| Nov. 7th, 2009 @ 10:27 pm The Most Overdue Livejournal Entry Yet |
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It's been months since my last posting. The longer I delay this entry, the longer the entry gets, and the easier it is to delay it even further. However, circumstances have presented an opportunity to do so, so here we go! I'm up for the challenge.
To be fair, I'm cheating a bit. I'm using my Facebook status updates to help me remember events that have happened in the past few months. Yes, it's far easier to write a 1-line Facebook update than it is paragraphs of updates in LiveJournal. Perhaps this is why many of my LJ friends have stopped updating their Livejounals. However, I still enjoy the more thorough updates that LJ provides over Facebook, so I'll be stubbornly sticking to it.
Let's see...how about starting of with new places for awesome eats? A couple of months ago, a yogurt shop called Spun opened up across the street from our house. It's convenient, well priced, and extremely tasty. I'm very pleased with this. They offer 2 flavors of yogurt - 1 is plain, and the other is whatever their flavor of the day happens to be. It'd be nice to see the flavor of the day posted on their website.
At MIT, I've recently found out about the Clover food truck. The food is all vegetarian, and amazing. I've been making a daily trek across the campus to eat there during my lunch breaks. I really can't do the place justice in a posting. Everything they serve is priced well and amazingly tasty. Check out their website if you find yourself curious, and stop by the Kendall / MIT redline stop during lunch if you find yourself in the area.
In September, I attempted to see a preview of Michael Moore's new film in Harvard Square. I stood outside in the cold and waited for hours, but didn't make the cut. I would have made it, but there was a problem with line skipping. It was the first night that it got cold enough that I decided to break out my winter wardrobe.
My ER6 earbuds finally bit the dust. I got myself a paid of Skullycandy TIs to replace them with. I wanted headphones instead of earbuds this time around, but I can't really use the headphones on the train due to noise issues. So it's either get another set of noise-isolating earbuds, or a really expensive set of noise-canceling headphones. I haven't decided which way I'm going to go yet.
Windows 7 came out October 22nd. It's a pretty awesome OS. You should switch to it if your hardware can support it. If its a really old computer, do a driver check first. You can get cheap $30 copies from Microsoft if you have a .edu address.
I had a visit to West Virginia near the end of October. I did the usually multi-day gaming session with my gaming group back in WV. The games of choice were Demigod, Dawn of War II Last Stand, and Left 4 Dead. My sister had a baby in the middle of the week. I guess that makes me an Uncle. I got to play DDR Supernova at Park Place Cinema. My friend Colin had a wedding in Fayetteville, WV while I was back. I was a groomsman for this wedding, and some of the highlights include going to a redneck bar the night before, and a very tasty reception.
As of November 6th, this will make my third year of working tech support at MIT. I really wanted out of the job on my second year, and I'm pretty torn up inside about being here for the third year. I feel like my career life has been crippled by the recession. All the opportunities that I had for the taking have been shutdown by MITs job freeze. I've been looking for other opportunities, but nothing has worked out. It really hurts watching my friends who have good pay jobs that are more important than my little tech support gig. I want a job upgrade so badly at this point.
I had an interview with Tufts University that went well enough that I was asked back for the 2nd interview. However, during the 2nd interview, I was not only offered less money than I was told before over the phone, but the co-workers told me horrors stories about how dysfunctional the department I'd be working in would be, and made what I thought was an appealing job look like a job I'd run away from. The last thing I want is to go from a situation I'm unhappy in, to an even worst situation. I guess I should be careful job hunting in this recession.
Right now, I'm currently in Philadelphia attending another friend's wedding. I was given late notice on this wedding, so I had to take the Boltbus down. I do, however, have a plane ticket back to Boston on Monday evening. So at least that portion of the trip won't take forever. Boltbus wasn't terrible, either. the seating was nice, and it's fairly awesome to have an Internet signal as you travel. I wouldn't take it over a cheap plane ticket, but its not a bad way to travel.
I don't know what I'll be doing until Monday evening. The friend I'm with is obviously going to ditch me at every turn because he's trying to get close to a female he's interested in, and thus wants alone time. He's a long time friend whom I care about a lot, but I'm afraid as the years have gone by, we seem to have less and less in common. You just can't go back, I guess. We're both different people now. I like hanging out with him enough, but soon he'll have a girl, and then he'll get married, and then he'll have kids. I might date someone sooner or later, but right now my career problems are top on my mind. I never see myself married or having kids.
Sorry for the spam everyone! :) Read if you give a crap. I'll be updating this massive update with links for people to click on later. ( If anybody cares. ) I'm not using my standard LJ editor, and it's a pain to do with my current editor. |
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