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Monday, September 18th, 2006
8:07 pm	there and back again Poof! single again. Not in a terrible way, but not really in a happy way either. naturally, happens when im a bit less crazybusy thanks to a more reasonable courseload and a concomitant lightening of work-induced crazyness. I havent really had free, empty time for...a year? I dont know what to do with it. Today's the first day of this business, but its actually rather full since insomnia led to gymmissing this morning, which yields nightyming now! but once the week gets rolling it will be odd. Plan on renewing commitment to frantic goingoutness and partythrowing,and lots of reading that needs to be done. Hausdorff Spaces, categorical imperatives, singleton patterns, cognition things, all that bidness!... and theres class I suppose, with Zoran Djordjevic, fills some time. Maybe ill finish the design patterns project. twas fun to do! I definitely like cable, and now more fully understand why jess and philip loved having full cable powers oh so much, it is purdy super neat,but now its gym time. Current Music: pulp, disco 2000 (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
3:09 pm	mew I am such a super lucky duck. life is meeptacular. Current Music: mates of state! and at work no less. yay ipods (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 18th, 2005
4:37 pm	party Life is crazy, but after wed there is at least no schoolio for a while! The party was fun. I was stripped by girls and then further stripped and felt up by some gay boys. and there was hipstermocking dancing with fun folks. Now i must postgymshowerpower and do more work on my database thingie. meep! Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: my heater (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
10:26 pm	kittens I am super busy! life revolves around the ms.cs courses, the gym, german, and of course verk I like verk, and I like my fellow verkers I am quite amazed at the seemingly infinite latitude I have been given and at the scope of the projects I seem to be permitted to just plain...do..by myself! oh wowsers. meow Current Mood: awake Current Music: mates of state (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 16th, 2005
12:07 pm	meow Got a job, been to some stochastics seminars, lots of excermacise, some hopeful strands in girlland but nothing "solid", trying to read more, cook more. must do fondue with ms mikita and co. soon. oooh and nyc soon! eee. oh and classes classes classes. oh me oh my. id kind of like a pie. nah. oooh but i do want a steak. I havent had one in almost two years. and no meat for a few months now. I think it is meattreat time, or will be soon! oh meep. mmmm so full of that soy chai drink of deliciousness mmmm <3 in conclusion, kittens with mittens. Current Mood: full Current Music: chalets (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
2:14 pm	kittens meep! so I thought I was showing up for a 1 hour behavioral interview...nope! 5 hours of quant/behaviorals. yay. and in between, a TV with rita and dire predictions for my city. The interviews went ok, but if I had known about the quant ones I would have been better prepared and definitely would have had cleaner and more methodical solutions. Got the stuff right though, eventually. Rita seems to be wussing out, thankfully. 80s night was fun, went post biglebowsking with ms marissa, met some random kittens, yay. marissa lost her keys but we found them on comm ave. more of the waiting game, applied to a few new things this morning, will apply to another two soon as I overcome my coverletter aversion. god I hate coverletters so much. Gyming way late thanks to hangover sleep, but not missing a day! so yeah, drinking, dancing, interviewing, coding, reading. Apparently I need to learn about multithreading and distributed computation, it seems to pop up alot in quant job reqs. and of course perl and shell scripting. Im def doing a CS MS, not an infosys ms. Zlateva told me itd be better, and upon further examination she's quite right, most of the infosys classes are a waste of time for me. I always wanted to take classes in algorithms and neuralnets and computability and such, and now i will! plus a few less interesting ones in database stuff just to cement my cred for future apps. datamining might be neat though, im not sure. It has the potential to be very neat, and its the sort of thing that a genetic ai thing might be designed for...meep. okie done! gymtime Current Mood: busy Current Music: okkervil river (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, September 19th, 2005
11:50 am	The sun is back! and it was kind enough to bring only a smidgeon of heat. Playing more of the waiting game + programming + usual readingness + gym = life friday was super fun... I think! Now that marissa lives here I have someone with whom to do things that involve both vaguely scenesterish indulgence + being over 21, so we went to the Pill. I saw hipster shannon and she was friendly, then I think I saw web guy, and the 35 yr old woman. However I got ridiculously trashed and everything is very vague in my mind. I do remember getting home and then going back for Marissa's coat and then walking her home...and then dreams about zombies mixed up in the buffyverse. Definitely time for a new round of cooking experimentation, to begin tomorrow. I guess that means more dinner partyness. yeah, there needs to be some more o that as well. hrm, lately I've been talking to shanko and remembering how much I miss my tams friends. that still pretty much remains the high point of my life. Although, honestly, I was very happy this time last year. Things seemed to be moving forward, and I felt, well, full, with cordelia (granted, she isnt someone I would want to be with now, but at the time it seemed ok...) and the mathfin bit, I felt stressed, sure, but I felt like I was covering all my bases in a sense. I havent felt that way since, and dont know when I will again. I am amazingly rusty at c++ coding, luckily software engineering is forcing me to excercise a bit of codingness before, say, some sort of options pricing interview comes along and I end up looking retarded. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: sons and daughters (Comment on this)
