From:  "Amy Harrand" 
Subject:  ALU 1/29/2001 
Date:  Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:24:10 -0500 
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Hi, 

Here's my ALU: 

"Things at work are feeling like the deadline draws nigh.... today was somewhere between walking on a bed of 
hot coals and a religios experience.  If you consider flagellation with a rosary a religious experience. 

Yeah, it hurt. 

But it'll be over soon. 

Whether for better or worse, we don't know.  Basically what caused me so much pain today was realizing that 
I may have to redo everything I've ever done _tomorrow_.   Yeah, that even made you wince, didn't it?" 

copied from an e-mail to my mother. 

I'm also taking 2 classes, and my first hmwk is due Thursday night, so I'm cancelling cartoons tonight (I'm 
watching Nadesico, it's great). 

I'm hoping to take this weekend off; I worked the last 3. 

My study of Japanese is going well.  I'm learning verb tenses and little noun modifying words (I can't 
remember the name for 'em, but they mean things like "of" "to" and "belonging").  I've finished learning 
my first (of 3) japanese alphabets.  So now when I actually KNOW japanese, I can worry about reading it ^_^ 

And for those of you I haven't told yet: I got a hellasweet raise on the 10th.  A really, REALLY sweet 
raise.  Yeah, I'm getting that BMW now baby! 

Apparently I work hard and it pays off! ^_^ 

I hope you have enjoyed the work description, remember to pray for me. 

-Amy 

From:  "Amy Harrand" 
Subject:  Second ALU 
Date:  Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:43:50 -0500 
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All things are better, work is going well, in fact here's what Ed (my boss's boss) said this mornin': 

"I'm heading for the airport right now - but I just wanted to let everyone know that we blew their socks 
off in the demo yesterday.... I'd say a home run!! ... I know everyone really put in the extra effort to 
get the job done - we wouldn't have been successful without that extra effort.  A big thanks to everyone!! 

Ed" 

Yay!  We did good! 

-Amy 

And if you want to learn about Hiragana you can try to catch up with me :-P~