keeping sane, one word at a time
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Male; Age 25; Likes Ultimate Frisbee;
Here's a favorite quote of mine from Tropic of Cancer p.99, "I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which i have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which the lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself."
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Tuesday, September 30, 2003
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
exaggeration is a key component of a good story
6:18 AM
Friday, September 26, 2003
misanthropy: hatred or distrust of humankind
2:44 PM
I'm applying for an Alcan internship. You know, the guys who make aluminum foil.... Apparently they're in the market for a tribologist for an 8 month term. Just gotta cross the fingers I guess.... I'd really really like to get this job. It's a good company and it would be industrial research, which means: real problems, real budgets, real testing equipment ---- REAL CASH. Enough with student life. I'm through.
I need to go for a run.
2:26 PM
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
I live across the street from a senior's complex. In their front playground they have a 25-foot pole with canadian flag. Sometime during the night, through highwinds, the flag was shredded and entangled around the pole. Which is why I awoke to the sound of what seemed to be someone rhythmically slapping a stick on the ground. On closer inspection, it was Joe Senior, who decided to take on the task of freeing the shredded flag this morning around 7:45 am. The rhythmic slapping is Joe shaking the pole back and forth in a feeble attempt to loosen the flag's grip.
He reminds me of a chipmunk. He stands with head cocked to the side, under an unwilling "tree", in an effort to solve the puzzle of freeing the last nut. He's scurries anxiously around the tree, looking for that new angle that will solve his problem, but with no luck.
It's now 9 am and Joe's smoking a cigarette and pacing back and forth in front of the flag-entangled pole. He's tried unsuccessfully to shake the flag free in 10 minute intervals since 7:45 am, he's tried an 8-foot aluminum ladder and he's now called upon the help of a fellow senior, Sidekick of Joe.
It's now 9:15 am, Joe and Sidekick of Joe have attained a honking 15-foot aluminum ladder and are successfully cutting away the flag remnants. A job welldone. The chipmunk always wins.
5:55 AM
Friday, September 19, 2003
song of the day: rhett milller - come around
6:05 AM
Thursday, September 18, 2003
the deadline for the final copy of my thesis is due oct. 4. the deadline for the application to convocate on nov. 15 is due tomorrow. i won't be ready in time and am not too concerned about it. i guess i didn't really start writing until July, so that's only 3 months of writing so far and since i'm a slow-ass bitch...
kitty says ALCAN is looking to hire interns and they apparently research in tribology. i think i'll apply. in the meantime i'll have to talk to my advisor about my failure. it's not a big deal, he's hinted at the fact that he doesn't think i'll have enough time already. he'll use extending my pay period as leverage to convince me of the absolute bliss one gets from completing a PhD, or maybe he'll say get lost.
after rather dismal feedback on my technical writing, i've turned to a number of self-help books on the subject and am enjoying renewed interest in my thesis writing. i can now write with confidence!
8:55 PM
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
In an attempt to finish my written thesis by Oct. 4, I've sworn off trying out for the Queen's ultimate frisbee team. Maybe i'll come out for practice a couple times, or pickup for regionals or maybe not. Maybe it's time to move on, or maybe i'm being retarded. Ah well, I've still got hope that my thesis will be completed in time. Plus, there's always Goosebowl at the end of October!
9:50 PM
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Went to Scott Schillinglaw's cabin this past weekend - sweet setup. "Cliff" Jumping, horseshoes, Fennis, Frolf, beer, steak, Minigolf and Euker were all on the menu. Plus Scott's getting married to Christine. Pretty crazy.
Man! gotta reinstall Win2K. I upgraded to SP4 only to realize that it's rendered ANSYS 6.1 (program key to finishing my thesis) useless. When window's asks if you'd like to backup files when upgrading to SP4 be sure to do it...
Started the library job this week, pretty sweet. Wish I could have had this job at the current wage earlier.
1:16 PM
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