Friday, September 16th, 2005
7:59 pm	so things seem to be moving a bit... but dear lord! for kicks i checked out monster nationwide for quant positions.... BOSTON IS THE WORST PLACE FOR THIS JOBSEARCH there are more opportunities in the following places that are neither nyc nor chicago... delaware charlotte nc virginia dc DALLAS AND HOUSTON most of nj and the list goes on. my hometown, oilsville, likes quants more than this city. amazing. it actually makes me feel better about having such a rough time getting a real quant job here. and golly, dont get me started on nyc. staying here was a terrible idea, really terrible. im still surprised at how lame boston is for my sorta job. how amazingly lame. there is one position in this city that would really suit me. thats about it. ill end up taking something approximate, i know that, but jesus, youd think all these big financial buildings would contain a few quant jobs. but no, there are more in dallas houston and north bloody carolina than here. amazing. boston is just a cesspool of actuaries and accountants. but yeah, depending on how things go i might up and leave this summer, the only thing really binding me here is the good chance that i will get a phd here, since bu is, yet again, pretty much my best bet. if i get the cs masters that im nibbling at part time, that will make 4 degrees, 3 graduate, from this little ole school. jeepers. creepers. todays interview went alot better than i thought it would, now i guess we'll see aboot capitol one on thurs. Im applying for a few newbies too, two of which actually look promising. Sadly im pretty sure state street has forgotten about me, its been like 2 weeks. this company today treated me like something better than offal, and isnt all accountanty or actuaryish, so thats nice. actually, the interviewers and i made fun of accountants and actuaries, heh... Current Mood: awake Current Music: the dears (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, September 12th, 2005
9:02 am	kittenkittenkittenkitten! I got to hang out with a real kitten yesterday! eeeeeeeeee Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: tegan and sarah (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
12:52 pm	I have definitely offended the animal kingdom. 1.) upon lifting rita's box that had been living in my basement for a wee bit, I discover a thriving nest of very, very large spiders. 2.)Immediately after exiting my own front door I hear a rustling in the bushes and am accosted by a skunk ready to spray. I run like a bitch and save myself from a pungent catastrophe. 3.) After riding home from the gym post-lifting this morning, a large bug of some sort flies down my throat. thanks nature. Current Mood: amused Current Music: eliott smith (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, September 5th, 2005
4:37 pm	kittens People are back, yay. Doing yet another grad degree, part timey, starting wed, software engineering and database design things. More or less chugging in the HR recruiting process now, somewhat hopeful. Isolated lately, dont expect that to get any better, most likely worse, but if there is work to be done it will matter less. Way too much buffy, but reality is pretty stale lately anyhow, so owell. Meep Current Mood: listless Current Music: sissy bar (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
6:49 pm	meep Hrm, so the search continues. Probably going to rack up more degrees part time, not sure how the Ph.D will proceed, 'cept that odds are it will proceed in bostonsville. After that, most likely abandoning this town.. Looks like another diaspora is coming, soon. Attempting to take steps that will minimize the impact of living alone come next fall, or possibly summer, as will likely be the case. Definitely prefer morninglifting/evening cardio to making the whole a package. the slight timeloss is worth it. I never thought I would so thoroughly itch for work/school/some sort of obligation, but golly I sure do.It always seems that when I have blank time, I have no one to spend it with in a way I'd like. Theres also the usual void I always feel when nothing romantic is going on. I would really like to meet someone who understands this particular foible, since its one of the big Two in alexland, and always has been. Owell, I really look forward to the jobness that appears to be on the horizon, and especially to the return of a number of super duper missed kittens. dave is moving to quincy, so he will be more accessible, which is nice, I miss showgoing with dave. Oh, and manray's exiles are getting together in somerville saturday, so that will be nice. and lexies bday on friday! it will hopefully be a nice weekend, though the week looks to be pretty dead. Vik is done with his c# thing at least, but jess is gone and philip will most likely be at starbucks all week. I really miss the tams hangouts. I miss having a place that can be reliably visited for pleasant run ins. Espresso was briefly, vaguely such a place, but certainly isnt anymore. Owell, time for cardio! I swear, excercise is the best thing in life right now. Current Mood: blah Current Music: all girl summer fun band (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
