Little duckies, all in a row
Took the GRE today. I think it actually broke me out of my writers block funk I was in. The writing portion of the test was actually quite fun -- one section asked me to write about how studying something changed your view on the world (which I have no trouble writing for hours about) and the other asked me to rip apart a fallacious argument (which I also rabidly enjoy doing). I expect high writing scores. Math score was fine. Verbal score was enh. Good enough to get into the department I want, in any case.
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patterson_ar drove my car into a wall. Slid it, really. Everyone is fine, the damage to the car is fixed, but it's never a good thing to wake up to your roommate crying on the phone because he crashed your car. Conversation:
phone: *RING*
me: "Nyurgh."
him: (obviously very agitated) "Did I wake you up?"
me: "yeah."
him: (more agitated still) "Does that mean you'll be more grumpy than usual?"
me: "Did you crash my car?"
him: "yeah ..."
me: "Where are you?"
him: *explanations of whereabouts and iciness*
me: "Okay, I'll be right there."
phone: *click*
me: (thining to self) "oh shit, I forgot to ask if everyone was okay."
phone: *RING*
him: "hello?"
me: "Is everyone okay?"
him: "yeah"
me: "okay, I'm gonna take a shower first. I'll call you when I'm on my way."
Turns out he just didn't know how to handle a car on ice. Note to Seattleites: TURN INTO THE SKID. But, the collision was at about 3mph, and it just scraped and bent a few things. Broke the mirror. Small stuff. While it was in the shop, I took the opportunity to get a couple other things fixed, so now it has headlights the point in the correct direction (mountings have been broken since I got it, years ago). Yay for visibility. Now to buy some nice, bright lights for it.
I've decided to get a Masters degree. I've found a Masters of Science in Information Management, night and weekend courses only, that fits with my schedule. Two year program. At the UW. That I can afford. So I'm doing it. Now that the GRE is out of the way, I just need to actually write up the application essay and find one more person to write me a recommendation letter. I have one professor and one previous manager; the third will probably be a current coworker.
Work has been ... lots. Lots of work. I really like my new job. I'm just at the point where I can't quite keep everything floating in my head, and have to start actually making policy decisions. Rock the boat! As an IT guy, dealing with developers is simultaneously the best and the worst of it. On one hand, the devs are usually computer savvy enough that we don't have to do much desktop support. On the other hand, they know just enough to shoot themselves in the foot, time and time again, and *still* think they should have root on the production servers. It's a constant struggle to delineate where dev privileges end and IT privileges begin.
Wow. ariata just got a 29 point hand in bridge. Most people won't know what that means, but it pretty much means she wins, even without help from her partner, because she has nearly *all* the high cards.
I've been losing weight. I'm going to get down to 220lbs. That was a good weight for me, I think. I started trying to lose weight in the beginning of November, which wasn't very easy, what with Thanksgiving and all. I was 280lbs when I started, and I was at 265 when I weighed myself a couple days ago. It's gone up and down (up near the end of November, what a surprise), but the overall trend seems to be down about ten pounds a month. I'm happy with that. I'm not really changing anything except when and how much I eat: Instead of eating until I'm full, I eat until I'm no longer hungry (which I've found is literally about half as much food), and I'm eating breakfast and no longer eating in the three hours before I go to bed. I still eat whatever I feel like. Seems to be working.
That's about the state of my world.
