I thought that my two-letter name would only generate boring results on the Cyborg Name Decoder that Jessica linked to, but I was spectacularly wrong. Check this shit out:


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I was going to say that this thing reminded me a whole lot of a similar item I saw on The Brunching Shuttlecocks back when we fashioned internets out of mud and sticks, but a look at the Brunching home page reveals this decoder to be the work of the very same Lore Fitzgerald Sjöberg responsible for much of that site's content. How nostalgic!

Weird quiz thing

With creepy, dubious results!

JC took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Intense, vital, and animated, taking a delight in ..." Click here to read the rest of the results.

You just click on a bunch of color boxes. Seriously, it takes more time to read the results than to take the test.

It is extra hard to motivate myself to do homework now. I mean, I sort of thought that I had developed more discipline recently, but it definitely does not apply to school. I'm happy to work on Japanese, but when I try to start writing a syntax paper or something for field methods class, my brain is of the opinion that that noise should be fucked, and I don't disagree.

Job progress

I've written a resume (which I'll probably post soon to get suggestions and edits) and applied for a few jobs. One that seems interesting is this one at anime publisher ADV Films. I mean, I'm not as much of an anime geek as I am an other-things geek, but I'd love a career in the nerdly arts, and anime is very close to video games as a fan activity, and that job sounds like a neat thing to do. Plus, if my Japanese got good enough, I'd be in a good position to move to this job.

So how much do you guys think I'd be able to get doing either of those? Because I have no idea.

Soft launch

Exciting new development! I started a game blog! This one is my personal blog now.

Content forthcoming, following grading.

Okay, here's the thing. This is a little bit harder because I know I've got at least one Rice person reading this thing, but I trust them.

I'm leaving. Ideally, I will finish this semester and be done with linguistics. I am working on finding new employment, browsing the job sites and whatnot.

While I have not felt right here for a long time, I have finally arrived at the conclusion that there is no reason for me to continue to push myself through graduate school toward the goal of something that I won't like, won't be good at, and won't benefit from. I can make similar compensation doing many other things, most of which are much less stressful than linguistics. Really, a career in linguistics is only worth doing if you love linguistics, and I don't at all. So I'm showing some sack, and moving on. I don't know how to leave, though. I've never dropped out before. And there may be this conference in Paris-- if we get accepted and I have to go to France and present a talk after having quit the program, that will be the very height of awkwardness.

I also have the issue of figuring out what to do, but I'm feeling semi-optimistic about that. Despite not feeling like it in my current environment, I am a damned smart dude, and capable, and highly educated. Plus I smell good and I am amusing.

Okay, so that's that. We all knew it was coming. I just have to, you know, do all of it now. That and tell my parents, which is going to be interesting.

Big things are building up, duders.

Big, vague, cool things.

This is my year.