Mouse Pains

You know how in lame kid's movies the klutzy burglars always fall for lame booby traps left around the house? Well, tonight I was both the cleaver kid as well as the klutz. As you all know, I had a run in with a mouse a couple of weeks ago. (I won) . Gavin was already enjoying the fact that I duel it out with random sugar ants, but now I've got mammals I'm battling. So I place a call to the Woodbridge maintenance and request that they take a look at my house and see about resolving the situation. Their resolution was a 4 pack of mouse traps, left on my front porch. Swell. Rather than set the traps out and risk having the ants feast on the bait, I just decided to cross my fingers and hope that the mouse problem had resolved itself. Eh, after two weeks, I figured what the hell, I've only got 3 more weeks in this place, lets set some traps, sans bait. This is my first encounter with traps so I tested the sensitivity of them and wham! smack dab across my thumb, the trap slammed shut! So....morale of the story. Traps work, no need to test them. Now, we'll just see if I actually catch anything...let's hope not.

I can't wait to move into the new place!

-- Falker

Weekend Recap

So I finished the Summer Associate for the consulting firm I work for. It was straight out of the book "The Firm", right down to them entering my room one night to leave us gifts. Freaky.

Anyway, San Diego rocks, it's 71 every day and 69 every night. The midwestern people at my company are real cool, but the northeasterns sucked as was expected. Harvard and Wharton kids seemed pissed that a sarcastic loser from IU has the exact same job as them. Do you guys get this at your jobs this summer too?

I went kayaking in the Pacific Saturday morning, that was a lot of fun. I was planning to kayak over the border to Mexico, but it was like 19 miles south, and I figure the Coast Guard can kayak faster than me, so I'd get caught.

Fun link for everyone to check out: www.kiva.org. It's used as a way to set up micro-loans to 3rd world countries. I opened an account and funded Sounkar Seydi, who is looked to sell clothing in Senegal. It'd be cool if we all take some money from our internships and loan it out to these types of folks.

Hope everyone else had a good week. My internship is 6/10 over!

-- The Esch