I love getting my payment notices from my publisher ‘cause it’s like:
This month you are going to buy groceries
Paid for by gay porn.GOD BLESS LITERATURE.
Sam Starbuck, everyone.
He does indeed lead a charmed life.
I distinctly recall saying I was not going to get drunk on work nights anymore.
But there was wine, and then I was challenged to Mario Kart “Don’t Drink and Drive” and I managed to win the whole bracket. Which is pretty impressive because I beat a non-drinker in the finals and by then I had to have taken at least 5 shots.
So there’s that.
I also spent an hour last night around 1am chasing/stalking bunnies around the grass outside Draper labs…I didn’t catch a single one and I am very sad about that.
Haha… yeah, I am totes working from home today. Walking is difficult for me still.
replies about apartment search
It does have its downsides; while I would probably want to kill anyone I lived with inside a few months, it can be depressing coming home to an empty apartment day in, day out. But if you have a support network in place it can be a blessing.
I can definitely see that. Luckily, I’m staying in the same city so everyone I know from undergrad and grad school people are still here, plus the 30+ people I know from PAX. I almost never invite people to my apartment as it is now, I’m very much a going out and meeting people person.
You might look at cheap 1brs too. I know you don’t want to go that far with the rent but studios can be oddly claustrophobic even when they’re huge. Lack of doorways, or something.
Ahh, good point. I’ve actually found a couple 2brs that are within my price range and I’ve contacted them too about me renting it alone. It’s super weird that 1brs and 2br apartments can both be found in the 1000-1300 range. My biggest concern (over claustrophobia) is that there’s in house laundry. I love doing laundry but only when it doesn’t require me to go to a laundry mat :P
When I was looking at places and I mentioned my nationality I’d get an almost immediate phone call.
It’s amazing the little things that really grab peoples attention. I think I might try re-emailing some of the places that haven’t responded and casually mention I’m definitely in the area for at least two years due to my work on NASA Osiris-REx and see if that gets a response.
And then Nakki thought about how miserable she’s been for the past year, living with other human beings and it occurred to her, paying an extra $300 a month is probably totally worth it to have her own space.
And now I’ve got appointments at 5 different studio apartments over the next week to find something for either June 1st move in or Sept 1st move in (If I get a June 1st, I’ll find an MIT student to sublet my old room for the summer).
This is gonna be awesome, I might actually have my own place and be able to do my own things and not interact with other human beings when all I want is to drink and livestream in peace. =)
Also, I’ve noticed that in the emails I send where I say I’m a MIT rocket science working on a NASA spacecraft I get waaaaaaaay quicker responses then just saying I’m an aerospace engineer. Using words to my advantage: +10 rental points!
I’m not J.J. Abrams, who’s ultimately responsible. I’m just his Asian puppet. Which, by the way, is also the title of my autobiography.
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John Cho (x) yo my heart is racing at the guts it takes to say something like this knowing full well what could happen. damn!!!! (via strugglingtobeheard) Seriously, this man is amazing and incredibly ballsy! Good for him! |
I guess this trailer came out yesterday or something? Because two unconnected brickspace friends emailed this to me this morning with the comments “the concept of this film accurately describes us” and “all our lives we have been training to be in this movie”
Or, maybe it’s just that I drink with these two people a lot.
Wow, two people—who both drink as much as I drink—immediately think of me as their go to drinking person. Does that mean that I actually consume twice the amount of alcohol they do? Or do they each have a third person who is the second person they drink with like I have?
I’ve been hating on myself a lot today.
At lunch I had probably one of the worst runs I’ve had since I started. I could only run about 30 feet before my lungs seized up and I couldn’t inhale or exhale. I ended up running 4 miles in almost an hour. I took a breathe (and a hit off my inhaler) would run until my lungs burned and my vision tunnelled and stop to gasp and try to get enough oxygen in my lungs to start again.
I hate New England spring and the stupid fucking trees trying to fornicate.
Anyways, I went out for ice cream this evening (to try to punish/make myself feel better) and instead ended up running two miles in my fancy day clothes with no trouble at all. Clearly if I just switch to night time running I’ll be ok.
But my team for Tough Mudder runs during lunch and I want to run with them.
Also, I have a run this weekend (Freedom Run) and next (Tough Mudder), they’re both at noon time. If the pollen count doesn’t dip in the next day or two they are also going to be horrible runs when I am unfortunately in the view of a lot of people and wearing my Carol running gear.
I really hate this season and my stupid body right now.
