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| You know, I'm thinking of getting rid of the Xanga and doing something on my own webspace. You know, that URL I bought a long time ago so that I wouldn't have to worry about space, or ads, or anything like that. The company I'm with (Bluehost) has some nifty plug-ins, so adding in the blog module will be pretty easy. The photo gallery was easy, and easy to configure. I just chose a generic theme for it, but that's because I'm lazy. Lay-zee-uh.
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Oh, Happy New Year!
I'm late for everything. Even mid-January.
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Generic updates: So I got laid off. Well, not quite laid off, but practically. Instead of working 5 days and 40 hours a week, I work two days, for 10 hours a week. Granted that will cover my cell phone bill and gas, good thing I don't have any other bills to worry about or I would have been in trouble.
So now back to the job search drawing board. I hate searching for a job, especially since I can't decide some key things like where I want to be, and what I want to do. My basic search strategy so far has been to go to an area that I'm interested in working in (physical location, not company), and just see what they have available. I like Hotjobs because that lets you sort by experience required, something that is nice when I'm clearly not manager material. There's no specific "job title" I want, or "sector" that I want to work in. I'm pretty open, and I think that's screwing me over more than anything. Le sigh. Leh-sigh.
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Kareshi dekita. (>^_^)><(^_^<) | | |
| Never a dull moment at work. Except for today, where I'm 3/4s of the way through my bottle of water, and still 1.5 hours until I go home for lunch. Sure, there are things that I could be doing, like updating the webpage, however right now, I'd rather just type here, since I haven't typed in anything for like, forever.
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October 6th - 10th, 2005 -- Sailing trip!
I meant to write about this sooner, but I've been a-slackin'. Surprise, surprise.
On the 6th, I flew out to Atlanta, Georgia to visit a friend from that piratey game I play. My transfer was in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it was weird running around such a big and spiffy airport. Compared to San Diego's airport, those two put SD to shame. Well, at least NC did. Georgia has one of the crappiest airports ever. In Charlotte, my flight to Georgia wasn't even allowed to take off for an hour because Georgia didn't have room for them to land. We sat on the tarmack for over an hour. Not that I really minded, except that I just got off a 5-hour flight, and my butt was getting a bit numb. More than a bit, really.
Georgia was kind of scary at first. I get off the plane, and BJ tells me to get on the train. Yeesh. The meeting was awesome though. I wore the t-shirt that Charles got me that says "Yarr, I be pirate (now gimme yer booty)". BJ and Buffy had the Notorious Fandango sign printed out in legal paper. He saw my pirate t-shirt, and I saw his NF sign, and we knew we had found each other. Okay, maybe you don't find it hilarious, but I was amused at the time.
Directly from the airport we went to the Georgia Tech vs. NC State football game. It was pretty exciting. We sat right behind the GT team. Very close game. Very exciting. Interesting to see BJ get soo excited about something, because I pictured him to be a very mellow person. Then again, people aren't always how they are in game, which is actually a good thing in most cases.
The next morning we went grocery shopping, picked up Greg from the airport, and drove down to the good old state of Florida. I got to see cotton bushes! Miles and miles of cotton bushes. I didn't think that is what they really looked like. I expected bigger, taller things, I guess. Most of that was probably from a suburban expectation that all crops are huge, monstrous plants created by science.
BJ also pointed out the kudzu. Lots and lots of kudzu. Kudzu!
Got to the pier, loaded up the boat, and headed out into the bay. Meanwhile, I was generously providing my feet and ankles out to be the bait of the trip. BJ and Greg only picked up a few bites, and I had nearly 40, with about 30 of them around my ankles and feet. Fiesty, hungry little buggers.
The next couple days were awesome. We spent them out in the water, even venturing out into the bay. Once out there, we got to see loads of dolphins coming out to mess with the humans. A few came and swam by the boat, and it was just nifty to see them. We even swam out in the ocean a bit, and swam out in the bay. Very nice water. The weather wasn't too hot, and no hurricanes in sight.
I flew back Monday, and it was another wonderful 8 hours of traveling. By the time I got home, I just curled up in a ball and fell asleep. The trip was totally worth it. I got to meet people I would normally not have a chance to meet, and take a trip that I would normally not go out and take. Wheee! | | |
| Now for random updates.
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My office is so freakin' cold. I feel like I need an electric blanket. Why don't the Office Gods love us?
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I sometimes wonder why traditionalism still runs rampant in my household. So if my brother is doing the dishes in the evening, if I'm still eating, my mom will tell me to hurry up and help him, both by emptying the dishrack and rinsing the dishes. However, last night, I started doing the dishes, but he wasn't prodded to help me, and in fact, I ended up doing the whole batch by myself. No one helps me in the morning. I empty the dishrack and wash everything, even though people get up earlier and can empty the dishrack and do their own dishes. Why am I expected to do it? Because I'm the girl?
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The job hunt begins anew. Blargh.
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It was fun having the guys come and visit. I miss talking with them. I lived with them for so long, and now I hardly ever get to see them. (But I do get to talk with the guys once a week for our geeky gaming sessions, which is nifty.) See pictures:
www.eCruelty.com/gallery/ | | |
| Heh...I meant to post this a few weeks ago, but lazy++:
You know what I find particularly interesting about life? I've been
mulling over this for the past several days, amazed at a simple little
idea. I just find it amazing how simple little events can change the
course of your entire life. At first I was thinking that it was just
one single event, but the more I thought about it, it was a long
series of tiny little happenstances. A choice at each turning point
has brought me to where I am today.
I'm one of those that constantly wonder about the 'what ifs' in life.
What if I never applied to Stanford? What if I never went? What if I
asked to be in a different dorm? Then I would never have met the
friends that I have today. (They're also driving down this weekend to
come visit, so I'm totally excited. Yay!)
Having no religious belief, I can see that it is the choices that I
personally make, not some divine intervention, that has brought me to
where I am today. I was looking back, and if I had not done something
there, or did something else here, I wouldn't be where I am, or who I
am. And that would a bad thing(TM).
Instead of thinking about the past, now I'm thinking about my future.
That is still another set of 'what ifs', for the next step is
contingent on the step before. If this happens, then this can happen,
which will lead to this, and so on and so forth. It starts out as a
little thing -- well, maybe not so little, yet it will build up to
something new and exciting, a change that I've needed for a long time.
Of course I'm nervous. New territory and whatnot. And what if what I
want to happen doesn't happen tomorrow? Then it will happen one day,
in the future. I'm confident of that. Then the ball gets rolling, and
I follow the path I have set out for myself. I've waiting this long,
and it is about time I started down a new path. | | |
| Blargh.
Yes, I said it, and I'll say it again.
Blargh.
That's how I feel right now. That and helpless. And I'm upset with myself because I feel so helpless.
What am I going to do about it? Wallow for about half an hour, and then
go and try to not feel so helpless for a bit. Maybe distract myself.
Hopefully.
Blargh.
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