I’ve got my ticket home, 6pm tuesday Greyhound to New York. I’ll be home, get this and brace yourselves, 4 whole days. This is practically unheard of since that long summer I didn’t have a job and was bored to tears when I wasn’t traveling all over the place or whatever. It’ll be good to be home. My boss is the man and gave me Sunday off too, I have what I imagine to be one of the best cashier positions possible.
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got my ticket, and a full vacation
Sunday, November 18th, 2007someday
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007I’ll find a way to not make things so hard on myself all the time. I have two papers to write tonight and some another assignment I can’t do because I screwed up my archive of email [by way of a side project related to some music related archiving] and can’t find anything from Nov. 1st to about 5pm today. This is stupid and frustrating.
I bought an iPod today and spent more of my day messing around with my music than I should have and then proceeded to get myself so worked up about school that I couldn’t even enjoy it as much as I might otherwise like.
I cannot wait until Thanksgiving. I have to make sure to find out if my boss is serious about my showing up on Sunday the 25th so I can go back to Boston that day instead of Saturday, giving me something like 24-36 hours more time at home. Speaking of home, I haven’t worked out the logistics yet, but I’ll probably try to get a 6 or 7pm bus out of Boston on Tuesday the 20th since my classes end at 5 that day.
Time to eat something for dinner (I have to stop eating out so much and start cooking food here consistently.) and write my Tom Waits paper.
oppurtunity?
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007It sounds to me like this (via here) is a very unique opportunity that I should put something together for ASAP, just for the hell of it. Also sounds like it’s the sort of thing where you write something good once and it buoys an otherwise lacking application since they’re desperate for finding talent, not finding great resumes.
In the history of the company, we’ve had published fantasy authors, screenwriters and editors all wash out of BioWare’s training program. On the flip side, we’ve had fantastic kids right of college, an ex CNN producer and a former gift wrapping clerk from Singapore all succeed in the BioWare writer family. Previous job of lead writer for Baldur’s Gate 2, the highest rated PC RPG in history? Travelodge manager. So yes, we’re shaking the usual trees and our HR folks are turning over all the rocks they can think of but I had to go through over three hundred qualified candidates to find the team I have now so a lot of those trees have done already been shook. With that level of challenge around finding writers, I want to throw out an open invitation for anyone out there that thinks might be the strange combination of RPG fiend and talented writer to grab a copy of Neverwinter Nights and start putting together a writing sample.
statistical analysis
Saturday, October 27th, 2007and a highly informal survey reveal that something like 40% of the people at my job [in the bookstore] are vegetarian. This seems like a ’statistically signifigant’ number. Maybe if i hadn’t slept through statistics and gotten a D via guesswork perhaps I’d know for sure. I think I should have paid closer attention but math is sort of like another language already and a thick Japanese accent early in the morning didn’t help either. I imagine there’s some sort of relationship between not eating meat and working in a non-corporate bookstore, not sure what that is yet though. *shrug* probably not important at the end of the day since even if they can’t share my love of hamburgers, somehow, they still manage to be good people.
party party.
Friday, October 26th, 2007Tonight is Friday. Tonight I am going to a party. Tonight I am not going to do [very much] work on a History paper that’s due on Monday. I will be tired at work tomorrow. I will wear [for part of the night] a Darth Vader helmet some kid gave to gus when we moved out of Glenville this last summer.
tired.
Thursday, October 25th, 2007wrote something for all 3 of my classes yesterday. I’ve got a 6-8 page paper due at 3pm on Monday. I should grab some tea and work on it tonight since I’m going to a party tomorrow. OK. WORK TIME, INTERNET. Tom Waits is not get ready and excited to work music. It’s drink yourself to sleep music. (Tonight I think I’d be asleep after like 1/2 a beer, I’m so tired for no reason.) A Prof of mine ended up discussing work and the like and my bookstore job after class today and he solidified in my mind the soundness of my plan to get a job with BU (or another university) after graduation. He told me that they indeed roll over as quickly as I’d be told otherwise, but gave evidence of this happening in the English Dept, a prime location for such employment as far as I’m concerned. I got to relate the particular absurdities of my current employment which is rare and a pleasure and I got to relate my philosophy of weather: There is no such thing as bad weather, just how prepared one is for said weather. Be Prepared.
Another Sunday
Sunday, October 21st, 2007work was interesting, lots of new developments there, we’ve hired an asst. bookstore manager and we’re getting new computers. These things are strange, unexpected and positive for the first thing and awesome for the second. I came up with quite possibly the best Halloween costume in years as far as the bookstore crowd is concerned. If i can find the right stuff for it It’s going to be awesome.
I bought another new album tonight:
(from amazon MP3)
Mike may be right in saying that it is online music store done right, I bought this album (while logged into amazon) with two clicks of my mouse for 8.99 for a 10 track, 33 min album. It’s a good album too, imagine Kraftwerk’s Autobahn with elements of indie rock, very level kind of vocals, like Pavement on Prozac with a dash of country in there too. Anyway, it’s good.
Remind me to upgrade to WP 2.3 soon, if only so I can tag things and categorize them.