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enough about me, why don’t you talk about me for awhile: work-related

copied from , who doubtless copied it from someone else
enough about me, why don’t you talk about me for awhile

http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~scu/forsale/furniture.html

I was reluctant to post this earlier, both out of a superstitious fear of jinxing it, and out of a more rational desire not to get emotionally invested in something I wasn’t sure was going to happen. Well, turns out I got the job, so go me. It’s a half time research assistantship with the head of the state and local policy program (his only summer research assistant). The project is on value pricing, which is basically renting time in underused hov lanes to solo drivers. I will be webmonkey and listserv manager as my exclusive domain. And other duties as prescribed. Will likely involve both writing and economic analysis, though to a limited degree.

It’ll go quarter time in the fall, knocking half off expenses. This is good, but we’ll see how it all works out.

Enemy of the Church: Atheist

Here is a list of the books and a few old pc games I will not be moving. If any of these interest you, speak up and grab them, otherwise, i’m going to try to sell them to used book stores, or donate them to some charitable cause type store. (Most likely out of the closet).

Furniture, and other misc items that may be of interest will be posted a little later today.

I may get around to formatting this in some non-ass fashion later, but as the moving and packing shit is starting to hit the fan, we will see how that one goes.

[I had no idea this would excite the response it has. Basic decision is as follows: People who come to pick the stuff they want up in person get priority over others. If nobody comes to pick it up, I will ship stuff to you if you’ll pay me back. And I’ll format it & put it on a webpage & stuff, tomorrow or sunday or something.]

the list

Picked up my copy of San Juan (recieved in exchange for a massive collection of rpg sourcebooks I no longer wanted, composed 40-50% of books I had recently received from , thanks, Nathan). Played 2 games of San Juan, a game of tigris & euphrates, a few hands of gang of four, 2 more games of San Juan, and another couple hands of gang of four. The evening got progressively more fun. I was also amused to hear Cole say “I have never heard so many references to sex in the course of a single game.” Mostly in reference to simon’s continuous, casual cursing, which I emulate and which we usually dispense at a rate roughly proportional to the speed of play.

The last game of San Juan was blazingly fast. In it, I won with a ridiculous “strategy”. I started off with a smithy (small reduction in cost for production buildings, good to build early) and a guild hall (extra points for production buildings, important to have built by the end of the game). I kept the guild hall in hand throughout most of the game. I had 8 production buildings, most of which were useless decorations, one smithy, one quarry and the guild hall at the end. Half my points came from the guild hall. And I won by 1 point.

I still suck at the game, because I don’t build up a good income stream at the start. Sort of a metaphor for my life I suppose. =) Anyway, sleep now.

Afterwards, an abbreviated conversation with . It’s unfortunate that I try to treat gaming as an opportunity to talk with him [you], because it’s really not a great place for conversation. Though I think gaming with him [you] is generally where I have the most fun in our interaction, when we actually play a game together. Biking together enhances the experience and is a great thing, but is largely a fun thing to do regardless of company. Hmmm, anyway…

I also applied for the summer research assistantship. And baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Overall, a good day.

Things got easier. It turns out if I mail stuff to

Stephen Ulrich
care of general delivery
main post office
minneapolis, mn 55401

I can just pick it up. No need to purchase a po box that I likely wouldn’t use much anyway.

Last night at gymnastics, I started doing front tucks. Well, sorta. Front tucks usually involve no more than a foot of forward travel. Not a yard and a half. I was managing to completely clear the giant cube of softness I was supposed to land in, and landing on my feet. This is bad. I now understand why the better gymnasts do the run-then-jump-straight-up thing. It looked kinda silly, but it’s hard to stop the forward momentum and convert it to altitude, though I was apparently doing fine on altitude.

Ass still sore from trampoline accident. But not so sore that I didn’t have fun last night.

Also starting to feel a little more connected with my fellow gymnast. Hopefully things will work out as well in mn.

“I want everyone who reads this to post in here something they would like to do with me someday.”

Then post this in your journal as well 🙂

Thanks to , and , among others, I’m sure.

Get at least a good start on my resume for the research assistantship foo. Eventually consult with the career services folks at the humphrey school. Send a “thank you” email to the prof I talked to at humphrey. Scrounge up a scale to weigh the stuff I have to send (probably have to buy one). Get more boxes to handle stuff. Start taking pictures and posting ads of the furniture I want to sell. Possibly fix broken slats on bed. Compose a list of books that I have to sell. Start seperating clothing for charity from clothing to ship. Pull hard drive out of old machine, put it in new machine and see if it still works; start pile for electronics to send to alameda county computer resource center.

Oh yeah, set up the going away evite before I’m already gone. =)

And gymnastics.

Ro is moving out in just a few more days. Rather sad about that. End of one pattern of life and the beginning of a new one. Doing these things right is neither easy nor automatic.