Long time no blog

A lot has happened since I last blogged:

Tuesday: I gave my final seminar. Seems to have gone well, though while it was happening I was convinced it was horrible.

Wednesday: Packed up my office. I ended up not being able to take my stuff out of the building through clusterfuck miscommunications with bureaucracy, so it is all stacked up neatly awaiting my return.

Thursday: Fly to NYC.

Friday: Drive to Maine for my college roommate's wedding.

Still to come:

Her wedding, trip down to DC, interviews with a reasonably prestigous university there for an adjunct position (instead of London, since I am in a cynical phase), get back to NYC, fly to LA, then...???

Wish me luck!

I must declare myself done with the seminar preparations, since I am falling asleep...

I could definitely have used another run through...Maybe tomorrow...or maybe I'll just wing it.

Job anxiety

I just got an email from RL that has me all roiled up. I just can't get worked up about it now; I don't have time. But how does one ignore the questions of where to live, where and how to earn, how to spend one's days?

Monday 9:35

I have a long day ahead of me. My final seminar is tomorrow morning and my slides are nowhere near done, not to mention that I always need to do several run-throughs. Fortunately, the fear of imminent public humiliation is the perfect motivator.

Bugs be gone

Normally I like debugging code, but it is getting pretty tedious.

Sunday

Yesterday was nicely frittered away. I got started on the first few slides for my presentation--the ones that require no thought (Thank you, Mr R., for your money, etc.) and reacquainted myself with slides in LaTeX (so super cool, by the way). I then actually dressed up like the female that I am (surprising but true) and went out to the local pick-up bar with VS. We didn't get picked up, but I got to hear about her latest dating trials and I got to dump about all of my anxienties about jobs-future-ambition-etc. We then went to get pizza and got picked up by the pizza guys. And I was tucked into bed by 11:00--I love nights like that!

Today, however, I must buckle down. I have strange desires to try to do the remaining changes to my dissertation before my seminar. If I really want to do that, I need to get the slides out of the way pronto.