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[Mar. 16th, 2007|10:01 pm] |
Sarah was saying the other day I hadn't written in ages... it is true. I feel like nothing ever happens in my life.
For instance, right now I'm in this on-going employment crisis. This isn't news. I've been in this mindset since September. If I had written about it once a week since September, I would probably be even more agitated than I currently am. And my complaining certainly would have lost all entertainment value 50 words in.
But as for that, the thing is, no one ever told me that you go to college in order to get a job. And that what you do in college prepares you for that job. No, all I ever heard from my dean and various advisors was that I should study whatever interested me. And I did. Which worked fine for the past four years, except now I'm graduating with a worthless degree that retails at $175,000. Does saying I have a brain filled with $175,000 worth of information get me a job? No. Afraid not. I guess it is fine and good to tell students to follow their bliss if the school has a 300-year history of educating those with enough family friends that it is perfectly fine that they had a 6-figure extestentialist adventure instead of getting job skills because their first job was lined up at birth. The problem with the system of advisement comes in when you start letting in students on financial aid. Of course, I could always go into the family business. I could enlist. |
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| Committed |
[Apr. 12th, 2006|05:17 pm] |
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Dropped off my commitment form at UCS today. I am officially spending the summer in New Delhi working with Udayan Care! |
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[Apr. 8th, 2006|04:47 pm] |
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In terms of time-wasting, my favorite activity of reading celebrity gossip has now been superceded by making travel plans. I'm mostly convinced that this is all going to fall apart (a worry exacerbated by the fact that UCS still hasn't sent me information on travel, housing and visa applications because they're waiting to finish their hiring and then e-mail everyone). ( But as my job is ridiculously cool, this had better not fall apart. )
Also, I can't get my funding to buy my ticket until UCS has me sign the commitment form-- again, waiting for all the interns to be hired and accept positions before working out the details of this. Which I can see as being the sensible thing for them to do, but at the same time, I'm worried that airline prices will go up or that I'll have difficulty getting a visa and passing time seems to inhibit my plan-making.
But as UCS is handling all the details related to my housing, I have been focusing on planning my travel adventures with Daniel. ( More detail? ) |
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[Mar. 20th, 2006|08:22 pm] |
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LJ is lame now because no one writes. Every few weeks I remember it. I'm part of the non-writing trend too, of course. I used to have a lot to say (freshman year) but now it seems impersonal and irrelevant. |
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[Feb. 9th, 2006|12:29 pm] |
Off to mail my federal tax return-- $360 will soon be credited to my account. While at the time, it blows to have large amounts of money removed from your paycheck, in other ways it's good. Like I would have spent at least some of that $360 and much of what I did spend would certainly go to useless things like diet coke and Thai food. But I will get the whole lump sum right in time for spring break.
Speaking of spring break, the plan currently is to spend 5 days with Curt in Boston and 10 days in Perry doing research/going to Walmart. Having two weeks is WONDERFUL. Best thing about Yale, hands down. I'm a little nervous about being at Curt's for nearly a week. I met his parents once last September and will be seeing them again today (hence the pile of recently tried-on clothes around my bed), but that's pretty minimal exposure. Who knows what I'm getting myself into. I mean, they live in a bed and breakfast so they're used to having guests, but I have a feeling I'm going to end up upsetting their super-liberal (Cambridge) Quaker (pacifist) values. |
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[Jan. 6th, 2006|12:13 am] |
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I feel like the best classes are ones I've taken with friends-- like Religion in Modern America, Foster Care and Fundamental Rights, and Intro Psych. Now I don't know if the classes are better because the friends are there or because I am friends with people far more interesting with myself who pick far more interesting classes than I do. But I resolve to take at least one class with at least one awesome person (Jenny, Carolynn, Amanda, for example) in it. |
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| People who are useless: |
[Jan. 6th, 2006|12:03 am] |
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People who start fights over stupid shit with their girlfriends for mental excercise and then mope on the phone when they don't take the bait. And don't get the point that their girlfriends don't want to have stupid arguments and keep trying to pick them every time they talk to them.
(Curt is useless.)
People who wear fur. Now, don't get me wrong. Meat tastes good. Leather beats pleather any day of the week. There are more animal shelters than women's shelters in this country and I find that unacceptable. Generally, I find all members of PETA to be pretty damn useless too. But fur reeks! And sometimes the little minks and foxes still have mouths and eyes.
(Paris Hilton is useless.)
People who want to be there for their best friends when things suck-- really, really, really, suck-- but have nothing better to say than "Wow, that sucks." That's not support-- that's stating the obvious!
(I am useless.) |
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| So what have I been doing the past two days? |
[Dec. 23rd, 2005|11:34 pm] |
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I wouldn't say they were days wasted, but they were certainly days LOST.
