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Words from pyat :
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If you're on Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians' access to the internet. Cut & paste & pass it on.

I have decided that that whole thing was a bad idea. Not going to quit my job.

I made the decision today - pretty much irrevocably, though not rudely - to find a new job. I could talk about why for ages, but it wouldn't be productive. At this point, second-guessing would tear me apart.

And yet that's really what's driving me nuts right now. Did I make the right decision? Should I have stuck with it? Did I make a mountain out ( Read more... )

I've been on a 20$ a day budget for... I dunno, maybe 4 weeks now. This budget includes does not include my rent, my medication, my commute expenses, my utilities - anything that's a regular expense that I've incorporated in to my larger budget. I've been keeping track of my expenses pretty thoroughly on my computer ( Read more... )

Quick summary of my life:

• Joined a gym, plus actually working out at said gym. Am astonishingly out of shape, yet I look like an athlete. Conversely, my room-mate looks like a fatto, but can out-run, out-endure, out-lift, and out-fight me with contemptuous ease. Genes lie.
• Work is going smoothly. There were some bumps but they were minor - they only ( Read more... )

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So, how am I doing?

Financially I'm back on my feet. I have employment with a temp agency called Addison Search. Since I am an employee of theirs, I don't have to worry about self employment taxes and I will get health benefits, though not for another month or so. Addison is paid by a company called Edison Mission Marketing & Trading to provide them ( Read more... )

I have a new job. I am... A TEMP ( Read more... )

When I was in college, during my second year, my mother - who is an alumnus from that same college - was going to give a speech to the alumni foundation. It was in the early morning, but I promised to attend ( Read more... )