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Holy shit, I have no life. I’m completely caught up on livejournal, and mostly caught up on my email. After a week of sleep dep. I so crazy.

Made it back, none the worse for the wear. 42 billable hours in 4 days. We recorded the data we need (I hope). There was much snow. It was not wild, it was not fun, but much good will come of it. Now to catch up on email and livejournal… =)

Depends entirely on where I get into grad school. But my expectation is something of the following form:

either a) get into grad school. move out from here at the end of the lease/end of the contract. Go to a different part of the country, and settle into the area.

or b) find an appealing geek-organizer job (as per moveon’s job fair), and do that for a few years as a way to get politically involved while still using my geek foo.

Either way, I don’t know what the chances are that I will be in the bay area in August. I wish I knew where I am going.

Flying out to Albuquerque for work tomorrow. Come back friday evening.

Fun, fun, fun.

So, I’m going to be playing some sort of rpg over carnival with friends. It’s looking like Arcana Unearthed may be a possibility, about which I’d be pretty jazzed. It has some neat ideas. And I keep tossing around character concepts. So I’ll get the big one out of my head, so I can let it go.

The mojh mother

Do as I say, not as I do.

Get started early. Even if you feel, as I did, that there is some task you must accomplish before you can be sure of grad school as your path, start early. Get your transcripts in october or november at the absolute latest. Start asking for letters of recommendation before november. Get everything prepared, send it, and check with the school to make sure they got it (that I am doing). Make sure that there is enough time such that if they did not get it all, you have time to get it to them before the deadline. In general, be pro- not re- active. And it doesn’t hurt to prepare everything you can as early as you can.

This is close to beating myself up, but not quite there. I may well apply to grad school in the future, and I hope I remember these suggestions. And the mindset in general.

friday evening: nausicaa #2

I have the urge to hang out and watch anime. Or cook dinner for someone. Or something similarly social, without intervening computer screens. I ought to find and befriend others who believe in dynamic scheduling of a friday night.

Save for 1 letter of recommendation for one application, which I will acquire this weekend, my applications are all assembled and will be in the mail within the next hour. Here’s hoping.

Well, the good news is that the recommendations finally got mailed out (today, after the 20thish email asking what was up with them), and should be here tomorrow. Yay FedEx.

The bad news is, I’m still in a funk. My digestive system hates me. My wrist’s tendons (or maybe it’s ligaments) have told me that no way is gymnastics continuing at this point. But, really, I think what I’m depressed about is Dean stopping the active campaigning. Well, that and other things. It’s like so much is resolving itself around me. I’m going to keep working on this project for the next couple months. I’m going to go to grad school, probably somewhere in the midwest, next fall. I’m going to start gymnastics again in a month to a month and a half. I’m going to vote for Kerry in November.

None of this is bad, it’s just all so… pre-determined. And wait-y. Also not looking forward to albuquerque next week. But, hey, lots of hours, and at +$10/hour, so can’t complain about that too much. =) Plus, if I do end up in hyde park, I could live off my freaking security deposit from here for a month or two. Literally. Doesn’t that put bay area housing prices in perspective.

I need to hang with people. It’d be nice if they were people I could reasonably expect to see on an ongoing basis for the next few years. If only I knew where I’ll be.