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I got a job at the patent office. I can't wait to start. I've been so frustrated with the whole phd/class/etc. thing lately that I was ready to quit entirely and do construction work or something. At least this way I'll do something interesting + not quit on the doctoral program entirely.

I think this is a much better path for my career to take...
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I applied for a position with an engineering firm that builds wind farms. I've got my fingers crossed on that job, I can't think of a more ideal job for me than that.


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I've started keeping a serious journal for the first time since I was in Jr. High School. I used to be deathly afraid of anyone being able to read my inner thoughts/look at my sketches, etc. in large part due to my belongings being gathered up and taken to a shrink a couple of times while I was growing up. By the time high school...
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I'm thinking about switching to a vegan diet sometime later this spring.

It almost seems natural that I should be phasing dairy and eggs out of my diet at this point.
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I've worked out being sort of homeless for the time I have remaining in school.

Not homeless in living on the streets of the city sort of thing, but homeless in the sense that almost everything I own will be in storage or the trunk of my car, and sleeping in a combination of my office, the lab, a tent, my parents' house, and my...
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I like doing research, but I hate writing about it later.

Even more than the writing, I hate trying to play editor and type setter.
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I'm currently in philly.

Went to dracula's ball. Left after final band played, started running throught the streets of philly drunk.

Heard an obvious shooting. Ran to it in time to see policed putting up tape. Then ran to some club near 8th and arch (near my sister's hotel room) until someone tracked me down.

It was an awesome night, coming again in May.
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I was driving on the DC capitol beltway today and saw I truck which amounts to nothing more than a mobile billboard. These guys: http://www.drivebyads.com/

I thought my head was going to explode. Of all the absurd, wasteful, pointless things you see on the highway, this has to take the cake. A driving billboard. It decreases visibility for nearby vehicles, burns fuel to do nothing...
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