Have you guys seen this show? I watched ALL 24 episodes of the first season and the "special feather" added by the Chinese pirate who put together the DVD set Matt got off Ebay (clearly recorded off the tv-- has the ABC logo in the corner!). And now I need more. STAY AWAY from this tv show.
Ooh, I love, love, LOVE Christmas break! |
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| Three wishes |
[Oct. 17th, 2005|10:21 am] |
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If I could have three wishes, the first thing I would want would be for the janitor to coincide the lengthy bathroom-cleaning period with some sort of schedule other than "whenever Karen needs to take a shower."
My second wish would be for a magic house elf, sort of like Doby, but a hell of a lot smarter so he could write my papers and so I wouldn't have to listen to the dopey mangling of the English language. I can do that on my own, thanks.
My third wish would be for a pomegranate. Tis nearly the season!
And world peace, I think, would inevitably follow, so no need to wish for that! |
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[Oct. 2nd, 2005|04:34 pm] |
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I'm buyng my first bottle of legally-acquired wine tomorrow after dinner with Chase!
I will so need it after this anatomy midterm. It's seriously kicking my sacrrum and coccyx and the force extered is causing compression of my nucleus pulposis. Which feels even more pleasant than it looks. If only I could explain the innervation to you so you could truly understand my pain, but the nervous system is well, what I'm most nervous about. |
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| Some people suck |
[Sep. 30th, 2005|03:42 pm] |
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There are two kinds of people who suck:
Those that suck and they don't know it. If you were to inform them that they suck, they would get insulted or angry or think you were joking or break into tears. And that's just inconvienent.
Those that suck and they do know it. If you were to inform them that they suck, they would say, "Yes, this is true. That's just how I am." Which implies you're trying to change them. Which then makes you suck, not them. This second kind of sucking is just unacceptable.
So here's to those in denial! |
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[Sep. 25th, 2005|12:02 am] |
Bad day:
Trip near SSS, stumble, knock knee soundly, end up on back; swolleness, bruising, inability to walk follow.
Discover latex allergy.
Waiting for Wednesday.
Accomplish nothing.
Good day:
Veggie burger made with curry and lentil beans.
Make mosaic picture frame.
Get Carolynn to watch Sex and the City.
Not stressing about accomplishing nothing. |
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[Sep. 19th, 2005|08:23 pm] |
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Is this a secret? I'm bad at secrets. I mean, knowing when things are a secret. So if you explictly tell me, "this is a covert opperation" I wouldn't announce on the internet that I can't believe you have $500 and I get to help you use it to cover Berkeley with anonymous art and that I'm tremendously excited and tremendously impressed at your creative brilliance and Yale's willingness to fund graffiti. (Which reminds me, you never did send me that picture of the first time we wrote poetry in krylon in the Boston burbs.) If you tell me it's a secret, no one will ever know. But you have to tell me. |
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[Aug. 24th, 2005|12:06 am] |
Back to school tomorrow!
Well, really today, I guess. I have to get up at like 5.00am and I'm wondering if there's any point at all to sleeping.
I feel so not-at-home at home. I don't feel like I ever lived in Perry. I feel like there was some movie set in Perry that I watched like 4000 times so it's all very familiar but not from my experience at all. I want to go back to my life now. |
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| On dentist visits: |
[Aug. 11th, 2005|03:06 pm] |
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How can one with such a low alcohol tolerance have such a high novicane tolerance?
Three hours later, I still look like I've gotten some bad Botox. |
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| My car: |
[Jul. 2nd, 2005|01:00 pm] |
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| More things I want: |
[Jun. 28th, 2005|04:45 pm] |
Digital camera.
Stamps that don't have Mickey Mouse on them, thanks for nothing stupid postal lady who gave me no choice after me going through the effort of getting there before work because I didn't want the stupid flag ones from the machine because if you have to support the war to support the troops to support freedom, than I choose to be anti-freedom. (I'm really 95% joking here. Though I'm pissed about the stamps. Because everyone knows if you want something other than antique toy cars or flag you have to ask for it at the desk and people who I want to like me so much I am writing them letters which outrank e-mails will first see the Mickey Mouse stamp and judge me harshly.)
MEAT. And the award for worst vegetarian ever goes to... me. (Q: You don't eat meat? A: No. Q: It tastes good. A: Damn straight.)
New and improved post-its that can stay stuck to my steering wheel long enough for me to follow the directions I wrote on them.
To have a private jet so I don't have to do 1100 miles of driving this weekend.
A private jet where they serve meat.
I'm off work and off to go cook some chicken. More soy tomorrow, I swear. |
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[Jun. 26th, 2005|11:47 am] |
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Sometimes when you get what you want it is confusing and disconcerting and does not fit into your long-range plan. I feel like when I get what I want I screw things up on purpose. |
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