This morning as I struggled awake, I checked my e-mail on my phone and saw that one of the jobs I applied to said I made it to the next step in the selection process.

I bounced out of bed, suddenly excited to finish up my supplementary information to send out to a different job, for which I'd also been selected for the second step.

Halfway through ( Read more... )

This sums up my thoughts on the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, except that I do appreciate the soundtrack ( Read more... )

I had a little freakout in the car today, fueled by too much caffeine and hormones. Plus some frustration at the grocery store, and car problems I can't afford to fix, and the lawsuit that I have no idea what to do with, and general money problems, and not getting enough work done on the contract when I seriously need to be billing for 40 hours a ( Read more... )

Thank god the neighbors have finally either passed out or gone to a strip club or something ( Read more... )

Dear neighbors ( Read more... )

So I just watched "UP" and overall, I didn't like it ( Read more... )

Next time I think about applying for Federal jobs I'll just slam my head in a door for an hour instead. It's about the same effect ( Read more... )

I defended my thesis last Friday. As I should have expected, they totally called my bullshitting at the end. "It looks like you ran out of time or steam towards the final part here..." Yeah. Yep yep I did. She even noticed that I didn't have the 'confidence in my sources' that I did with the rest of it. As in, I had almost none, and hadn't really ( Read more... )

Today is day 1 of my contract and I've started it off by talking on the phone with my supervisor (relevant), helping Ayako look for a new laptop (irrelevant), having 2 cups of coffee (relevant), and blogging (woah irrelevant ( Read more... )

Right so, huge nerd and all that. Known ( Read more... )