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Goin
Shit's goin good. My biggest concern right now is finding the right Halloween costume. It should be comfortable (warm), clever or macabre, and be able to be described with a preceding "sexy". I may also be out of a job soon ( Read more... ) -
Mitigated Success: The Story of My Life
I didn't get the job, but they gave me a consolation full-time internship that will last a few months ( Read more... ) -
Slow Progress
On Fridays, some of the more ambitious or opinionated of us at the PRI go to Maxie's Supper Club to discuss a paper. We call it "geeks". I started out feeling somewhat intimidated, but lately have been much faster to question and critique. In fact, the last few times I've gone, I felt downright smart. The group often comes to a consensus with ( Read more... ) -
Patience
I've yet to retrieve any of my photos from Europe from Dad, but I'll link them and tell the story when I get them. I do, however, have some photos I took today to woo people into my house: That House
Once I got back, an interesting situation slowly came to light:
I had originally applied to a part time internship kind of position at the PRI. ( Read more... ) -
Twit
I'm gonna cross reference these for your time-wasting convenience: http://just-like-alex.livejournal.com/ meet http://twitter.com/alexfwall
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Before Europe
The only thing I remember before my trip that is worth mentioning was a particular Wednesday during which Steve and I lifted 15 metal cases, filled with around 200 metal drawers out of a warehouse, into a moving truck and then into upper collections by hand. In the process, we also had to move several tables, desks, compactor pieces, shelves, and ( Read more... ) -
Future-Self
The PRI's floor is happy now and I may have done my last heavy lifting ( Read more... ) -
Peace
Ithaca Fact: Ithaca holds the unofficial record for the largest human peace sign. 6000 people made it in Stewart Park. It is also the unofficial record for the greatest accomplishment of the hippie movement ( Read more... ) -
Ithaca is Gorges
Ithaca Fact: Like in Iowa, many of the names of locations have pronunciations other than their spellings would suggest. Cascadilla is said with a dark L (like when you say quesadilla incorrectly), Taughannock is said təh•gæ'•nək, and Cayuga is said queue•guh (or like someone with an Australian accent saying 'cougar', says Joel ( Read more... )