Updated Journal... T-bag? No way.
So this is how it happens, I never thought I'd post in this thing again. Well its 9:11 Central time, but as a few of you know I'm living in San Francisco for the summer with my girlfriend thejuishgirl so I'm pretending like I got up at 7:00 without help of a two-hour time difference in my favor. So, really fast, since my last post:
I got offers from all five companies I interviewed with and ended up with the one that's in San Francisco... (makes sense, right?). I will be receiving the least money after living expenses, but Julie and I get to spend the summer here. It's also the only insurance company I could ever work at (called Fireman's Fund) so I thought I'd give insurance a shot even though I hate it (SF, remember?). We found a nice place in the Outer Richmond area of the city just south of Lincoln Park on about Geary and 34th. Everyone in the building speaks some other random language except for the lady we're renting from and her friend upstairs who we still haven't met.
I passed SOA course 2 (can't remember if I said that already) and sat for 4 (oh god did that suck), though I think it's called "Course C" now instead of 4... C for shitty? I got another round of straight A's, so now I have 138 hours and a 4.0 at UT, though I did just barely make an A in my investments class (yay for 89.7's!). Speaking of investments, that random assortment of funds is still doing pretty well, though I may have to sell some for liquidity, because I haven't worked in about a month and am out of money. I bought a new monitor for my computer and I think I got a new Mobo since I updated last, so it's nice and quiet and very powerful and OMG this monitor rocks.
Julie and I are doing fine still... we've been together over 5 years now. We've gotten in a few more fights recently but that can be expected when you're both nervous about moving in with each other to play house for the summer, right? Also, I haven't started my internship yet, though I'm sure it'll be fun. I begin on Monday, and Julie starts working at the San Francisco Center AE on Sunday (somehow she'll be working more hours than me, though she's part-time and I'm full-time).
We drove from Houston all the way out here and saw so much stuff. We stopped in El Paso for dinner, slept in Las Cruces, and Palm Springs, and stopped in Pasadena for some shopping. Unfortunately my car’s engine owned itself about 90 miles south of SF. More precisely, I never put oil in said oil-burning engine because I’m a retard, and therefore the engine probably threw a rod or scored a cylinder, etc. We coasted it into a city and had to have it towed the rest of the way ($420 or so). All in all the trip cost about $1100 between repairs before I left, motels/gas, and the towing. Between that, my sublessor wanting like all of her rent payments up front (which are NOT cheap), blowing $600+ on a monitor, clothes, and the like, and and not having worked since finals, I am way broke. I will get paid soon enough, but I’ve wiped out all of my checking account, ran up one of my credit cards, and cleaned out my “liquidity” savings account (which was quite huge since I am Mr. Always-be-prepared). Besides having to idle a broken car back and forth across the street weekly because of street cleaning, SF’s been great.
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Also, work and club stuff went well. I'd been working about 15 hours a week, but it ain't no thang. Finals kinda sucked because students get crazy and book like 9 sessions in a 2 day period (no joke, that really happened). I organized an Ice Cream Social for the club (Actuarial Science Club, remember?) as our end-of-year event, and invited about 100 non-students and the entire actuarial student body. We had about 15 non-students (professors, alumni, company reps, speakers from the year) and 20 students show up. All in all, it was a success. Next year will be better if I get on the ball and start e-mailing speakers in the next month or so; If not, it will suck again. Also, I've kinda promised everyone that I would do some sorta case competetion for interested students... yeah... haven't thought that one through...
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Anyway, why did I update my journal? I'll tell you: We were walking around downtown the other night and one of the random professional bums just says "watch out for the crazy Japanese lady" instead of singing or standing on his head or just be ridiculously annoying like they usually are. Well I didn’t quite catch it and ignored it because I figured he was begging, but sure enough, another half a block and there’s this crazy (probably drunk) Japanese lady screaming stuff in Japanese at the top of her lungs. It finally hits me what the bum said and I look back to see him start laughing. It was probably the weirdest and most random experience I’ve had in a while and I thought to myself… it might actually be worth trying to sum up the last few months in my LJ just to tell everyone about the crazy, horribly-dressed (lots of pink and green and other bright colored sweat-suit material) Japanese lady. Dear god this city is weird… kinda reminds me of home.
