rants by Ariane su kanji

So today was the big meeting with the co-ops and the Staff (plant manager and the department heads etc) where we presented some of the ideas the co-ops in February came up with to change the fridges to make/save money. We had been warned that they generally do a lot of asking questions, lots of interrupting, and can be pretty harsh with new ideas. Surprisingly, we got a lot of positive feedback for the work we had done, the concepts we had chosen to start pursuing, and some contacts we could make to start the process of implementation. One of the other co-ops commented that we are frequently asked to introduce ourselves and where we are from, and it was the first time they had seen the big boys do the same thing. I was kind of amused, but then I was the one who asked them to do the whole 'introduce yourself' thing.... Oh well. I think I am a little less intimidated by them now which is good: its hard to ask for help and be agressive when you are afraid of someone. Anyway, the presentation went over really well, they asked us to start following through on the ideas we presented and then my roomie goes back to the office to find that they already have on the one she was looking at! Hooray for speedy processing! The one I was working on may also be possible to implement with a bit of re-tooling the geometry of a mould.

On the downside, since I am working OT tonight I don't get to do dinner with Will. We had talked about him coming down for dinner after I get back from the gym and then just spending some time together since he is on break, but that isnt going to happen when I am here til after 11pm. Oh well, he needed to work on his senior project anyway. Off to try to implement my Wiki :-)