Today, I moved with the help of my friends. I rented a U-Haul. We got all my stuff out of storage. We dropped off half my stuff at Choon and Pei-Sun’s. Then we finished the job at my house. We went out to eat because it’s customary to treat all your slave laborers to a compensatory meal afterward. It’s only fair. It’s only just. Except that I didn’t end up paying, and I’m not sure how the hell that happened. The check came. I was lightning fast with the Mastercard and it was back in the hands of the waitress in about .57 seconds. It should have been done. Over. Finito. But no. Somehow Choon managed to not only wrestle the bill away from the waitress, but he managed to get the waitress to be on their side! I’m not sure how that happened, but I know I feel unworthy.
Moving Day, Part Duex
Well today I’m moving all my stuff out of storage. I’m stashing th couch and the tv at Choon’s place, and I’m gonna uhaul the rest of my stuff to my place to sort thru during the week and repack what I don’t need. I never like arranging these things. There’s too much pressure to make everyone happy and satisfied. And really it’s all your fault for making your friends wake up early.
The living room will be a mess. 🙂
Off to State College
So the boys are off to Sylvia’s memorial in State College, PA. They are wandering on the roads during what is to be predicted to be the first major snowstorm of the season. And it already seemed as if we have had 3 or 4 major snowstorms.
Just Some Thoughts..
In high school, everything came pretty easily to me. I understood a lot of the formulas and concepts. I could look at problems and have some greater sense of how everything interacted and what theories or methods applied to that particular problem. A lot of my friends didn’t quite have the same insights. Somehow I couldn’t understand why. I thought they were definitely smart enough to understand everything in front of them. When I gave them hints to problems they could solve them. That just reinforced my idea that everyone could grok these things.
Now I realize that they aren’t held back by their intelligence. It’s the fear and panic of realizing that you don’t have the insight to solve these problems. That fear blinds their critical thinking that needs to be there to think rationally about it. Then it just goes downhill from there.
Anyways, dunno what my point is. Just something I was thinking about. Sorry I didn’t call you back Doris. I’m OK tho.
Interesting Read..
http://paulgraham.com/hs.html
Apparently this guy is a CS dude, a painter, an author and a dot-com millionaire…
Oh Well…
So goes Nvidia. I had a pretty crappy interview. It’s okay tho, they work in a sweatshop anyways but it still sucks.
Oh no! It’s pizza day.
So today is pizza day at Bright Horizons. For 2 weeks now, Vince has been OK with leaving before the pizza was served at noon. Today was different. He really, really, really wanted to stay and he threw a tantrum to prove it. We asked if there were extra slices and the answer was no… He was so distraught, he peed in his pants on the way home.
On a more adult note, I was invited to the German expat morning “English coffee hour” and had a lovely time. We had tea and scones an homemade bread and butter. Also we played Boggle which I have to say, even though my English is fluent, the Germans were not to shabby.
Busy Studying.
Wow. A Flurry of interviewing action. Apparently I’ve got some sort of talk/interview with 3 companies in the next 3 working days. Weird. I have a lot of studying to do. laff.
Whoops. I almost forgot about my classes too. hrm. strange. Well the schedule works out anyways. hrm. I’ll have to remind myself about it from now on.
Thing with Joceyn are better. We talked last night and now we’re not pissy at each other at least – even tho nothing really got decided as usual.
Okay. I’m going to eat some cereal now.