Month: January 2005

Not Keeping Up

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I started the next class for my MBA last week: statistics. Wonderfully enjoyable. I wouldn’t be doing it if my company didn’t pay for 90% of it.

What should I be doing instead? Something else. I’m in need of a calling. Sometimes, however, I’m torn between the thought of a “calling” and the thought of “having enough money to sustain myself.” People around me everywhere are either finding their calling or buying property.

And here I am. Hi. I’m in a crappy apartment in which I pour money month after month and working at an uninteresting job that makes use of none of my skills.

I don’t want to go back to teaching, at least not in a school. I would like to run an organization like the one where I used to work. Maybe that’s my calling. I don’t see how that would be a possibility.

The Structure of Romantic and Sexual Relations at Jefferson High School

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Some interview-research was done in a high school and relationships (romantic and sexual) over eighteen months were mapped out. The researchers went in with one hypothesis and came out with an interesting discovery. Here’s the map and here’s the story.

“We went into this study believing we would find a core model, with a small group of people who are sexually active,” Moody said. “We were surprised to find a very different kind of network…”

The most striking feature of the network was a single component that connected 52 percent (288) of the romantically involved students at Jefferson. This means student A had relations with student B, who had relations with student C and so on, connecting all 288 of these students.

Second Day in a Row

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I stayed home sick from work again today. I would like to say that I used the time to get a lot of stuff done, to look for possible new jobs, to look for a new place to live, and to study for the LSAT, but it seemed that my body wanted to do not much more than sleep. So sleep I did.

I got a delivery from my mother, who has been living in California for several years. There is no place that delivers groceries around here, like I mentioned before, and obviously no one around here would go shopping for me. My mom had a restaurant deliver me some soup, chili, a sandwiches, soda… Everything lasted the two days I stayed home. I feel much better now and I’ll be heading back to work tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who asked how I was doing.

Sorry about the site being down the last few days; I had some behind-the-scenes changes to make and I wasn’t sure when I’d get to it.

Ugh

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How is it that I have a cold again after just getting over one a few days ago? Why am I completely clogged and unable to sleep?

Snow Problem

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I have to dig my car out of about 18 inches of snow that the snowplow placed in the way. I don’t have a shovel. Let’s see how I solve this one.

Weather Report

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… BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING FOR NORTHERN NEW JERSEY THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 12 TO 18 INCHES ALONG WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WITH VISIBILITIES OF ONE-QUARTER MILE OR LESS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING.

6 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS THE REGION AS OF 9 PM SATURDAY. ADDITIONAL SNOW IS POSSIBLE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS RESULTING IN TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 12 TO 18 INCHES BY THE TIME PRECIPITATION ENDS ABOUT MIDDAY SUNDAY.

Website Changes

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You might have noticed some changes around here. First of all, I changed the color scheme a bit. Secondly, I added a program that posts links that I find and tag through del.icio.us every day. And lastly, I changed the name of the website from Aaafter Effect to Well, There It Is. which was the old tagline anyway. Feel free to change your links (if you also have a website and if you link to me from that website) at your leisure.

Ah, another small change. I added links to other weblogs at the bottom of the sidebar, but it’s powered by BlogLines. That means that only sites that I can read through that website (that is, websites that offer an RSS feed) are listed…