Snow in Dublin, again!

You know those days when everything is going so well but then you have one little thing go wrong and it doesn't ruin the day but it sorta makes you go, "what the hell world, what the hell?" You know because you thought it was gonna be a good thing and then it turned out to not be such a good thing? Yea, well today was like that...actually this week has been like that so far.

It all started yesterday when my Entrepreneurial Management prof told the class that Porter's 5 forces model, you know the one I have been using in everything for the last 2.5 years had not only added a 6th force but also is completely irrelevant to today's marketplace? Really? Really right now?

And as of today, I can officially say that I have biked in every kind of weather that is common to the Northern Hemisphere. I have biked in sunshine, clouds, overcast, drizzle, rain, freezing rain, hail, sleet, and now SNOW. I was all excited due to it snowing while I was at school today. Right up until the moment I realized that I still had to bike home...not so cool then. But on the brightside, biking in February in Maine is not something I would ever get to do and I will most likely never get to bike in actual snow again.

I had a class in the morning, to which I paid absolutely no attention and instead created a cover letter for an internship, tweaked my facebook page, and meandered around the Internet. After this, I waited around for 3 hours, watched "New Moon" in this time, only to remember the reason I hadn't re-watched it yet, yea it makes me want to go read the 3rd novel, which is currently at home and I will not have access to for 3 months, goody.

So then it was meeting time. But my group member screwed up the presentation and we had to spend that time redoing her efforts. Okay, no problem, I had some time to kill and I had to be there anyways. So we wrapped that up and I jumped over to my next meeting. Sat down with the group, banged out the answers for our case study, not a problem. Then we briefly brainstormed ideas for the project that is due after we come back from break but didn't finalize anything. Left that meeting at exactly 4pm.

At this point, I had one hour to make it home and prep for my interview at 5pm. So I raced to the bathroom to change into my riding clothes, then remembered that I had to return a book to the library. So I quickly re-dressed and dashed over to the library, almost knocking over some people along the way and made it to that stupid card scanner that you have to use in order to even GET into the library. Got thru there, opened my bag, pulled out the book, shoved it through the slot, zipped everything back up, adjusted my bag on my shoulders and made my way to the scanners to let myself back out again.

After this, I walked through the snow to my bike and luckily the snow wasn't sticking, only making things wet, grrrrrreeat. Well at least it should have been an easy ride home. Made it back to the apartment after almost getting creamed by 4 buses: one due to a giant puddle I was trying to avoid, one due to a car stopping in front of the bus, one bus pulling out in front of me, and another that I pulled into a driveway to avoid because the lane was too narrow. So I got back to my street and saw two of my roommates (shout out Lexi and Morgan) ready to walk in. I had them take my key out of my pocket and hold the door so that I could get my bike in. I'm dripping water all over the place at this point due to the fact that the snow turned to sleet/freezing rain on the way home. I walked up the stairs and was stopped by the boys who had a question. After I helped them, I asked the time and they scared the hell out of me when they said 5 o'clock!

Fortunately it was only 4:40pm and I still had enough time to get ready and dressed (a little) for my interview. So I stripped off my wet clothing,washed the mud off my face, set up my laptop, threw on a button up and some shorts and stood in front my closet where I would wait for the interviewer to sign on so that I could Skype him. He signed on, I called, and I think it went well. It's all a matter of waiting now, which is fine by me. I still have to keep applying to summer internships and such, so I have some time to kill, plus you know the usual schoolwork or whatever if I feel the need...

So goals for the week:
-Get in touch with contact for entrepreneur interview
-Pick topic and start Irish History essay
-Post pictures of snow both here and on FB
-Apply for publishing internship

And this Saturday is the trip to the Newgrange Neolithic Tombs, so that should be fun!