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January 23, 2006
CALI - I am SO here!
Well. Haven't gotten the pictures of Scott's camera, so no pictures yet. But, shortly: Badlands was kickass. Mount Rushmore does not compare to Badlands. Salt Lake City means being accosted by Mormons. And Lake Tahoe is beautiful. Especially when you don't need snow chains because there is no snow on the ground!
Basically, the trip was smooth sailing. All the fears we had about taking I-90 during the winter didn't come true. South Dakota/Wyoming/Utah...all of it...perfect. There was maybe one night of ice which lasted approximately half a mile. Pretty good if you ask me. We drove at a pretty relaxed pace, nothing more than 12 or 13 hrs a day (and only one day of that). So, overall, trip = GOOD.
So now here I am at work. First day and the filesystem/server goes kaput so I can't actually *do* anything. Still haven't found housing yet. Need to do that ASAP. I kind of want my stuff from Pittsburgh still. Excited/nervous/stressed. Kind of still hasn't truly hit me yet.
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January 18, 2006
In the heartland
Apparently, South Dakota is very excited about having free wireless internet! So here I am, blogging!
Short status update:
1. Pittsburgh - Madison = a CRAPTON of tolls. I think I paid over $20 in tolls. Craziness. Snow in Indiana made me very nervous. But by the time we got to Chicago, it was ok.
2. Madison - Wall (SD) = a lot of *flat* driving. Did you kno that in Minnesota...they pull you over for going over EIGHT MILES PER HOUR over the speed limit? EIGHT!!!!! Grrr. My first speeding ticket (really a warning), and I am going EIGHT over? Sheesh.
Next up is the Badlands/Mount Rushmore (hopefully spending half a day there). Then should be able to make it through Wyoming tomorrow. I hope Wyoming isn't boring. Harhar. Should be in Cali by Saturday!
Hopefully I'll be good and do a picture blog later. But that's it for now.
Posted by szujin at 10:52 PM | Comments (2)
January 13, 2006
So, I'm finally leaving Pittsburgh. Today will make it official. As I sit at home on a Friday while everyone else has gone to school, I feel like a complete and utter failure. No matter what people say/do, or how I feel when I am away, when I come back to Pittsburgh...I feel sad. It's not that I was forced to leave, but rather that here lies a part of my life that I had to "cut the losses." Where I had to realize that stopping was a better answer than going on. The part of me that hates to give up is eating my alive.
Pittsburgh and grad school feel like the end of a chapter of my life that I know should be closed but I can't quite manage to close. I look at my friends who are still in grad school, and those that have graduated and I feel slightly envious. Is it really that I don't *want* to get the PhD, or that I *can't*? In the long run, I guess it doesn't really matter. Quite honestly, I'm not even sure I like the field that I am in...so going all the way is really kind of a stupid choice. Hopefully I'll be able to sort it all out soon enough.
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