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[pmcd9]

I hope you wind up in Philly because of THIS.

Good Lord!

I I thought this guy was nuts. In case you can't read it, it says "fuck gas prices" on the back of his helmet. This is from 8 years ago near the end of the Bush era when everything had gone to hell in a hat basket and gas prices were at their worst. So I assume this guy's probably dead by now, a greasy spot on the freeway.

At least he has a motor, he can probably top out at 50mph. Your guy is much worse, just peddling along like it's nobody's business.

[theinevitable]

On my last day at my school job, my boss had already left for the day by the time I went home. So I left my key to the office sitting on my desk. Now she's emailing me asking where it is, why I didn't return it to her, and forwarded me an email where the facilities people told her how much it will cost to change all the locks. What?? She says she looked all over the office and it isn't there. Why would someone steal the key to our office (not into the whole building, which requires a keycard). Why would anyone ever want to get into our office who can already get into the building?

Is she trying to get me to pay for the cost of changing the locks?

[theinevitable]

I can't figure out what she thinks is in there that's so valuable. Last time someone lost a key (they lost their keychain) she moved all of the contents of all of her filing cabinets into another room.

[wombat]

You may indeed be dealing with a crazy person, but take this as a lesson that that is not how you should return your key on your last day of work. Because really it isn't.

[jaydub]

I have 3 filing cabinets in my immediate vicinity.  All of them were filled by me at various points in time.  I have no idea what is in them.

[AugustWest]

Tomorrow:Chicken

[theinevitable]

Had confusing interviews at the job in Virginia. I came out kind of... not sure if I want the job.

Today I had my interview in NYC. That one went awesomely. I got to meet two of the leads in the section who seemed great, and two of my potential peers who were super smart and interesting. They want another writing sample and I am really not sure what to send. They also mentioned the salary range and it was higher than I expected. I really want this job.

Tomorrow, Austin (via Skype).

[theinevitable]

Austin interview went OK. It was very stiff and formal. And my wifi gave out and we had to switch to the phone. I was sweating bullets when my computer wouldn't reconnect.

In all of my interviews when they ask if I have any questions, I ask people how they ended up in their current position. I was never really sure why I ask this, other than that I figure it's good to seem interested in people. But at the NYC job I finally got the kind of answers I wanted-- the four people I met all came from different academic fields, talked about totally different things that they like about working in this office, and the two who were my age talked about what they want to try to do next with the skills they're learning there.

At the DC/Virginia interview everyone my age started working there straight out of their undergraduate business program. But of course I'd be starting that career path six years behind the people my age. Yeesh.

[wombat]

You get an impressive amount of stories out of a train commute.

[theinevitable]

yeah, geez dude! My best through worst stories range from "I got really delayed by a bomb" to "I got lost again." You're having adventures over there.

I realized at some point I had lost the best detail of my most extreme getting-lost story, where I got on an express train to the Jersey Shore. Which is that when I got there, I could hear a guy playing acoustic guitar and singing to a crowd in a park next to the platform, and his song was about how everybody remembers where they were on 9/11.

[pmcd9]

You get an impressive amount of stories out of a train commute.

Succinct.

[wombat]

I guess there's more potential for variety on the train. The idiotic things drivers do mostly fall into a limited number of categories.

[wombat]

You know what's also better about the train? You are less likely to get yourself killed in an accident.

[AugustWest]

The reason I drove into work was to give a new dentist a shot.

In my experience, the reverse usually happens.

[theinevitable]

Yeah, driving to work blows. It was really pathetic how much commuting on the Turnpike for a month wrecked me.

The one driving thing I have not figured out: letting people merge. I had never lived someplace where highways were crowded enough that this was an issue. But on the Turnpike there are people trying to merge, I'm in the right hand lane, and the lane to my left is full of people going faster than me/my lane. And of course the merging lane is like 1/2 as long as it should be. Ugh.
I feel like in a perfect world, merging is their problem, right? I should not have to adjust my driving to let them merge if everyone is driving with appropriate distance in front of them. But that never happens.