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I finally got round to updating my Coroflot profile with some work. It’s not much, but it’s something. I’ll be putting more up there in the weeks to come.

Go on! Check it out at coroflot.com/nourmalaeb. You know you wanna!

So close! I’m in the airport in Amman, Jordan, waiting to get on the plane. Apparently, even though the gate is open, we can’t go through yet. Makes no sense, I know.

In keeping with the picture at each airport thing, here’s me in Amman, being bored. More colourful than the others, isn’t it?

What’s wrong with that picture? (Besides it being a pretty bad one - I took it with my phone’s camera in low light, and it was so bad in colour that I had to make it black and white to look halfway decent)

That’s the faceplate on an elevator I got into at the JFK airport in New York. It took me a good 10 or 15 seconds to figure out exactly which button to push. Why do the numbers on the left not match the numbers on the right?? Why are there even two sets of numbers in the first place?????

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Finals are over. A pretty tiring experience. I got everything done though.

I won’t be going back to SCAD until next fall. I recently interviewed for an internship position at Husqvarna, an outdoor products maker. I got offered the position, and accepted, and will be starting in January. I’m excited; I’m going to be sketching up tons of concepts, researching human factors and ergonomics issues, presenting ideas to marketing, collaborating with experienced designers, and just learning A LOT in general. Can’t wait! I’m going to miss SCAD though. I’ve spent more time at the industrial design building in the past year than I have anywhere else.

Because I’m not coming back to SCAD next quarter, I had to move all my stuff out of my room. Normally, at the end of the school year students are given until 5 pm the day after last day of classes to get moved out. But for winter quarter, they only gave me until noon the day after classes. I was packing for 7 hours and still didn’t get everything out on time. My RA was really cool about it though, and I ended up getting more time. I left at a reasonable 3 pm. It was still really tiring.

I had to pack again for my trip back home to Lebanon. That was easier though. Hardest thing was making sure that anything fragile was sufficiently padded with clothes to prevent damage. I’m getting better at this packing thing! Still not my favourite thing to do though.

Now I’m at the airport in Atlanta, waiting at the gate for my flight to JFK airport in New York City. I managed to avoid wireless internet fees by using my phone as a bluetooth modem (I have an unlimited data plan from AT&T). Setting it up was confusing, but it worked! Gotta love my brother’s new MacBook. The connection is kinda slow. I wonder why my HSDPA enabled handset isn’t getting blazing fast 3G speeds. Ah well, at least I’m online.

Here’s me being exhausted from one of the most stressful weeks of my life, waiting a the gate so I can fall asleep reading Don Norman’s “Design of Everyday Things” on the flight to NYC. Taken, of course, with the built-in iSight on my brother’s MacBook. Hi y’all!

…because everything always seems to come up around finals. I have to get a lot done before Friday, and not all of it is schoolwork.

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