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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Fall 2009 Semester, Gone Already
It seems like just two or three weeks ago the fall semester was starting up. I feel like I just got settled into the rhythm of classes. Now it’s a week past over and honestly feels like it was gone in a blink. I have it on good authority that time flies when you’re having [...]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
T+12d
Two weeks into the fall semester now and all is going relatively well. I have managed to not learn anything I didn’t already know. This sounds like gloating, I realize, but that isn’t my intent.
I’m very thankful to have had as good an education as I did in high school. I feel like I probably [...]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
T+10d
A taco dog from Hillbilly has never tasted quite as good as it did today.
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
The Summer Class
In a hurry to cram as much in as possible, I took Calc 3 over the summer. Cram we did. Fortunately, as I’d been informed, this was the easiest of the calculus classes. As is custom, I do like to give a nod to the folks who made it what it was: James, Tom, Adam, [...]
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Day 128
I took my calculus final bright and early this morning at 8. I’m glad it is done. This is a Good Thing. Grades come out Wednesday. I remember the good old days when one could see their grades as they were submitted and posted to MILO. Alas, someone decided it would be a Good Idea [...]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
The End of Semester Post, Belated.
Long standing tradition around here has been to mention by name the people over the course of a semester with which I have worked or had significant contact. This serves mostly to keep track of when I had classes and with whom since my brain is notoriously lossy when it comes to matters of this [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
An open letter to my audience
I don’t know exactly who out there reads my blog. I’m sure there are random folks out there somewhere who stumble upon it, read, and move on about their lives. Welcome to you.
I principally maintain the blog for old friends, just to reassure them I’ve not fallen off of the face of the Earth. They [...]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Good to know I’m not the only fossil
I managed to make it through the first week back in classes. There are several standout items.
First, I feel like a fossil. I don’t consider myself to be an old guy, but the majority of other students running around seem to me, at this point, to be aged about twelve. Indeed, I am nearly a [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
The Next Step
It has been two years, roughly, since I graduated. That was May 2006. Shamefully, since then, the only steady work I’ve had was three months working retail. I’ve done odd jobs here and there, started my own business with not-that-much-more work and managed to not save a nickel.
Ultimately, with the degree I have there is [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Pebble in the Shoe
I and this game of full-contact retail don’t play nice together. Tonight epitomized pretty much everything I hate about it. For the last three hours of my shift, I was playing a one man defense in what should be a three-man team. Things work best when there are three of us. Anytime somebody needs something [...]