Picture of the beautiful leaves outside our apartment in Rock Creek community. We finally started packing and are looking forward to moving to our new home.
I am too lazy to type Chinese today. It just takes me too much time to type Chinese on the pure English keyboard which doesn't have any label to help me type Chinese.
It is just another very rough week. I can't believe I am still alive. 
Thanks to God for loving me so much. Like what I mention in the previous blog, we have been pushed very hard to reach the goal set for this quarter. This week is the worst week I have ever had since I joined Intel. There are just too many excursions popping out at my layers. I am totally overwhelmed by overworking. It just feels like I am a 24X7 working machine. I don't even have time for breakfast and lunch but drink lots of coffee so that my brain can still function without crashing myself due to lack of sleep........ 
Last night was Halloween night and I was working at the computer and analyzing the data for the excursion. Sounds very pathetic...Can't believe Intel works me harder than the PhD degree.
On the one-on-one meeting with my manager this Thursday, I just poured out all the grumbles. He knows that I have a rough week. He asked "do you work 18 hr a day this week?" I replied "Yes". He looked at me with compassion saying “this is too much”. I am grateful that my manager is an easygoing and funny Scottish who understands his people's situation. He said he will get me an helper. But he is forgetful. I'd better remind him of what he has promised.
Despite of the unpleasant overwork, there are still some enjoyable parts from my colleagues. I am lucky to work with a very nice GL (group leader) who listens to whatever I said and trusts me very much.
He is a tall, single, gentle, smart, and good-looking 36-years-old American with a very good sense of humor. HAhaha..it is too bad that I can't hook him up with my single female friends because most of my single female friends are in Taiwan not in the U.S. 
Other engineers in our team are very good to me as well. Probably because there are only 2 female (including me) in our ~20 people team. Thank God for creating me to be female. I have gained much favor from the disproportionate number of women in the engineering.
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