Not so much to talk about lately....
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blinkerI need to get over my obsessive news-reading habit. It's all propaganda anyway, but I persist in the deluded hope that some major news outlet will have a scoop about world peace breaking out. So far no such luck.
I've been trying an experiment called "leave work at 6" (except on Mondays). It's going really well. I get to cook more and I get more quality time with my lovely girlfriend and I'm getting as much work done as I did when I pushed myself to stay another hour or so. Maybe if I keep it up it'll help me resolve my aggression issues. I almost took someone's head off for checking in code without making sure it would compile *and* reverting a whole bunch of changes I'd made all in one fell swoop. I really wish I could write about the stuff I'm building, because I'm incredibly psyched about it, but not yet.
Speaking of my lovely girlfriend, we finally got around to celebrating her birthday on Sunday afternoon (a few weeks late because on her actual birthday we were both sick and friends were out of town). She's turning 30 next year and I really ought to start planning the party now so that I can make it sufficiently spectacular.
In other news, I've finally gotten a certain state university that rhymes with "ass" to admit to having received my application materials. Because even the possibility of being late for something turns me into a neurotic freakazoid, I sent everything in on schedule. Despite my best efforts, they sent me two letters saying they hadn't received it. I called after the first one and was told they probably just hadn't opened the envelope yet. I got the second one this past Friday and stressed about it until I called them this morning and got someone to open the file and tell me it was all there. I'm betting that they'll send me at least one more letter saying that my application's incomplete before they get around to processing it.
In other other news, I'm spending a lot of time in New York over the next few weeks. Kelly and I are taking a quick trip down to NYC the weekend before Passover for a social event with my family. I hardly know what to do in NYC anymore since Nadia moved away, but there are still a few people to ping about meeting for coffee or something. Then I'm heading back to Scarsdale that Thursday for the second seder by myself. Two family visits in a week is enough for about a month's worth of anxiety beforehand, but I keep telling myself that it'll be fun.
I've been trying an experiment called "leave work at 6" (except on Mondays). It's going really well. I get to cook more and I get more quality time with my lovely girlfriend and I'm getting as much work done as I did when I pushed myself to stay another hour or so. Maybe if I keep it up it'll help me resolve my aggression issues. I almost took someone's head off for checking in code without making sure it would compile *and* reverting a whole bunch of changes I'd made all in one fell swoop. I really wish I could write about the stuff I'm building, because I'm incredibly psyched about it, but not yet.
Speaking of my lovely girlfriend, we finally got around to celebrating her birthday on Sunday afternoon (a few weeks late because on her actual birthday we were both sick and friends were out of town). She's turning 30 next year and I really ought to start planning the party now so that I can make it sufficiently spectacular.
In other news, I've finally gotten a certain state university that rhymes with "ass" to admit to having received my application materials. Because even the possibility of being late for something turns me into a neurotic freakazoid, I sent everything in on schedule. Despite my best efforts, they sent me two letters saying they hadn't received it. I called after the first one and was told they probably just hadn't opened the envelope yet. I got the second one this past Friday and stressed about it until I called them this morning and got someone to open the file and tell me it was all there. I'm betting that they'll send me at least one more letter saying that my application's incomplete before they get around to processing it.
In other other news, I'm spending a lot of time in New York over the next few weeks. Kelly and I are taking a quick trip down to NYC the weekend before Passover for a social event with my family. I hardly know what to do in NYC anymore since Nadia moved away, but there are still a few people to ping about meeting for coffee or something. Then I'm heading back to Scarsdale that Thursday for the second seder by myself. Two family visits in a week is enough for about a month's worth of anxiety beforehand, but I keep telling myself that it'll be fun.
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Date: 2003-03-25 01:07 pm (UTC)Yeah! Hopefully, you will hear soon, so you don't have to do the wait by the mail thing for ever.