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Best $850 I have ever, ever made.

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:57:55 GMT

My job has ended! I gave a great presentation on phytohormones and wood growth and turned in my 20 page paper.

And most happily, I got my second-to-last check without "my" professor's approval, and my last check will be coming after the program director asks the professor about the idiocy (he'll be nice, I think).

Almost as happily, the program director and the coordinator both agree that I should reply to the professor's latest e-mail by politely asking her to fuck off. I just sent this e-mail; after all, I follow the instructions of people I respect. As for the others, I'm a stubborn ass, but in this case, a ultimately happy one.

Will future employers be able to read my xanga posts? I hope not.

Am I the last person to know the cephalapods (squid, octopuses [not octopi, because octopus is Greek instead of Latin]) are ridiculously intelligent for being squishy things?

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:25:35 GMT

My philosophy towards life is to disregard possible tenets for a philosophy towards life, possibly, or at least to be unsure about all of them.

Yesterday I found a frog on a lily pad (neither real) at a flea market.

I haven't been keeping up with my leisurely reading (ironic?), but I do think that Hegel is interesting and pleasant to read, and that Percy Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry" contains too many words with antient spellings.

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:23:23 GMT

A set of personal reminders:

Ignoring e-mails from a group member is not the best way to communicate occupation with other tasks

Ignoring communications in general is despicable

The little things that are easily noticeable contribute more to a person's overall impression than any sort of deep competence.

Also, I haven't use html coding in years, and it's nice that I remember how to make bullet points. Hopefully they show up on the page.

I have a funny thing for people and especially musical artists with the initials "JM." And after years, nearly a decade of listening to John Mayer, appreciating the tunes and eventually the lyrics, I finally, finally can say that I like his voice and that his songs would not be improved by replacing his voice with another. Quite a breakthrough.

Computer programming is something I can do, I decided. Someday, after I come back to college to study many other subjects in depth, I'll also try to understand computer science.

It's funny that I was sixteen four years ago; that's the length of a conventional college education. Lately I feel that I've lost some things, and it's a little threatening. I'll think about it later.

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:42:53 GMT

If you're ever assigned a 10-15 page group paper and feel bad for slacking off on the group presentation, DO NOT offer to write the entire paper for the sake of cohesive style and assume that your teammates will understand how to provide a "detailed outline" for a portion the paper, even if (maybe especially if) they are seniors in engineering.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:47:39 GMT

Hello, everyone. I'm taking a literary theory class this semester. The reading material will be good; it covers a very long time period of literary theory, from Plato onwards. The term "literary theory" has not connected to any of my understandings yet. However, I am reading things, which is nice.

I have trouble narrating anything with good language unless it's persuasive or purposefully ridiculous. I'll be working on that.

Recently, I've had a recurring concern that I'm putting off doing fulfilling things for a promise of doing fulfilling things in the future. I most often feel this way in accounting class (but no more accounting after this semester!), because financial accounting last semester was the first class I've taken here that I couldn't justify as somehow strengthening, or enriching, or at least entertaining me. It would be terrible if there are several more classes like this required for a business degree, because then I would definitely be compromising something for a... a career promise, I suppose.

Hmmm. Well, to counter that concern, I'm going to take between 20 and 30 minutes each day to draw one of my hands, or read the second part of Proust, or learn to play the harmonica, or write something somewhere.

Right, so...

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:35:25 GMT

Yeah, I'm totally not leaving xanga.

Just the fact that it helped me through a difficult week in realizing vulnerabilities and strengths and stuff, blah, blah, blah, etc. Conclusion: There's this guy, still; I'm crazy about him, but these situations are always frightening for someone without substantial coursework in courage. My last entry was pretty emo - it's been filed away. Sorry about that.

Also, I haven't written anything substantial this entire semester. Last year, I at least had a paper on free radicals. This year... I've had accounting. Dear everyone, accounting is boring. The basics are very, very boring, like this sentence, which is boring because I've neglected semi-literary Helin, the one who really liked Swann's Way, by the way.

An academic mention: Remember last year, when I discovered economics and decided it was incredible and universally worthy of pursuit? That's still true, though with less novelty, because STATISTICS is the new economics. Statistics is awesome. If everyone on this planet learned a bit about probability, this world would be a significantly better place (significant with a 95% confidence level, at least!).

Since yesterday, I work with worms (completely non-parasitic nematodes, specifically). They wiggle around and leave wavy trails all over agar plates.

How I Met Your Mother still consumes my free time on Tuesdays, The Office does the same for Fridays, though both shows are in decline. The Big Bang Theory - on the rise.

But literary me! She's dying! I want to re-read The Waves!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:52:54 GMT

Well, this is it. Xanga, it's been a nice four years, but I am off to other things for the upcoming time. Best wishes for your continued success, as it isn't completely unlikely that we will meet again.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:17:23 GMT

In the last few minutes, I've decided that I should think about leaving xanga completely. I like the ability to share sporadic life details with a select group of people (a.k.a. probably you), but in an effort to streamline communications, it may be most effective to consolidate routes of personal information into just three channels: a fairly personal journal (never noticed that those rhymed), the rather public facebook profile page, and the mid-level selective communications consisting of face-to-face meetings, phone calls, or internet messenger chats. Xanga has always been another mid-level, and mid-level things in life are overwhelmingly the most difficult to leave, because one feels as though one is abandoning some semblance of balance. Isn't it dreadfully annoying when one finds oneself burdened with the choice of using the pronoun "a person" (or another such vague description of a being) or repeatedly using "one," as the former sounds rather ridiculous and the latter cannot quite escape the pretentious connotations?

Interrogation and useful information relating to efficiency endeavors in communication and proper grammar will be considered.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:52:31 GMT

I have recently come into possession of a ridiculously awesome jacket from J. Crew. Its mixture of bravery, variety, flexibility, and cohesiveness in color and structure reminds me of the highest aspirations of human nature. (not really, but it does happen to be every positive adjective floating around out there.)

I also won a bet and subsequently lost a bet, resulting in my net gain of a button-down shirt (supposedly, even though the collar does not have the necessary feature for this proper designation.)

I miss the happy meal toys with battery power. I never seem to get those any more.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:08:15 GMT

Well, the grip for my tennis racquet doesn't spiral Fibonacci-cally, and the adhering process did not progress ideally. But I have a new grip, and it has a nice texture, and the color is a bit shocking, even though it is white, and I am ending this non-sentence now.

In other news, I adore puzzles.

I really have nothing interesting to write, so it is a good time to start reading.