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Funny, despite all of the gloom and foreboding, it stopped raining when I left the school. Completely. I rushed back up to my office to grab my blades, and even went out to buy some milk. Not a drop from the sky. What a bizarre turn of events.
Today is pay day, it is also Cosmo's last day working here (officially). To celebrate, the lab went out to the Fox and Pheasant for lunch. I was thinking that this would be enough food to sustain me for the day, and so I skipped out on breakfast. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Fortunately, I still had a bag of cookies in my office (I had finished off the family shortcake and chocolate chip cookies the day before). They were nice cookies. Really, they were nice. I think I've had nice cookies before, but I had forgotten how they tasted. Quite nice.
On the way to the Fox and Pheasant, weirDo and I noticed some TV news reporter hanging around the junction to the university plaza. He was already talking to someone, so we tried to slip by, but when we got there, he had finished up talking with those people and turned his camera towards weirDo. Dang. We stuck around to answer a couple of questions on where we were going to go after we graduated. Then he turned his camera to me and asked the same question. After I answered, he asked:
"So you're not worried about taxes?"
So I told him that I'd worry about taxes once I got a job. Then we left. I didn't think we'd be on the news as the reporter didn't ask for our names, but weirDo mentioned that they sometimes just show clips without putting up names and stuff. Funny how he didn't interview the third man..
We got to the Fox and Pheasant without interruption after that. I was in the mood for some fish and chips and they had a special going on. Funny enough, it was for the fish and chips that most of us ordered. Quite serendipitous.
Since it was pay day, there was a CGSS coffee and donuts as well. Unfortunately, I got there an hour late and by that time, the selection was a little.. sparse. Ah well, that's what happens when you wait.
I heard later on the news about statistics that were just released showing that there existed a "brain drain" from Canada to the States. Most of them happened to be in the computer science and.. some other field. I guess when we told that reporter that we were in chemistry, he must have lost interest, since I checked the news tonight, and the only person who made it on was some CS guy. Whew! Dodged a bullet that time.
Growly is alive! He also promises to update his homepage soon:
"In case you wondered, I _will_ be updating my home page soonish -- even if I have to hire a secretary to do it!"
Well, now that's two homepages that should be up and about sometime soon.. (more reason to waste time surfing..)
Speaking of wasting time, Growly passed me a link to a.. shall we say, journalesque account of a day in the life of your average (male) grad student. Makes great, and mostly accurate, stabs at life as a grad student.. (well, accurate for me). The file is at photo.net and I've been told it's a great place to waste time.
"BTW, i heartily recommend the entire website (photo.net), if you're into wasting literary HOURS reading about the many pleasures and pains of being an MIT geek/entrepreneur."
I have yet to see the site for myself (busy doing work.. yeah.. that's right), but check it out sometime.
Okay okay, so I did have a bit of time, and boy, is this page chock full of stuff. Even with lowly Lynx, I was able to glean quite a bit of information. What was of interest to me, was the suggestions and anecdotes on Envisioning a Site That Won't Be Featured In suck.com. Quite a good read, and a number of philosophical musings in there as well.
I really don't like allergies.. *snort*
Cleaned up the code a bit. After I played around with the tags, I rechecked to see if they were still all HTML 4 compliant. They weren't. What a pain.
[Saturday, August 28, 1999: I can't believe that I didn't finish this. I must have been really tired or something and forgot. Ah well.]
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