Poof! single again. Not in a terrible way, but not really in a happy way either. naturally, happens when im a bit less crazybusy thanks to a more reasonable courseload and a concomitant lightening of work-induced crazyness. I havent really had free, empty time for...a year? I dont know what to do with it. Today's the first day of this business, but its actually rather full since insomnia led to gymmissing this morning, which yields nightyming now! but once the week gets rolling it will be odd. Plan on renewing commitment to frantic goingoutness and partythrowing,and lots of reading that needs to be done. Hausdorff Spaces, categorical imperatives, singleton patterns, cognition things, all that bidness!... and theres class I suppose, with Zoran Djordjevic, fills some time. Maybe ill finish the design patterns project. twas fun to do! I definitely like cable, and now more fully understand why jess and philip loved having full cable powers oh so much, it is purdy super neat,but now its gym time.
Life is crazy, but after wed there is at least no schoolio for a while!
The party was fun. I was stripped by girls and then further stripped and felt up by some gay boys. and there was hipstermocking dancing with fun folks. Now i must postgymshowerpower and do more work on my database thingie.
life revolves around the ms.cs courses, the gym, german, and of course verk
I like verk, and I like my fellow verkers
I am quite amazed at the seemingly infinite latitude I have been given and at the scope of the projects I seem to be permitted to just plain...do..by myself! oh wowsers.
Got a job, been to some stochastics seminars, lots of excermacise, some hopeful strands in girlland but nothing "solid", trying to read more, cook more. must do fondue with ms mikita and co. soon. oooh and nyc soon! eee. oh and classes classes classes. oh me oh my. id kind of like a pie. nah. oooh but i do want a steak. I havent had one in almost two years. and no meat for a few months now. I think it is meattreat time, or will be soon! oh meep. mmmm so full of that soy chai drink of deliciousness mmmm <3
so I thought I was showing up for a 1 hour behavioral interview...nope! 5 hours of quant/behaviorals. yay. and in between, a TV with rita and dire predictions for my city. The interviews went ok, but if I had known about the quant ones I would have been better prepared and definitely would have had cleaner and more methodical solutions. Got the stuff right though, eventually. Rita seems to be wussing out, thankfully. 80s night was fun, went post biglebowsking with ms marissa, met some random kittens, yay. marissa lost her keys but we found them on comm ave. more of the waiting game, applied to a few new things this morning, will apply to another two soon as I overcome my coverletter aversion. god I hate coverletters so much. Gyming way late thanks to hangover sleep, but not missing a day! so yeah, drinking, dancing, interviewing, coding, reading. Apparently I need to learn about multithreading and distributed computation, it seems to pop up alot in quant job reqs. and of course perl and shell scripting. Im def doing a CS MS, not an infosys ms. Zlateva told me itd be better, and upon further examination she's quite right, most of the infosys classes are a waste of time for me. I always wanted to take classes in algorithms and neuralnets and computability and such, and now i will! plus a few less interesting ones in database stuff just to cement my cred for future apps. datamining might be neat though, im not sure. It has the potential to be very neat, and its the sort of thing that a genetic ai thing might be designed for...meep. okie done! gymtime
The sun is back! and it was kind enough to bring only a smidgeon of heat.
Playing more of the waiting game + programming + usual readingness + gym = life
friday was super fun... I think! Now that marissa lives here I have someone with whom to do things that involve both vaguely scenesterish indulgence + being over 21, so we went to the Pill. I saw hipster shannon and she was friendly, then I think I saw web guy, and the 35 yr old woman. However I got ridiculously trashed and everything is very vague in my mind. I do remember getting home and then going back for Marissa's coat and then walking her home...and then dreams about zombies mixed up in the buffyverse.
Definitely time for a new round of cooking experimentation, to begin tomorrow. I guess that means more dinner partyness. yeah, there needs to be some more o that as well.
hrm, lately I've been talking to shanko and remembering how much I miss my tams friends. that still pretty much remains the high point of my life. Although, honestly, I was very happy this time last year. Things seemed to be moving forward, and I felt, well, full, with cordelia (granted, she isnt someone I would want to be with now, but at the time it seemed ok...) and the mathfin bit, I felt stressed, sure, but I felt like I was covering all my bases in a sense. I havent felt that way since, and dont know when I will again.
I am amazingly rusty at c++ coding, luckily software engineering is forcing me to excercise a bit of codingness before, say, some sort of options pricing interview comes along and I end up looking retarded.
but dear lord! for kicks i checked out monster nationwide for quant positions....
BOSTON IS THE WORST PLACE FOR THIS JOBSEARCH
there are more opportunities in the following places that are neither nyc nor chicago...
delaware
charlotte nc
virginia
dc
DALLAS AND HOUSTON
most of nj
and the list goes on. my hometown, oilsville, likes quants more than this city. amazing. it actually makes me feel better about having such a rough time getting a real quant job here. and golly, dont get me started on nyc. staying here was a terrible idea, really terrible. im still surprised at how lame boston is for my sorta job. how amazingly lame. there is one position in this city that would really suit me. thats about it. ill end up taking something approximate, i know that, but jesus, youd think all these big financial buildings would contain a few quant jobs. but no, there are more in dallas houston and north bloody carolina than here. amazing. boston is just a cesspool of actuaries and accountants. but yeah, depending on how things go i might up and leave this summer, the only thing really binding me here is the good chance that i will get a phd here, since bu is, yet again, pretty much my best bet. if i get the cs masters that im nibbling at part time, that will make 4 degrees, 3 graduate, from this little ole school. jeepers. creepers.
todays interview went alot better than i thought it would, now i guess we'll see aboot capitol one on thurs. Im applying for a few newbies too, two of which actually look promising. Sadly im pretty sure state street has forgotten about me, its been like 2 weeks. this company today treated me like something better than offal, and isnt all accountanty or actuaryish, so thats nice. actually, the interviewers and i made fun of accountants and actuaries, heh...
1.) upon lifting rita's box that had been living in my basement for a wee bit, I discover a thriving nest of very, very large spiders.
2.)Immediately after exiting my own front door I hear a rustling in the bushes and am accosted by a skunk ready to spray. I run like a bitch and save myself from a pungent catastrophe.
3.) After riding home from the gym post-lifting this morning, a large bug of some sort flies down my throat.
bouncy
awake