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According to SBC I will rejoin the modern world and have internet access on Monday. I won't hold my breath though.

I purchased vice city to keep me occupied in between. It has been a bit consuming. Damn boat missions. DAMN THEM ALL!

I think my math books feel a bit neglected.

I'm officially poor as fuck. I knew it was coming. The moving splurge...
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I have been one unproductive mofo. I guess with the moving and everything I have felt justified in taking a break. But since I was too busy doing other stuff before the move I haven't done any real work in a long time.

The humidity does not help. (I will probably bitch about this all summer. I'm sorry I'm a west coast guy at heart...
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I'm officially moved out
98% of my stuff is lying haphazardly around my new place. It's big and kind of empty feeling. My roommate is gone until mid july touring the mideast. The quiet is kind of nice.
My upstairs neighbor has a small child. I don't know how well that will work.
I love the neighborhood. It's just a great location. Right now I'm...
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I have a new hole.
I have some new apartment keys
I have to figure out how to move my shit from point A to point B. I'm almost there. I've got some awesome friends.
I have now seen pinback. Good times.
I have three cats which are playing hockey with something in the other room. I'm pretty sure Taboo (the one in the profile...
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I guess I dropped off of the face of SG for a bit...

All week I was busy getting shit together for the beer-skits. Daily rehearsals and lots of tech stuff.
In the end I don't think the rehearsals helped much. Most of the lines ended up being improv'd quite a bit. Lines were forgotten, skipped, added and completely changed. Maybe we shouldn't have been...
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hmm...highlights for the week:
Wed. Gave my talk on how to beat computer chess. It went pretty well. Biggest attendance yet for a lecture I've given somewhere around 60 maybe. Later I went to Piece and Ten56. Ten56 serves some seriously mean long islands. Served in a pint, nearly clear and just a little ice.

Fri. Went to kit-kat and smart bar with the lovely...
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I learned something today. If you plan to give a lecture using an overhead projector apparently you need to prepare about 4 times as much material as you would if you were using a blackboard.
I prepared 2 times as much and a half hour into my talk I ran out of slides. Fuck. I curse overhead projectors everywhere. Anyway...I also discovered that I can...
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Finished my first day of my topic exam. It went fine. I did a great job of evading almost every question. Tuesday is my last one. Then I've got years of available procrastination time.

Went to an interesting talk called "Genius, Ellitism and Outreach." It was more of a discussion about sexism in mathematics than it was about the three words in the title. But...
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I passed my french exam. It took 5 minutes. He picked the hardest paragraph to read in the whole book. I stumbled through and he said it was good enough.

I guess I'm a "master of science" now. Unfortunately the title doesn't come with any cool super powers (I checked).

Day one of my topic exam is Thursday. I guess I should get on that....
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nerdboy2345 and hepburn's party Thursday night was a good time, even though I had to cut out early because of this damn illness and I realized I had to be up really early (for me) today. I guess I just missed the sharpie madness which is probably for the better.

It was quality company that night.

I've decided LadyK will be taking my french...
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