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So tomorrow is the most important interview of my life for what is basically my dream job. Thankfully, I have already gotten through the flu (and a weekend rugby tour, which usually results in some sort of injury) so I feel that I should get through tomorrow relatively unscathed. Well, maybe a bruised ego is in the works.
Besides interviewing I also am winding up this term's work which includes writing a business plan for my laundry service idea, some analytical marketing, and some negotiations.
Celebrated Thanksgiving last night with some Yank friends and then again tonight (the "real" Thanksgiving) with other students in the North American Club at school. I am pretty much done with turkey until Christmas.
So, if I get through the next two weeks, I am off to Argentina on the 10th of December. It's nice to have something to look forward to.

After the week I had two weeks ago, wiith 4 interviews and a lot of other stuff that had to be done, I knew that I would need some downtime to recover. What I didn't realize was that my immune system was going to make that decision for me. After Guy Fawkes weekend, I had one last 5-hour interview with one consulting firm on Monday. (I had already received a good batch of rejections after some other interviews to really put me in the spirit.) When I woke up on Monday morning, I felt a slight bit under the weather, but pulled a suit on and dragged myself down to the office
Over the course of the interview (which consisted of a written test, a roleplay and two cases) I felt worse and worse. By the time I left I was sweating, shivering and unable to form a coherent sentence. When I finally got home, I was in full-on flu. The rest of the week consisted of little sleep, deleriousness, every possible symptom of illness and being unable to eat.
Fortunately, I was able to get better enough to go to Paris as was planned, however I definitely was not in the best state of mind for tourism. We got back today and I need to now catch up on all the missed work and prepare for another interview on Wednesday. My priority is to get back into better health which may mean taking it as easy as possible. Unfortunately, I am off to Paris again next weekend with the Rugby Club. I'm sure that will do wonders for my immune system.

To say that last week was exhausting would be an understatement.
Even though the Media Summit is over, there is still some wrap-up work to cover. I also had four interviews last week with one more to come on Monday. I have heard back from some of the companies with whom I have interviewed and have had some mixed results. Rejection is never fun, regardless of whether it is from a place that I really liked or a place that I had a lukewarm feeling towards. But two of my top picks are still on the table, so I am excited about that.
Guy Fawkes was this weekend. Went down to Clapham to see the fireworks there and then on to a friend's house for beers and curried goat. Last night (Saturday) our communal garden had a bonfire, which was a good time to finish a bottle of wine and relax.
Arctic air has been pressing down on the UK, so it has become a lot colder. I will be off to Paris next weekend with the girlfriend and then back to Paris the next weekend with the Rugby team to play INSEAD. Even though it will be two weekends in the same city, I would assume that the experiences will differ wildly.

Just after I slept through a weekend while recovering from the summit, [Ed: New follow-up website is live right now at http://www.londonmediasummit.com] I stepped right into a week of interviews (five in total). This is a good thing and I am honestly excited that I got this far (especially with both of my top picks).

However, interviews are exhausting and I have already received some bad news, in the form of rejection, which is never good for the ego.

Classes are getting rougher, and there workload is picking up, second year project has not progressed (my fault) and the SA provides plenty of work.

Yet, there is light at the end of the tunnel: The London Business School Rugby Club tour to Argentina. I leave in 39 days.