I have a sublet, starting in July, though the lady from whom I would be subletting lost my sublet application form and made me fill it out. *checks calendar* As I was filling out the form for the second time, I noticed a picture on the kitchen counter, in which she was funneling. Her graduation was shortly after I filled out the first one. *shrug* The design guy who would be in the bedroom right next to mine is allll about my little wireless router. I haven’t had the heart to tell him yet that the wireless portion of it is craptacular.
I think I have my job stuff pretty much all in a row. Got my direct deposit today. My health insurance has been confirmed, and soon I will have my card, so I can go get my eyes examined and my teeth looked over for the first time in 3 years. I anticipate contacts and a filling. Yay nonmyopic shower/pool cruising 😉 Booo, nasty tasting oral pain.
I’ve also spent my non-work day time hours looking at housing and talking to realtors. Dad thinks he wants to invest in real estate, walking distance from the U, which I would then live in and manage (selecting tenants and what not). But, he wants to wait until he gets back from Iraq. I am not so keen on this plan. If he’s investing, it would make sense to do it now. Even without me contributing rent, rent pays for the mortgage on most of the properties near the U, assuming suitable tenants can be found. I’m willing to commit to staying in the same house for 3 years starting in August. I am not willing to move in the middle of winter, and I have no idea if I’d be willing to stay in minneapolis for 4 years, but I kinda doubt it. Not a bad town, mind you, but I’m not car crazy, and this is one car-loving town (relative to chicago, berkeley, squirrel hill, or say Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Toronto. =) I might even be in school here an extra year. After graduation, I’d rank chances as good that I’ll want to pursue even higher educational plans. So, 4 years, probably not. 3 years, *shrug* sure. Furthermore, they’d be spending the money to help support me through grad school anyway, if they do this, they probably wouldn’t have to pay anything to put me through.
Swim team is going alright. The workouts are less lengthy, both in terms of distance and in terms of time than I might like. For instance, today’s was warmup + 4x(2×100 kick on 2:00, 8×50 alternating pull and stroke on the 1:00). A total of a little more than 3000 yards in a little under an hour. Also, getting in requires a Y membership or guest passes. Guest passes are $5/day for students. Full membership would be cheaper, if I go regularly, but I’d prefer not to contemplate that expense at the moment, along with many others, have to do a full workup budget soon. Bleh. A gentleman from the tsunamis that I went on an abortive date with before moving to sf is also in grad school out here, and may be interested in joining.
Signed up to do a co-op training at the north country next week and will likely soon be getting 15% off there. The day after the co-op training, I sit in on a MnDOT meeting regarding the value pricing experiment I’m working on and take the minutes. Also due that day is the quarterly research report which I(!?) am supposed to write. Hello, I’ve been here less than a month.
I’ve been assigned to do some research on combining brt (bus rapid transit, ie, dedicated bus lanes, often with infrequent stops, and pre-pay stations) with value pricing (selling unused limited access lanes to drivers who would otherwise not be allowed to use them, at a price such that the buyers do not impede the use of the lane by the protected group. They’re thinking of setting up a conference in september. Lee, the prof I’m working for, is also considering taking me along to Utah for a transportation research conference.
Oh, and I met a cool guy on the bus on the way to saturday morning swim practice. Had lunch at a hippy restaurant with him. May be doing pride related things with him on friday. *dance of carefully controlled glee*.
Back to reading & report preparations.
Considering the extreme wanderlust that befalls you every two years, I agree that it is probably not a good decision to tie yourself (or your father’s investments) to a place where you are going to be itching to escape…
get those lenses! you may have missed the pool eye-candy this morning.
yes, our morning workouts are pretty short. i think Herb and Steve and i would like to stick to around an hour, but if you want to shake up the distances, feel free to bring something! we’ve gotten in the habit of doing the same thing over and over again.
Well, unless you’re talking on-team eye candy, I did miss it. =) My primary reason for joining isn’t eye candy, but even so, I’m pretty pleased on that front. =)
I hope that didn’t come across too critically. I’m certainly not interested in getting up any earlier, and respect that we’re not all college students (or more precisely, that I seem to be the only one =). Never having really organized a practice before, I think I’ll probably experiment with something on my own before subjecting anyone else to it, but I may yet take you up on that proposal.
I’ll probably also check out the masters team that meets on campus though, for reduced transport/membership annoyance, though it seems like a unique nightmare of bureaucracy and fees.
Hrm. A person actually talked to you on the bus? That’s the first…usually all I got where stares of fear.
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Well, he said hi after we got off the bus. It was part of my eye contact and friendly smile exchange program. I may be a little too aggressive about this at times, but other times it pans out. Even when I’m a bit of an asshat and cross the street away from the gentleman in question. (and immediately repent, return, and start a conversation).