Pickup Olympics video November 11, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Links , add a commentHundreds of girls.
Four judges.
Two men.
One bar.
Who will be crowned pickup champion? Let’s watch.
Who said there’s no more great television?
Your thoughts?Traveling man November 9, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Personal , 1 comment so far…and I’m off to Phoenix for my cousin’s wedding. I was really looking forward to getting back to California and to a place where I could call home, but it seems like I’ve got to keep moving for now. And with DC and Australia on the horizon, it doesn’t look like that will be changing anytime soon. Still, what better way to spend a semester off from grad school?
Your thoughts?I swear it’s not a vibrator November 6, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Personal , add a commentWell, I’m back in sunny California once again. My week in New York was great - good weather, good friends, good workshops. It was a little too cold to sleep on the street in a cardboard box, unfortunately enough.
Anyway, after an uneventful flight, I found myself sitting in the BART station at San Francisco airport when I detected a buzzing noise. How curious. I put my head next to my luggage. It did seem to be emanating from there. Curiouser and curiouser. I unzipped my suitcase. The buzzing got louder. I dug through my dirty clothes and pulled out my toiletries bag, which at this point was shaking quite ferociously.
At this point the guy sitting next to me scooted a little further away.
It turned out that I had forgotten to take the batteries out of my electric toothbrush, which must have been on all the way from New York to San Francisco. It’s good to know that my luggage can vibrate all the way across the country without raising any alarms.
Your thoughts?Halloween in New York photos November 4, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Photos , 2 commentsHalloween in New York rocks!
 
 
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Your thoughts?Stress creeps up on you November 3, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Personal, Work , add a commentI’m finally done with my work for Philips Electronics. Yeah, I left my job three weeks ago. But I still needed to hand in my final report, the summary of everything I did over the summer.
It was really hard for me, because I wasn’t proud of it. I lost a month of work when one of my projects ran into a dead end. In grad school, losing a month of work isn’t a big deal. I was barely making a living wage in the first place, and I was putting in 80 hours a week anyway. But this summer, I was getting paid three times as much for only 40 hours a week so I felt really guilty for losing a month’s work. That’s the dollar equivalent of 6 months of grad school work!
And my other projects didn’t exactly go through the roof. Of course, that might just be my imagination because it’s been three years since I worked a job where I only put in 40 hours a week. Maybe I just did the right amount of work for someone working 40 hours a week.
So instead of writing up my final report, I just kept putting it off and putting it off. I didn’t realize how much I had divorced myself from the process until I finally sat myself down and said, “That’s it, I’m finishing it now and I’m not getting up until it’s done.” As soon as I said that, my stomach twisted itself up in a knot and I had to just shut my eyes and plow forward.
But somehow, the work gets done. And maybe I’m not exactly proud of the finished product. I won’t be framing it and putting it up on my wall. But it’s done, all twenty pages of it, and I can finally wrap up that phase of my life and put it behind me.
Now summer’s over. For real this time.
Your thoughts?