Ah how I remember the "good ole days" of our little spot in the blog-o-sphere. While I can't imagine anyone still reading this (at least that I don't regularly speak to on twitter) -- if anyone knows if there are other little communities that have forked off that are still active I'd like to know about them.
Anyways just a quick update on me and my life:
* I have been dating a guy named Mike for the past month or so. I'm a pretty busy guy so things are slow, but I like him a lot. He has a great smile, a great personality, and we have enough similarities on the important stuff to feel comfortable and dissimilarity on silly stuff to keep conversation interesting. I don't really know where this will go because I'm so used to my little comfortable single life that I don't know how to go from A -> B... I'm just winging it and we'll see how it goes.
* Work is going really well right now. We're working on a really cool project that has lots of engineering challenges and intelligent systems analytic challenges. Has to do with determining if two things are the same with varying degrees of uncertainty and various pieces of evidence. It's a well studied problem, but a hard problem. So we have lots of interesting little geeky things to do.
* School is going well too but just slow. I'm in the PhD program but my research is going so slow. I have no idea when I'll actually finish the degree...definitely years.
* My mom is ok. She became part owner in this kinda start up company and ...things aren't really going well. Not her fault but its stressful for her, which means I get lots of tearful upset phone calls...which makes it stressful for me too :p
* My roommate is working out really well. He's a chemistry teacher at a local private school. He's from a small town in east TN. He's very friendly and we get along really well. There's something about the accent and cadence of people from east TN where the mountains are. I think they live a different life up there. A little slower than us city folk :p
Overall life is pretty good. I'm pretty happy and excited for the future. I'm very fortunate I fell to have been surrounded by just the right people (friends, colleagues, etc.) to have been able to realize the things of which I am capable. Hopefully the next 5 years will be as productive and fulfilling as the last.
See you guys next time.
Steve
Happy Thanksgiving!
1 year ago
5 comments:
*pokes head in for a moment*
Hai there!!
*hugs*
:)
Cheers. :-)
And I'm "bad at twitter." I just don't have the time and energy to scroll through ~200 posts every few hours. :-/
Still here, glad things are (mostly) working out.
PhDs are supposed to take years. If they were easy, everyone would get one :P
Hi there, Steve
I'm still here, still reading (at least when Blogger Dashboard tells me something has been posted) and still commenting now and then.
Thanks for the update - it's good to know things are (mostly) going so well for you. Best of luck with Mike!
Take care
Mark
Admittedly, i don't spend much time in the blog world anymore. But rest assured, the people who i consider to be friends (you included) are in my thoughts rather frequently. All of you were such a large part of my life for the couple years i was really active in the whole blogging thing, that it'd be impossible to forget you. I often wonder who, besides you and Gauss Jordan, still read my blog or even know it exists. But i still pop in from time to time to make a post or lurk... ;-)
As for getting from A to B with your man, just go slow and things will progress naturally. I was with my man for more than a year before we discussed him moving in with me. s you know, he did move in and it scared the shit out of me. We've been under the same roof for nearly a year now and i'm still not completely used to it. The bachelor in me refuses to let go of independence and total freedom. Domestication isn't in the cards for me i guess. But it is nice to have someone to share life with, despite the incredible amount of work that goes into maintaining a healthy, viable relationship.
OK, i guess this comment has turned into a mini post. We deffo need to catch up sometime! Until then, take care!
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