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Category Archives: Occupation
The toxicity of Facebook
Of course, everything I discuss here can be generalized beyond Facebook, but it is arguably the biggest perpetrator, and therefore the easiest example. I’ve made similar posts before, but today’s content is decidedly more personal. Why Facebook brings out the … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Occupation, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged building connections more like building political hatred, even though i would love nothing more than to perma-delete my facebook with extreme prejudice, facebook, facebook is le suck, important things shouldn't go on facebook, ipso facto nothing should go on facebook, oversharing, pittsburgh, reality would seem to dictate i have an account, we heart pittsburgh
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The Job Hunt
Since the start of October, I’ve been in full-on job-hunting mode. Courtesy of Ph.D. Comics, this pretty much sums up how I feel: Something any prospective doctor of philosophy should know: academic and industry hiring processes are very different. Universities are going … Continue reading
101 in 1001: Follow-up
Just about a week ago, the deadline for my Feb 13, 2011 post came up. It was a pretty neat idea: rather than go with a “new year’s resolution” that is usually poorly-defined and craps out within the first couple … Continue reading
Moving
It sucks. Unless you love books, of course. Quite literally the morning after my successful thesis proposal, The Lady and I started the day-long process of moving our respective items from our respective apartments into our swank new two-bedroom pad. … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Internet, Occupation, Real Life, Research, Running, the fam, The Lady
Tagged achievement unlocked: thesis proposed, awesome new apartment is awesome, internet owns, kitty invented a new kind of yoga specifically tailored for kitties, moving sucks, pad thai and beer, stargate atlantis, stargate makes unpacking just a little more bearable, stargate sg-1, stress
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Day 14: Last day!
Yesterday was my last work day at ORNL for the summer. Aside from a very hectic two hours in the morning, during which I was frantically trying to reunite with my phone, it was a pretty quiet day, like most … Continue reading
A Summer Experiment
As I may or may not have mentioned here, I’m at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the summer (a rapidly-closing summer: I head back to Pittsburgh on June 30), officially working on a CMS-sanctioned project to unify disparate health care … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Photo, Occupation, Real Life
Tagged ascii guinea pigs > all, cms, day 0, if the picture is of you and absolutely nothing else then that's cool though it's still not my personal preference, knoxville, no instagramming here plz and thx, oak ridge, oak ridge national labs, ornl, the daily was hard so i'm hoping daily photo is a little easier, the fact that cms != content management system actually took me a week to figure out, to be fair real guinea pigs > ascii guinea pigs
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Theatre of Consciousness 