Strange Day

Today was definitely a strange day. This morning I awoke to e-mails forwarded from Egypt that a friend, teacher, and mentor of mine from my last few years of high school, Dan Andrews, had been killed on a school trip to the Red Sea. I posted the Embassy’s statement earlier when I got it, but since then I have learned that there was a cooking fire on the boat, and apparently the heat set off a few high concentration O₂ SCUBA diving tanks. I think to all of the people who knew Mr. Andrews and studied under him he was a great person. I had the opportunity to work with him for a year on Model United Nations-related business, both at CAC and in The Hague. He also introduced me to the world of photography (the more professional, artsy kind) and helped both Josh Sims and I to develop our skill. He will definitely be missed, but always remembered everytime I expose a frame of film or think about the United Nations.

On an entirely more positive note, I was selected for an interview with Factset which I immediately scheduled for next Wednesday (2/18/04) morning. I’m definitely excited, it would be a great job with a great company. Any more on this subject will likely be friends-only, so stay tuned!

Tonight I’m pretty much taking it easy, watching some ER (a show I used to watch all the time but haven’t seen in a few months) and perhaps catching up with STS later.