It’s amazing how weekends change when drinking and smoking suddenly aren’t an option.
First of all, I wake up earlier: today I arose at around 8:30am. And I was AWAKE… none of this ethereal haze of a hangover whose only cure is 4 hours in front of Sex and the City and fried food. None of this not remembering the conversations I had the night before.
None of this feeling like ass.
The evenings are a little rough. Last night I tried to go to happy hour at the Crown but I didn’t last very long. I’ve been feeling uncomfortable hanging out with the other grad students, and that paired with smokers had me craving cigarettes like a bitch. So I traded up for some not necessarily better company.
The whole thing was a bitter realization that I can’t really handle going to bars yet. I was okay for a while, but I’m so on edge lately that any of my old triggers are just too tempting.
So tonight I stayed in haxx0ring the interweb. Tim and I spent way too much time trying to get our favicons to work (the little icon in the html field). We eventually succeeded (and by “we”, I mean Tim figured it out first and then I followed his lead). Naturally, it was all just stupid and easy in the end. Fucking computers suck away so much time! And yet, this is fun for me.
That reminds me, we had pizza delivered from The Flying Tomato Pizza Kitchen, or as Tim calls it, “stupid pizza” because they have bullshit like “Thai Chicken Pizza” and “Texas Gulf Shrimp Scampi Pizza” (???). But free delivery. We went with “The Greek Goddess” which had mozzarella, kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, pepperocinis, roasted garlic and feta cheese. No sauce though, which I missed. Excellent thin crust, however; I’ll go back to try the more standard “Pizza Margherita” (tomato sauce, cheese, roma tomatoes and fresh basil).
So overall it’s been good keeping things simple lately. I’m doing lots of things I’ve been wanting to do like learn java, exercise almost daily, and cook lots. I have little time left to do the things I need to do like look for a job! I guess the trouble is that I’m excited about java and fitness; I’m not so excited about the job hunt. Every time I start, I become really scared because I feel like 19 years in school means 19 years not learning real life skills. Stats jobs want me to know SAS, which I don’t, analysis jobs want me to be an programming guru, which I’m not, and everything else wants experience experience experience, which I don’t have. It’s quite daunting but I’m sure I’ll pull through, even if that means going through a recruiter type person.
But for tonight I’m digging this NetNewsWire thing. There’s some neat new feeds out there…
- iTunes Music Store RSS Feed Generator
- Dilbert
- Word Of The Day
- RuPaul!!
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