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crankyoldman) wrote2008-09-08 07:21 pm
crankyoldman) wrote2008-09-08 07:21 pm
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Monday, with a vengeance
Alright, I've discovered the design flaw in lockable bathrooms. You can totally lock your keys in. As I discovered at 7 am this morning.
Yeah, let's not do that again.
I'm mostly working on a lab report and prepping myself for IR, which is kind of like a carnival of companies come to recruit people. A job fair of sorts, I suppose. We'll see how handing out resumes goes. I'm going on a strict policy that if they ask for my GPA, I will ask them why they want it. Yes, that may sound, well, arrogant, but I am principled, and really don't think that my extremely hard earned GPA is any worse than someone else's higher one. My dad backs me up on this, and really, I am curious as to why an arbitrary number would cause them to filter me out, when I've had more job experience than most of the kids, and definitely more life experience. Egads, the amount of life experience I managed to stuff into five years is kind of freaky.
Ha, almost went off on a rant there. I'll spare you. I'm just pretty confident in my abilities these days, and just because I can't take tests--which reflect nothing in the real world in my type of field, unless I was say, a pilot--doesn't mean that I should be automatically rejected.
God, I am my father.
For fun things, I'm using a meme instead of a mixtape this month, since muxtape is still down and for the life of me I couldn't think up a decent theme.
List ten songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your ten songs. Then tag ten other people to see what they’re listening to.
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (rock)
I heard it on Queer As Folk and knew I had to have it. Because it's Bowie. And it's fun to sing in the Aero building.
Augustana - Stars and Boulevards (rock, of some kind)
These kids have grown on me.
Fridge - Cut Up Piano and Xylophones (post-rock)
This is seriously gorgeous. You want this one.
Kansas - Point of Know Return (classic rock, maybe a little prog)
I grew up on this stuff. Gotta love the organ.
Madonna - Miles Away (pop/hip-hopish)
I can't help it. I love Madonna.
Joan As Police Woman - I Defy (indie rock)
I've babbled about this before.
Halou - It Will All Make Sense In The Morning (dream pop)
This will probably go on my Cylon FST, whenever I finish it.
Zoe Keating - Walking Man (new classical)
Cello! GOTTA HAVE CELLO.
Hybrid - Sinequanon (breakbeat trance + french rap)
Alright, so I'm kind of into French rap. And Hybrid.
KMFDM - Dogma (industrial)
Mostly have this because I'm a little in love with Nicole Blackman's voice. She did the vocals for the Recoil songs "Breath Control", "Want", and "Chrome" which are sort of my favorites of theirs. This song is fun for when I feel a little annoyed.
~Cendri
Yeah, let's not do that again.
I'm mostly working on a lab report and prepping myself for IR, which is kind of like a carnival of companies come to recruit people. A job fair of sorts, I suppose. We'll see how handing out resumes goes. I'm going on a strict policy that if they ask for my GPA, I will ask them why they want it. Yes, that may sound, well, arrogant, but I am principled, and really don't think that my extremely hard earned GPA is any worse than someone else's higher one. My dad backs me up on this, and really, I am curious as to why an arbitrary number would cause them to filter me out, when I've had more job experience than most of the kids, and definitely more life experience. Egads, the amount of life experience I managed to stuff into five years is kind of freaky.
Ha, almost went off on a rant there. I'll spare you. I'm just pretty confident in my abilities these days, and just because I can't take tests--which reflect nothing in the real world in my type of field, unless I was say, a pilot--doesn't mean that I should be automatically rejected.
God, I am my father.
For fun things, I'm using a meme instead of a mixtape this month, since muxtape is still down and for the life of me I couldn't think up a decent theme.
List ten songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your ten songs. Then tag ten other people to see what they’re listening to.
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (rock)
I heard it on Queer As Folk and knew I had to have it. Because it's Bowie. And it's fun to sing in the Aero building.
Augustana - Stars and Boulevards (rock, of some kind)
These kids have grown on me.
Fridge - Cut Up Piano and Xylophones (post-rock)
This is seriously gorgeous. You want this one.
Kansas - Point of Know Return (classic rock, maybe a little prog)
I grew up on this stuff. Gotta love the organ.
Madonna - Miles Away (pop/hip-hopish)
I can't help it. I love Madonna.
Joan As Police Woman - I Defy (indie rock)
I've babbled about this before.
Halou - It Will All Make Sense In The Morning (dream pop)
This will probably go on my Cylon FST, whenever I finish it.
Zoe Keating - Walking Man (new classical)
Cello! GOTTA HAVE CELLO.
Hybrid - Sinequanon (breakbeat trance + french rap)
Alright, so I'm kind of into French rap. And Hybrid.
KMFDM - Dogma (industrial)
Mostly have this because I'm a little in love with Nicole Blackman's voice. She did the vocals for the Recoil songs "Breath Control", "Want", and "Chrome" which are sort of my favorites of theirs. This song is fun for when I feel a little annoyed.
~Cendri
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and you already knew that you were your father. :)
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Tests aren't really an accurate way to judge performance in school. It seems like lots of academics have ideas about what constitute a better system but... *shrug*. They seem to be left over from the old victorian idea about what school is about.
Besides, I bet your resume floors the competition. ;)
-T. pirate
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Good luck with the similiar to job fair thing and your lab.
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That whole album is freaking awesome, of Hybrid's. It's like the soundtrack to cyber-noir, imo.
~Cendri
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As for Hybrid - I'm definitely going to have to look him up now! Thanks for introducing me to this song...
*is yoinking the meme*