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They need to give like, frequent customer discounts at the Post Office. I listed my books that Hope wouldn't take back on half.com. I had 9 listed, I just sold #6. So you know, look into it. You aren't going to get amazing prices for them, unless they're out of print (one of mine was), but like, 3-5 dollars on a book I only paid 10-15 for and Hope only offered me like $1 for isn't bad.

I went to a diversity in the workplace seminar/networking conference at Hope yesterday. It was a good event. The diversity seminar what a lot of what I expected to hear (though there was some thing someone said about "choose your employer, don't have them choose you", and I'm like "yea right, as if I have that luxury"). Use your liberal arts education to study abroad and learn a language! Yea, already got that covered, thanks. Something did hit me while I was listening to them talk. One lady worked for a company that makes mirrors and windows for cars, and I had this little epiphany- 'who's selling all the cars in the US these days? Germans and Japanese! Why have I not thought of this before??'. So yes.
The networking thing. Talked to a few people, mostly from the medical industry it seemed. There was a guy on the panel who was CEO of a global furniture company; I tried to talk to him, but he was clearly not interested in talking to me, or any other students it seemed. Whatever. :P The plus side was that most students bolted after the seminar, so I could actually talk to people without being interrupted by a bunch of other students. I'm sure they have good intentions, but it's really annoying when someone more forward than you comes in and just dominates the conversation.
I did speak to the lady from career services who had given me the alumni contacts. Apparently there are also alumni who are willing to give city tours, so if I wanted to look at say Atlanta or San Diego, or someplace else I don't know anyone but am thinking about looking at, they could give me a feel for the city. Which could be an excellent resource.

Speaking of cities and such, I'm planning at some point to hop down to a few cities for a few days. Just do some job hunting that I wouldn't be able to do when I'm 1000 miles away. It's still a tentative plan, as I haven't actually called anyone to see if it would be ok to stay with them. But it'll happen sometime.

So anyway, back to Holland. I was at the event til 7, and wanted something to eat other than turkey croissant sandwhiches they offered (Hope's croissants kinda suck). That and I was realy craving Crazy Bread. I'd like to say it was like some evening of hanging out and playing games and blah blah, but really, Karen and I just had a Mythbusters marathon til 2am. But watching people blow shit up is fun too.

I'm back in Bridgman now, must get to post office. Later though. I haven't had lunch yet. I bought a french vanilla capuccino at the gas station in Holland to caffinate me (plain coffee is gross), but my stomach isn't really liking it. Me and coffee don't get along apparently. The tums don't seem to be helping much, so I'll wait to eat something, even though it's already 1pm.

Holy shit that was a long entry.

Apparently it was more than the coffee. I don't feel well at all.