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You know those coinstar machines at the grocery store? And how it’s just a short distance from the do-it-yourself checkout lanes?
I just thought of an idea that is so crazy it might just work. How about instead of using the coinstar machines, you just bring you pot of coins to the checkout lane next time you go shopping? I swear, by my blog’s honor, I will try this out and report my success (or failure). I think I must have at least $20 in change lying around.

So I got a job. Cady says that I should have brought my resume and also should have worn nicer-looking clothes (even though it was an informal interview), but this was my first real job interview. I have no idea if I did that well, but I got the desired result. I was hired. haha I’m such a dork

Anyway–time to stop hunting for jobs and time to start seeing what database work is like in the real world. This should be very interesting, if not fun. Also, I’ll be able to afford things again.

Graduation is over, time to move on. “What is Lee up to nowadays,” you might be asking. Well I’ll tell you.

I have some stuff lined up. I have an interview as a PHP/MySQL developer, which is something I might enjoy. If it weren’t for that horrible ordeal during the summer where the CDC kept me waiting for a job for three weeks and then rejected me, I would stop searching for a job. So, despite facing a possibly great job, I know that I have to keep on looking for jobs or else risk facing another few months not doing anything. NIH and the Dept of Agriculture have sent me letters letting me know that they’ve gotten my application, but nothing past that, and so I have to assume that nothing materialized there.

I have an interview with the Medical College of Georgia on January 9th. Even though I want to go get a job finally, there’s still the possibility of enrollment in August. But still, if I get in but have a good job, maybe I want to be deferred a year. It’s all up in the air at this point.

In conclusion, as you might know by now, I am officially Lee Katz, MS BS AA, but you can just call me “Master Lee.” I know that “master” can be the title of a young boy, but you know, either definition can apply to me.

I was tired of all these fruit flies in the bioinformatics computer lab, and so in a classic-Lee move, I sent an email to all of biology to see if I could get it fixed up.

To whoever has the fruit flies in room 304A in Cherry-Emerson,
The flies are free and are very annoying. They are flowing into the
bioinformatics lab. I’m sorry, but I’ve already killed quite a few that flew
into 306. I hope this didn’t ruin your experiments.

Please secure your flies.

Lee Katz

PS I just killed another one.

Are you kidding? Those flies are all over the whole 3rd floor! And
it has been like this for over two weeks. Is this really coming from
304A? (If so, Somebody was careless). There are at least a dozen of
these in every room from 329 on down. Batsal and Sheyil told Gail,
and she had them inform maintenance, whom in turn, put some fly-paper
in a few rooms.-That is not going to do the trick.

-Tom

PS buzz….buzzzzzzzzz

I don’t understand why neither of you went into 304A and found the source — a large pan of something gooey and drying out (chocolate?), covered with fruit flies — and didn’t just throw it away.

And I don’t understand why the pest control guy didn’t go into that room — it’s not locked.

I hauled the pan to the trash.

That last one was from one of the more respected professors in the biology department. I think I should feel embarrassed or something. But I don’t. And even if I did, I’m leaving by means of graduation. This lets me think that I might want to do something else idiotic before I leave muahahaha

Leave your name and
1. I’ll respond with something I like about you.
2. I’ll tell you what song or movie reminds me of you.
3. I’ll ask you a question.
4. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
5. I’ll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
6. I’ll describe our final fight to the death.
7. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

I totally copied that from Maryanne’s blog so that I could comply with her number 7 and see what she wrote about me. Now that that is done, here is hers:

Maryanne

1. How easygoing you are and also that you can cook a good meal for me if I buy you ingredients.
2. Across the Universe, The Bum Song
3. What would life be like if we actually went through with it and got a three bedroom apartment with James?
4. Sitting at a table, playing games with the retired persons. Suddenly, you are asked a question as a part of the game, and you answer with what you tell me later is false.
   I remember other things about you, but that is the earliest, clearest memory.
5. What.
6. I’m continuing the story that Maryanne wrote:
   

   You won’t even know it’s coming. We’ll be hanging out and you will say something so utterly Leetarted that I will have no choice but to kill you in an attempt to preserve the integrity of the human gene pool. I will attempt to choke you but it isn’t easy, since you’ve been going to the gym. But eventually, of course, I overpower you and throw your head into the ground and dash your brains all over my carpet which will cost me to lose my deposit but I won’t mind because it would have been worth it.

   Suddenly, you realize that you were strangling a fake, muscular neck and that you splattered Muffy’s brains onto your carpet. My disguise for Muffy worked.
   After I see your sorrowed face from killing Muffy, I kick your ass. You end up in the hospital instead of the grave due to my inability to kill.

So it’s coming close to the end. 17.5 years of school… 4 graduation gowns… countless teachers.
It all comes down to this, this graduation. Not like I really care about it, but I’ve come to realize that people acutally want to see me wake up early and walk across a stage to receive a diploma.
So there it is, I bought a graduation gown and will be walking on Dec. 17.
Click for info.

Sat., December 17, 2005
Alexander Memorial Coliseum

Undergraduate ceremony
9:00 a.m. – Noon
Speaker:
Mayor Shirley Franklin,
City of Atlanta

Graduate Ceremony
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Speaker:
Dr. Michael Griffin,
Administrator, NASA

First of all, many thanks to Maryanne who got me started on making my site actually have a design in the first place.

Moving on, has anyone seen those pamphlets that christian fundamentalists hand out that have comics in them? They tell you that learning is evil, homosexuality is a sin, and so on? I was thinking of redesigning my site to parody it somehow. Where are those things?
An lskatz brownie point for whoever sends me some pictures or a hyperlink.

The bad thing about me drinking is that I have to pee a lot.
And also that my friends realize that I’m such a lightweight.