clifton and Terrel Fish - stopped by the office. Yikes! There you have it, another day in the life of a guy who works in the National Scholars office.
Ahh, the first morning back to Men’s Fraternity. I always love it once I get there, but those early mornings as my alarm plays some joyful tune make me wish that I were a polar bear in hibernation. Today was a good introduction of what we will be covering throughout the semester - I am certainly looking forward to some more wonderful insight!
I got together with Jay Hudson yesterday to talk about the possibility of working up at Coca-Cola as a benefits manager/project coordinator and found out more information about the job. It sounds like it would be fairly challenging, as I would need to learn some new software programs, would be interacting with both insurance agents and administrative personnel, and would be working on new projects dealing with both accounting and benefits issues. At this point in time, it sounds like the job would open up around the beginning of May (possibly slightly sooner), which would be just about perfect (assuming that God gives me the go-ahead to take the job) since I have committed to work at the National Scholar’s office through the middle of May. Certainly no final decisions have been made as of yet, but at this point in time, my gut-level feeling tells me I would really enjoy this job. I would get to work with Jay Hudson, would be learning a lot, and would be staying pretty busy while at work - sounds like a good combination!
In other news, today we will be welcoming our new roommate from Korea, Young Chun Kim. I will be picking him up from the airport at 7:00 this evening. I am looking forward to meeting him and getting to know him, looking forward to the possibility of learning a bit of Korean, and definitely looking forward to the possibility that I could learn to cook some Korean food. Sadly, our duplex is still somewhat furniture-less (I know, that really isn’t a word, but it really fits the situation) so we won’t have a nicely decorated duplex to welcome him to. That should change here soon, though (if your couch disappears, pretend nothing ever happened :-p).
Check out 1 Corinthians 1:20-31! I read that this morning and was reminded of the glory of God - certainly something it never hurts to be reminded of. It amazes me to no end that God is willing to use us to shame the wise of the world!