This journal has become friends-only in practice, if not by intent.

I would be remiss if I said nothing about the historic election, but the reality hasn't really sunk in yet. After throwing my heart into two failed Democratic campaigns, my cynicism got in the way of any hope for this one, even at the end. I really didn't dare hope ( Read more... )

The longer I stay silent, the harder it is to say anything at all.

I'm still around. I still read livejournal (frequently) and comment (sometimes). I just haven't written in... ack, bloody forever ( Read more... )

I haven't written in a long time, but here are a few little things ( Read more... )

Things are going really well, which is probably why I haven't been writing much (I've been neglecting my paper journal a bit as well... which is really bad). I like my job-- I've accomplished a lot on the project I'm working on, and got a chance to print out some maps on the huge map plotter. I also solved a real-world problem using the ( Read more... )

Um, wow. New year ( Read more... )

The graduation ceremony was strange. The governor gave a little speech that was inappropriately political, and the president of the school gave a little speech that would have been better if it had contained fewer than two appeals for donations (they just finished spending 25 million building that bloody eyesore of a student center, yes, but ( Read more... )

Despite the coolness of the word "metadata", writing the stuff is absolutely mind-numbing. No wonder so many people don't bother (despite the fact that not having metadata makes their data almost useless to anyone else). I hope I don't have to do this as part of the internship. Not that the internship is going to be ground-breaking or especially ( Read more... )

I did get that job.

I give permission to all those who put up with my dire whining about how I'd never find employment in my field after college to fling this in my face next time I get obnoxious.

I graduate next Saturday, and I start work the week after that. I didn't think that sort of thing happened to real people anymore.