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Whew. Conference #1 of my "crazy season" is done. Went off without any major hitches. Well, other than the fact that the bathrooms in the hotel we were using kept flooding on Thursday. But...whatever. The Sales Manager at the hotel told me that they are going to start expanding their management team within the next few months since they have been seeing an increase in revenue over the past year. He said, and I quote, "We know you'll be done with school in a couple months. If you keep us in mind, we'll keep you in mind." I love the fact that I had all this time while I was in school to get a really solid network going. I am feeling MUCH more positive about finding a job when I am done with school.

I got some kind of terrifying news this week. One of my long-time friends had a seizure at work. One minute he's on the phone - the next he's in the ambulence on the way to the hospital. He's 32 (or he will be in about a week)...it's his first one EVER. He spent a couple days in the hospital having tests run. They couldn't find anything on first inspection, but he's going to see a neurologist on Wednesday. It could be something simple - overexhaustion, poor diet, a random one-time mis-firing of the stuff in his brain. It could be something much more serious - late on-set epilepsy (only 6% of people with epilepsy make it to their 30's without having a seizure), brain tumors, other things that are no good. Ugh. He's been special to me for a long time and I am really worried about him, but I'm not his mother or his girlfriend and I know the situation embarassed him, so I'm trying not to make a big deal about it. I want to hug him and comfort him. I want to go stay with him so that he's not alone if it happens again. I want to do SOMETHING, but guys can get annoyed when women are being pesky and worried, so I'm trying to act cool...offer support without pushing. He shared the situation with me, but I don't know how many of our mutual friends he shared it with, so I figured here was a safe place to get it off my chest without spilling his secrets.

I am so glad that spring is coming. We had a couple 60-degree days this week. I opened all the windows in my house to get that weird winter-funk out. And sunshine makes me feel MUCH happier.

I have been so busy lately that there are no groceries in the house, I am out of clean socks, and the dogs shredded a bunch of paperwork on the livingroom floor that's been there for about a week now, so this will be a cleaning/errand-running kind of weekend.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!