it's already been three weeks since i started my internship and i haven't really accomplished anything. there is a lot of red-tape in a company that is large and extremely conscientious about its costs, and it is tough to get this finished. i have started three projects and all of them have been bottlenecked by the IT department or our reservation system vendor. but it still comes down to the issue of whether i like my job, and i love it. the sad thing is, i probably won't work there after graduation since, as the head of marketing has said quite a few times, they won't be able to afford me. but i understand since it's so hard to even spend $2000 in the company. one of my big tasks in the next two weeks is to convince the company that we need to spend $60,000 on a new analytics system.

so school or work? definitely work. school is great because i learned so much and actually enjoyed and applied what i learned, but work is better because... i just don't like school.

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on another note, churches in the area of atlanta (decatur) that aileen and i have been visiting are quite different. aileen and i have been staking out the presbyterian churches and because there are so many churches in a 5-mile radius, naturally supply is greater than demand, so there are all these beautiful church buildings, but maybe 30 people at a service. so it's very empty... and we're usually the youngest in the sanctuary by at least 30 years, with the exception of maybe two people. we're going to try, per pj's request, first baptist... the king of all churches. i'm even going to try a korean church to see what it's like. my experience of churches in atlanta so far have been quite the different experience than san francisco (kcpc and citychurch).

wow, i basically forced this entry.