4:43 pm	wonderful kittens will be returning to boston town soon! y.a.y. . Current Music: future bible heroes - hopeless (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
2:18 pm	yay www.kittenwar.com it isnt supposed to be 90 in boston. but you know what, kittens fix everything. Current Mood: indifferent Current Music: dar williams (Comment on this)
Monday, August 8th, 2005
6:50 pm	Summer always flies by Current Mood: blah Current Music: shout out louds (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 30th, 2005
4:06 pm	meep! Today is very pretty I managed to burn 825 calories and climb 345 floors while listening to my bloody valentine, it was Fabulous Preachy activists who can't even manage to treat the humans near them decently need to die Apparently, in order to (in the longer run) do the sort of work I'd really like to do, I require a Ph.D. I had been toying with the idea of getting one (after some workness) just because, but apparently it's a mandate. Thats not so terrible, mandates streamline life. Choices are annoying anyhow. Manray dies tonight. Current Mood: calm Current Music: Architecture in Helsinki - Frenchy, I'm Faking (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
7:23 pm	I would really like to cuddle and listen to belle and sebastian Current Mood: content Current Music: guess (Comment on this)
Monday, July 18th, 2005
9:34 pm	meep! interview tomorrow internet is back! yay cause it died for a bit... I got cat food in case the friendly cat comes by. Now he will get more than water! I seem to be drifting into a version of how I was a long time ago. I feel like I am giving up on this vague social ideal and just returning a state that is baseline solitude, only with better peopleness on the periphery... I really want my life to be in some sense fundamentally social, but that involves finding people who share my "scene"-y interests, which just isnt going to happen. The more I give up the better it feels, for now anyhow. I still go out all the time, but I havent an ounce of hope that I will make a single friend who will want to join me in any of a vast swath of the things I do constantly by myself. It hasn't happenned after so many years, and so long as I fail to wear the uniform or be quite "cool" enough, it still probably wont happen. I really have trouble being social at these random things. Seem to have, oddly enough, met a few people at said things, but the big clods are set there as clods and dont form up at outings, they form like old style spontaneous maggots, going by alex-vision anyhow. yeah. I definitely just ate this ancient thing of disgustingly unnatural and preservative laden freezer garlic bread, since I wanted it to die and cease eating space. Now it is eating my insides with its hyperprocessed deathness, but at least it is gone. I wonder how much good healthy eating has done me. hopefully some, since unhealthy food wilts me, so some change has taken place. FER SHUR omgasif.kittens. Current Mood: full Current Music: mozart (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 15th, 2005
11:51 pm	mmm boys and girls. The hidden cameras show was both 1derful and gr8 So I actually tried a little jobsearching and poof! interviews More good shows soon saw the friendly cat today! my bike is a very sad thing, but at least the friendly man blowtorched it to freedom. But apparently getting hit by a car did a little more damage to it than I thought. heh, im presently riding sans rearbreaks! whee.... and with a wobbly wheel...and other things that arent working well, but it is so lovely to be riding again, even hobbled. meow! lessing owns. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: rilo kiley (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 10th, 2005
1:21 pm	kittens Manray is closing....:(.... but reopening! Lets hope they pick a better location than central square.... I met freezepop! They were friendly even though I was akward. I have randomly befriended this group of 35 year old post scenesters that I keep running into. The pattern of preferring older folks to folks my age continues as it has my whole life. Another NYC trip is likely this weekend assuming I can crash with the the crazy Lebanese. oooooh there are good shows this week! mmm girl. or mmm boy. Hidden cameras, dressy bessy, love as laughter, Kay hanley. oh lord yes. Oooh and vhs or beta. DANCEABLE shows. So I keep dragging my feet on the jobsearch...mainly because I really missed going out the past past year, and honestly I was pretty work-overloaded the year before that too...and the year before that I was overloaded but just was a bad kitten and neglected work, etc.... This is the first guilt free pranceable freedom I've had...well, ever really, and I'm reluctant to give it up... But the weirdness of no heaps of labour at my door is wearing me down a bit, so I have been on a quadratic curve of increasing effort shoveling coal on the first train to worksville. Meow. oooh this week I get to talk to Margie! Margie is a magical fairy who lives in the land of Plymouth Rock Investments and has a happy wand that, to the fortunate, may grant a position in the new Quantitative Research Group. I will don my best fairy pheremone cologne and wear my fairydust attracting tie and hope for the best. The end. Current Music: runner and the thermodynamics (3 Comments |Comment on this)