I wonder if anyone still reads LiveJournal? I was randomly looking at some of my and badoingdoing's past posts and getting nostalgic. So many good memories.

"There's probably a German word for this--that happy feeling you get when someone tells you they're going to miss you."
"I think the word you're looking for is 'loved.'"

Fourth or fifth person in the last 20 minutes: Just checking, you know there's a social down on the second floor right now, right?
Me: Yep!
Nearby coworker: Up here on the fourth floor, we have the "Introverts' Social."
Me: Yeah, I prefer participating in that one.

Just had my third day of work at Amazon! Nothing much to report yet; I've mostly been meeting people and getting my laptop set up. As someone who's never worked at a truly massive company, I've been fascinated by the amount of infrastructure--there's a huge internal wiki, an employee directory complete with org charts, and scads of archived ( Read more... )

Been thinking about guilt and atonement and the different mindsets people have about them ( Read more... )

In random bullet points.

• Work. For the last year or so I've been working at a startup in San Francisco.  It was good for me in some ways--I could travel as much as I wanted, I could take time and learn whatever new skills I wanted (whether or not they were immediately applicable), and I took the lead on some big projects.  Unfortunately, that didn' ( Read more... )

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Until I got married, I didn't truly appreciate what it meant to share your life with someone. Sharing my life with someone as awesome as Naomi has its perks, but it also means that if things are going badly for one of us, things are going badly for both of us. So when I have to stay late at work, we both end up tired and hungry because neither of ( Read more... )

The ridge my wedding ring is slowly carving into my finger is strangely comforting.

Last time I talked to my dad, we were talking about the new season of White Collar and how I didn't have cable to watch it (but we get the episodes from Amazon, no biggie). This week I got a package in the mail from him: a DVD labeled "White Collar New Ep." How clueless yet thoughtful, I thought...until I stuck it in my computer ( Read more... )