the job search anxiety haiku

oh no! my career!
why are jobs so hard to find?
pain in my belly

two songs...

And all that I want, and all that I need
and all that I've got is scattered like seed.
And all that I knew is moving away from me.
(and all that I know is blowing
like tumbleweed)
- Joanna Newsom

and one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the
aeroplane over the sea but for now we are
young let us lay in the sun and count every
beautiful thing we can see love to be in the arms
of all im keeping here with me
- Neutral Milk Hotel

hmmm mmmmm

Two of us wearing raincoats

Standing so low

In the sun

You and me chasing paper

Getting nowhere

On our way back home

We’re on our way home

We’re on our way home

We’re going home


You and I have memories

Longer than the road that stretches out ahead


I miss Jon.

Wow, what a long day

Today:
9-10 job search, made the big step asking contact about certain job that I was sorta hoping i would get, eventually turned down but was offered a referral to another company! sweet!
10-10:50 learned about global warming. Lots of graphs, pictures, about the global doom that is facing us. Also! To illustrate the famous correlation is not equal to causation argument the guest speaker put up a number of pirates versus global temperature graph. This further strengthens my argument about the mystery that is the growing collective fascination with pirates? Why?!!!
11:00-12:15 learned about the Kozmetzky Global Collaboratory, which is a "collaborative think tank" trying to generate new ways of creating global shared prosperity, particularly generating innovative ways of helping the third world. The speaker was very persuasive, but very VAGUE. It was exciting though. Saving the world is always stimulating.
12:30 - 2:30 looked at people in Tressider specifically people getting drinks out of the coolers. Noticed a really weird thing. People often liked to shake their bottles of beverages when they picked them out. There seems to be no reason for doing this, just a quirk a lot of people seemed to share. The general manager came up to us being suspicious of what were exactly doing staring at the soda coolers for 2 hours. She ended up giving us a ton of information about product placement and marketing. Quite illuminating!
2:30 - 3:00 : synthesized need findings in Tressider
3:00 - 5:15 : Learned about the 2 by 2 matrix method of classifying things. We used this first to classify: Majors The two axes were "difficulty" and "usefullness". Quite controversial findings I would say. I tend to have a more egalitarian view of things, so this discussion sort of disheartened me, especially when people were quite mean about the humanities. But alas, such is life.
We then proceeded to perform the same methods on Cereal! Prof bought in about 10 brands of cereal,that at least was not a very loaded subject to me.
6:00 Had dinner. Was quite awkward. But the buttermilk squash soup was yummy.

7:00 - 8:00 Went to hear Douglas Hofstadter talk! Douglas Hofstadter!!! The hero of my youth. That was exciting. He taught about "Analogical reasoning as basis for cognition". He essentially built up an argument that analogies were the very building blocks of our thinking processes. I'm not sure if I quite agree, or follow, or care, but he was quite a charismatic speaker. I especially enjoyed the animated slides (yes no powerpoint!) and funny anecdotes
8:00- 10:00 did my laundry and searched for more companies to apply to

Dokonjo Daikon

HA-HA! This is awesome. From the BBC News:
the article
This unlikely drama started last summer in the town of Aoi, when residents noticed the radish pushing its way through the asphalt of a pavement.

Impressed by its perseverance, they named it Dokonjo Daikon, or the radish with fighting spirit.

Imagine their dismay then when one morning, they found the radish had been decapitated.

The Japanese public has frequently been touched by the plight of stricken animals. But commentators are at a loss to explain this wave of affection for a mere vegetable.

Inspired by the radish's fight for life, the town council now wants to extract seeds or even DNA from its remains in the hope of producing offspring of similar fortitude.