Anyhoo… I’m gonna go make Julie breakfast and get another cup of coffee. Leave comments about your oddest hobo encounter or anything that’s happened in the last 6 months.
I got offers from all five companies I interviewed with and ended up with the one that's in San Francisco... (makes sense, right?). I will be receiving the least money after living expenses, but Julie and I get to spend the summer here. It's also the only insurance company I could ever work at (called Fireman's Fund) so I thought I'd give insurance a shot even though I hate it (SF, remember?). We found a nice place in the Outer Richmond area of the city just south of Lincoln Park on about Geary and 34th. Everyone in the building speaks some other random language except for the lady we're renting from and her friend upstairs who we still haven't met.
I passed SOA course 2 (can't remember if I said that already) and sat for 4 (oh god did that suck), though I think it's called "Course C" now instead of 4... C for shitty? I got another round of straight A's, so now I have 138 hours and a 4.0 at UT, though I did just barely make an A in my investments class (yay for 89.7's!). Speaking of investments, that random assortment of funds is still doing pretty well, though I may have to sell some for liquidity, because I haven't worked in about a month and am out of money. I bought a new monitor for my computer and I think I got a new Mobo since I updated last, so it's nice and quiet and very powerful and OMG this monitor rocks.
Julie and I are doing fine still... we've been together over 5 years now. We've gotten in a few more fights recently but that can be expected when you're both nervous about moving in with each other to play house for the summer, right? Also, I haven't started my internship yet, though I'm sure it'll be fun. I begin on Monday, and Julie starts working at the San Francisco Center AE on Sunday (somehow she'll be working more hours than me, though she's part-time and I'm full-time).
We drove from Houston all the way out here and saw so much stuff. We stopped in El Paso for dinner, slept in Las Cruces, and Palm Springs, and stopped in Pasadena for some shopping. Unfortunately my car’s engine owned itself about 90 miles south of SF. More precisely, I never put oil in said oil-burning engine because I’m a retard, and therefore the engine probably threw a rod or scored a cylinder, etc. We coasted it into a city and had to have it towed the rest of the way ($420 or so). All in all the trip cost about $1100 between repairs before I left, motels/gas, and the towing. Between that, my sublessor wanting like all of her rent payments up front (which are NOT cheap), blowing $600+ on a monitor, clothes, and the like, and and not having worked since finals, I am way broke. I will get paid soon enough, but I’ve wiped out all of my checking account, ran up one of my credit cards, and cleaned out my “liquidity” savings account (which was quite huge since I am Mr. Always-be-prepared). Besides having to idle a broken car back and forth across the street weekly because of street cleaning, SF’s been great.
Added in an edit
Also, work and club stuff went well. I'd been working about 15 hours a week, but it ain't no thang. Finals kinda sucked because students get crazy and book like 9 sessions in a 2 day period (no joke, that really happened). I organized an Ice Cream Social for the club (Actuarial Science Club, remember?) as our end-of-year event, and invited about 100 non-students and the entire actuarial student body. We had about 15 non-students (professors, alumni, company reps, speakers from the year) and 20 students show up. All in all, it was a success. Next year will be better if I get on the ball and start e-mailing speakers in the next month or so; If not, it will suck again. Also, I've kinda promised everyone that I would do some sorta case competetion for interested students... yeah... haven't thought that one through...
/Added in an edit
Anyway, why did I update my journal? I'll tell you: We were walking around downtown the other night and one of the random professional bums just says "watch out for the crazy Japanese lady" instead of singing or standing on his head or just be ridiculously annoying like they usually are. Well I didn’t quite catch it and ignored it because I figured he was begging, but sure enough, another half a block and there’s this crazy (probably drunk) Japanese lady screaming stuff in Japanese at the top of her lungs. It finally hits me what the bum said and I look back to see him start laughing. It was probably the weirdest and most random experience I’ve had in a while and I thought to myself… it might actually be worth trying to sum up the last few months in my LJ just to tell everyone about the crazy, horribly-dressed (lots of pink and green and other bright colored sweat-suit material) Japanese lady. Dear god this city is weird… kinda reminds me of home.
Anyhoo… I’m gonna go make Julie breakfast and get another cup of coffee. Leave comments about your oddest hobo encounter or anything that’s happened in the last 6 months.