I already done did my business and I don' need anybody to help me do it - A Floridean

Nov 08, 2004 22:46

Back again, I have been having exciting weeks filled with planning and preparation. My writing is at its most prolific when I have no news and not much to say, which is when I have enough time to process little things and find them silly. Things are really quite well with me, which has led to much running around with no news.
Firstly, though least importantly, I've completed a journal article with a friend of mine at Cal. The irony in the situation, of course, is that I finished my degree at UC Berkeley in August. The further irony is that the paper is to be published in a computer science journal. None of my degrees are in computer science. I won't even try to go into what the paper was about because 1)its kinda boring, and 2) even a rocket scientist would find it confusing when described in less than 8 pages (I know because I asked one to read it). My friend and his advisor both came down with wrist injuries from waiting until the last minute on posters for a conference over the summer, so they asked me to help out, at the last minute of course, coding and writing for them because they were both "crippled by [their] hands." It was a fun project, involved using really really awsome graphics cards donated by NVidia. We could have been playing some seriously awsome video games with those things, but sadly we were running Linux. The stuff we made looked really pretty, though. This project took up much of my life for several weeks and came to a thrilling conclusion at 10:30pm last monday, an hour and a half shy of the final deadline.
Secondly, and actually of importance, I have a accepted a job with Lockheed Martin designing and testing robots for construction of space stations in outer space. The project is affiliated with NASA, and JPL too I think, so its like I actually got the job I interviewed for many months ago, except I won't have to move to LA to do it. This is a non-military project, non-classified, so I won't have to worry about polygraphs or risk being tried for treason for telling anyone about my job (I'm dead serious). I like that fact. That and the project and people seem very very cool.
I'll be moving to Palo Alto within a couple weeks so everybody should come visit me. Well, my job is in Palo Alto, basically across the street from Stanford, but I'll technically be living in Sunnyvale. I'm moving into an apartment that is reasonably priced by La Jolla standards. I'm paying over 50% more than Darrick in Portland for an apartment that's half the size. But that's ok, I'm in the huppiest complex in town, though most definitely not the most expensive. The apartments are in a redwood grove, there are 3 swimming pools, 4 tennis courts, two large ponds, a theater, a billiard hall, and a large hot-tub.
I actually know very little about the job except that it looks cool. I know the robots are cool, I saw those. I don't really know what my job is though. I'm gonna be in the lab "being hands-on", but I'm also gonna be behind a desk doing "analysis". Analysis of what? I don't know. I think I'm gonna get my own office, everyone I saw in my lab had his own office. Yes "his", no women anywhere that I saw. But my cousin does ballet at Stanford so I should be able to interact with women my age one way or another.
Its all very exciting, scary, and very very distracting. I should have more news as it comes along.
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