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So, I’m pretty ffxi wild. Or I was. Not sure if it was surgery, making my first 100k gil, or getting into warcraft iii: frozen throne. But now frozen throne is done, and ffxi’s siren song lures me less than once it did. I’m definitely not purchasing WoW until summer at the earliest. Enh. *shrug*

Hmmm, friday evening, in dc. Give me suggestions for things i could do. =)

Today I got up early and just barely missed the express bus. Then spent many productive hours at work coding up a webpage translator to go from regular html to the special html that our new service requires, so that it can convert it back to html. Lovely isn’t it? Lunch discussing office politics, at tasty new restaurant, an easy bike ride away.

Unable to concentrate post-lunch, so I play a few rounds of wc3, same map, always computer orc, me undead. On my third try today, I win. (I’ve lost track of prior attempts at this scario. Did I mentation that I really like the dark ranger?)

Afterwards off to get a couple bike pumps (one for home, one strapon for emergencies), and I pick up a bike map for minneapolis while I’m there. Share a bus back with which turns into a trip to dreamhaven. He suggests reading material, some of which I get for my upcoming trip. Yay, Brian.

I go home, try to pump up my bike tires, and rip off a valve due to general stupidity. So I go out, buy an innertube, tire tools, zip ties, and a new set of biking gloves. Then back to the house, and much time spent fucking with the bike. Eventually, I get the cranky thing happy, or at least as happy as ever it has been. I bike down the greenway, which is still closed off at the midtown exchange. Grrr.

Home, laundry, livejournal.

Plans for tomorrow. When I land I’ll probably hang out in dupont circle area for a bit. Grab some vegan chinese food. Look for a haircut & vegan dress shoes. Dinner with mom & elizabeth. Hopefully stay with . Done a bad job of the planning/arranging for this. =)

Friday morning interview. Tool around the gao neighborhood early friday afternoon. Mid-afternoon, meet with my gao contact. Evening, barhopping, maybe? Saturday board games at le chateau de and . Later evening activities hard to say. Return sunday.

Oh yeah, my finances? Fucked. *sigh* I’d like to think that I’d learn to manage my money, perhaps when I have money to manage things will be different. We shall see.

I may have to get me some john denver… =)

So, let’s see. I got in to town, and uncle dennis took me out shopping at wild oats, then to dinner at a fine japanese dining establishment. He lives in what amounts to a small, slightly architecturally troubled, work-in-progress mansion. With wireless, and great broadband.

My first gun show

I’m angry, both with myself for turning in a substandard product and, irrationally, with things external to myself, some quasi-legit, some totally ill-legit. 5.5/10 on my project abstract for transportation & land use. Truth be told, it deserved that, and was written and turned in at the last minute. (I was 20 minutes late to a 75 minute class, and it was still warm from the printing). I can plead a few things here, 1) ass surgery & pain meds. That’s quasi-legit. I was awake enough to play board & video games, cook meals, read intricate sci-fi plots, and generally fart around, hence the “quasi”. 2) unreasonable instructor expectations. He asked for a fucking map on my abstract. Yeah, it’s a very spatial course, and I’m doing a very spatial project. But this is an _abstract_. None of our example abstracts had a map. None had charts. None had tables. A small minority had bullet points. And he asked for a map. If I had the fucking map, the project would be mostly done by now. I doubt the lack of map detracted nearly as much as the vagueness of my data source references. If I’d bother to do assignments more than 24 hours in advance, maybe my life wouldn’t suck so much.

Those are the big ones. Grr. Hateselfhateteacher.

It’d probably be more productive to view this as constructive criticism. That is, after all, the goal of a checkpoint, to provide constructive criticism, and there is much to provide. Maybe tomorrow I’ll be loving life more. Let me finish my paper on Pittsburgh’s economy over the past 30+ years and we’ll talk.

Well, the warts are not of the “dramatically increasing your risk of cancer” variety, and after a painful, but not non-penetrative exam, I was pronounced to be healing well. I’m still gonna wait a bit longer on gymnastics.

So, as it turns out I can either a) fly myself out to DC or b) arrange a teleconference. Upon learning I’d be funding this trip myself I said I’d like to arrange the teleconference, but it turns out that a flight for next weekend would be a mere $280. Anyone near the Metro willing to suffer a lowly polwonk wannabe on their couch next weekend (march 17-20)? =)

edit: The interview will be friday morning (3/18).

Here’s my flight info:

Oddly accurate, or at least appealing to me.

I’m a d12 *geeksnortlaugh*