My job is extremely boring right now. I have to make DVD copies of all of the interviews we've done for the past year and a half (almost a hundred, each an hour long). Which means I sit at my desk, find the right file, press GO and then wait. Label CD, address envelope, stamp. The programming for the project that I was hired for ended in February, ( Read more... )

I have spent the last week trying to learn Romanian. I think I'm going to be fine--most of it sounds like Italian, even if they have really strange spellings for things (and a bunch of different letters ( Read more... )

So I'm seriously peeved at my roommate Mark right now. We've been talking about going down to DC to see our friend Gil for a couple weeks now. I've been trying to get him to tell me a good time for him so we can book the bus tickets early and he's stalling. Not because he doesn't want to go, but because we're communicating via text message while I' ( Read more... )

Two bits of news (sort of). I am going to Texas in a few weeks, which may be the last time that I see my grandmother. She's 88, and I'm not sure what's going to happen in the next two years when I'm in a faraway land. This makes me really sad, and probably the first time that I've ever volunteered to go to Texas without some form of bribe from my ( Read more... )

I have plans! With people that aren't my roommates! I'm so pumped. I'm housesitting for my boss in Williamsburg this weekend, so my friend Emily is meeting me and we're going to have sushi and then go to a Funk/Hip hop dance concert. Best of all, its low price. And, the hall is two blocks from my boss' s apartment, so the drunk travel time is so ( Read more... )

I went on a bender this weekend and surprisingly didn't come out of it as poor as I thought. My fraternity's 80th anniversary was last Thursday, so my roommates and I went to Wagner Thursday night after work. We brought heavy beer (Brooklyn Lager--the best ever) so it hit me a little harder than usual, also because I haven't been drinking much at ( Read more... )

It almost seems pointless to post, as I've done nothing with my life recently. There's interviews and waiting and some big events next week, and the endless stream of nerdiness that comes out of my apartment. One of my roommates only thinks about this one game called Warhammer. I mean seriously, that's all he thinks about, besides getting laid. In ( Read more... )

I've been in a weird mood the past couple of days. I feel like I'm running in place and I just want to get somewhere already. I want to go to grad school or join the Peace Corps or get a stable job but none of these things are for sure. I miss the deadlines of college. They were absolute (in certain ways) and there were rules and direct ( Read more... )

So my latest rant on the Peace Corps includes one tiny error that I just realized today when re-reading an email from my latest PC liaison. I thought it said someone would contact me for a final interview, but that was me rushing and mis-reading. It said that someone will contact me after a final review. Which means its not going to take as long as ( Read more... )

My apartment is a perpetual nerd fest. It's Saturday night, and what are my friends doing? Coming over to my place of residence to play video games. The upside to all of this is that we're broke as shit, and this is an entertaining way of saving money. But I still can't help but wistfully stare towards Manhattan as all of the Brooklyn slutties ( Read more... )