Friday, August 27th, 2004

Time	Event
1:31p	Beer: The Revival Hasn't been a beer post for a while here, so I figured this weekend's planned activities should prompt one. I'm planning to visit "The Brewers Coop" after work today and lay in some hops, malt extract and barley. Then I'm gonna get ambitious. I figure I can pick up some hopped malt extract, and put one in the old "Mr. Beer" (2.5 gal), and one in the new "Dr. Beer" (more highly educated 5 gal.) set that Rob got me for my birthday. Which should result in mass quantities. Hopefully, even if the first 5 gal. experiment doesn't turn out, the 2.5 gal. tank should be fairly bulletproof (since I've done it four times before). At least that's the plan. Mmm. Beer. Did a little birdwatching at lunch today, Angela and I hit the bike path for a walk and got to see a redtailed hawk wheel around high above our heads (hoping we'd flush out some mice for its lunch), and then change course and run an interloper out of its hunting territory. Was really neat to hear its cries as it challenged the other hawk. (Comment on this)
9:34p	The Most Deadly Game Job hunting has officially begun...I send off an application for a post-doc at Columbia Univ. next week, which is certain to be but one of many that I end up coughing up as I limp my way to the finish line. I got the last of my letters of reccomendation together today. I say that job hunting is the most dangerous game, considering that one must not only present oneself, but also the person that the employer wants to see. I'd like to think that I'm the candidate that any department would drool heaping gobs of cash just to interview, but that would be the bare remnants of my ego attempting to save me from liver abuse. Looking back at my CV, I seem to have done an incredible amount of stuff. Attached to each accomplishment however is a serious amount of bitter knowledge, and lessons hard learned. Am I the same person who entered grad school? Or am I simply some shadow that wears his skin? (Comment on this)

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