From witeoutking
1. Things seem to have been rapidly presenting ups and downs for you. So a "simple" first question. How are you doing?
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( Depressed rant: This is your fair warning. )

My childhood was damned complicated.

Job search: I have a potential job which I am seriously considering taking. There are a lot of things I like about this job, but some things which I need to find out about which might be problems. The decision is making me a little nervous. I don't want to take another job that I will wind up hating ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I have a design requirement meeting with most of the engineering staff at my company (I think 5 people will be there). This should allow me to be more productive. Trying to do a design when you don't know the requirements is difficult ( Read more... )

Everything in my own personal life right now is going really well. Yet, I cried tonight. Why you ask? Because my closest friends aren't having it so good, and I feel like I can't tell them about my life for fear of making them jealous. And I feel stupid complaining about this. I'd rather make a happy post ( Read more... )

2004 was a pretty major year for me. I graduated college, enrolled in and dropped out of grad school, and finally stopped being a student. I moved to a state where I knew no one, and moved back. I ended the longest relationship I'd ever been in, and ended up in two new ones (not simultaneously). I finished the longest project I'd ever worked on ( Read more... )

I just want the fighting to stop!

Being fresh out of school, I've been thinking about what I'm going to be doing with my life (possibly a foolish thing to be doing). There is a pretty straight forward pictures that comes to mind: getting a tech job, working 9-to-5, seeing friends a couple nights a week and on weekends, eventually getting married and raising a couple kids. It's a ( Read more... )

I've discovered that they are lots of discussion that happen on the web (on LJ, on blogs, and on forums) that I have things to contribute to. But I rarely actually say anything. Why, you might ask. Because for me trying to put my view in a cohesive written form is just too much trouble, especially when I'm trying to make a convincing argument. ( Read more... )