and boy let me tell you hiking feverish towards a West Virginia swimming hole was an experience. With any luck Ritzke's place will have a vacancy soon, and that'll take some of the pressure off me: found a job but didn't know til too late that I'd be in Annapolis again next year ( Read more... )

Ira Glass on how storytellers use wrongness."I feel like this is a really weird example to bring up, but he interviews me and Errol Morris about interviewing. It's a really funny chapter because I give all of these totally Pollyanna answers-I mean, things I really believe, but I'm like [here he goes into an earnest falsetto, like a very sincere ( Read more... )

No sarcasm. Seriously. I start at OpenPath on Thursday. Need to pick up further proof of my U.S. residency, but once that is done... I'm employed.

- missing Kristin like hell;

- pretty sure I saw a black widow last night by the driveway;

- building a phonograph player for 45's;

- probably heading to Annapolis tomorrow;

- Job interview on Monday at 2:30;

- listening to this version of "Color In Your Cheeks" by The Mountain Goats on pretty much constant repeat for the last day or so.

No pictures yet, because I need to go through and resize/fix color/choose which ones to post/etc, but if I don't post at least a few impressions soon they will all leak out of my ears and into my pillow, which I may not have around whenever I get around to the picture stuff. So here goes.

Rome

City ImpressionsRome was... big. Alternately a ( Read more... )

Got back last night from Italy. Soon there will be stories and pictures. But for now, I present to you a simple way to learn Go, online, with examples, easy to understand, and fun interactive things:

http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/

In Italy. Internet is expensive.

It's pretty awesome, though. There will be pictures later.

It was a pleasure meeting with you. You are one of the three candidates that we have narrowed it down to. We would like you to come in for a second interview but we will not be able to set that up till until you return from you vacation. We hope this will not be a problem for you. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.Employment ( Read more... )

I graduated.

Huh.

Looted the dorms last night, too.

Pulled a 1985ish Murray Adagio out of the trash on bulk trash night.

Stripped down, it looked like this:


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