She came over with a bad back and couldn’t get around so well. We were trying to help her, but she just can’t touch people. She hates touching people.
So, instead of us feeling bad for her, we just had to laugh. I mean, here’s this girl who is basically collapsing but cannot touch a helping hand.
Archive for June, 2006
It is in my experience that people say shitty things when they are in a bad mood, and that it is best to be rather unreactive when you recognize the scenario unfolding.
It’s not you, it’s them.
When I was little, my mom made sure my hair parted on the left side because I had a natural part there.
I have noticed recently that my hair tends to go towards the left side, negating that fact. I wonder if she wanted me to have a part on the left side for an obscure reason.
I got a present for someone last week. And it’s so perfect. The cost totally didn’t matter. Oh man.
I think I unofficially got accepted to the Ph.D. program at GA Tech in record time. Even though I was interviewing for a fantastic job at Qiagen, I thought I should go ahead and apply to the bioinformatics (binf) degree.
On two Tuesdays ago, I caught up with the binf director, and, after some private discussion with a couple of people, he came out to tell me that I should apply and send in recommendations within two days. It’s amazing that I got it done by Friday, but somehow my recommendors found time for me. This last Tuesday, I was given the word that I recommended to the program by the binf committee, and so I have been unofficially accepted. Accepted in one week, wow.
I understand that they were looking for funding for me (since they would have to pay for my research and pay me a stipend), and so I got back to a College of Computing professor to see if he had any cool projects. He hasn’t gotten back to me yet, and he wasn’t in his office, but I think he’ll get back to me when he returns to campus next week. I can’t be officially accepted without funding.
As for Qiagen…
It’s not a Ph.D., but it would be fabulous experience. I would be getting the same sort of experience at GA Tech, but I’d get a degree in the process. If I actually got an offer for the job, it would be very difficult to decide which path to go. Real world experience is a definite plus, but it doesn’t speed up my degree any faster.
After I get a Ph.D. degree, you guys can stop calling me Master Katz and go directly to Dr. Katz. Or Master Katz will still be acceptable. *shrugs*
How often is too much for me to push anyone to play badminton? Or to walk around the park? I wish I did these things more often. Maryanne just asked me to play badminton and it made me super happy.
By the way, I’ve asked Rebecca to post more often. She usually has some good stories.
Even though each post displays the author, I’ve gone ahead and coded her posts with blue font and mine with green font. Enjoy!
John stalls for time…
Lee: have you left yet?
John: Lee!
Sent at 1:01 PM on Monday
Lee: is that a no?
John: no what?
Lee: have you left yet?
John: twat! twat!
Lee: is THAT a no?
John: Twat you want nigs?
Lee: have you left yet…
So I’m shopping in Publix- and I’m pushing my cart around- “parking” it on the side of the isle so as to not block anyone’s way while I’m searching for certain items . . . and I forgot that I needed pita bread- so I push my cart to the other side of the store- smiling at people, strolling down the isles. . . and as I toss the pita bread into the cart, I realized ‘this isn’t my cart!”. The clue . . . . . . the cart was stacked full of Depends adult diapers.
James finally got a job. A real flippin job. I don’t really know what it is, but he is getting a real salary, and it’s in the metro area.
Anyway, that’s only some background for the main point of this entry. John’s summer villa is going on the market, and it was already offered to his friends (such as me and James) for cheap. If I make it into this PhD program that I am applying to, then I will need a cheap place to stay. Of course, there is another option that might be investigated…
By the way, whenever I’m talking about the music genome project, you can know it’s for realz. Check out these short articles I found on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project
http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml
I told James that I liked the Wiggle Room commercial, and he pulled the gay card on me. As soon as I find the commercial on youtube.com or somewhere else, I’m going to post it for your review. So you can side with me.
Apparently Yale wants me to distribute money. This is an email I got last week from someone over there:
Lee, please email giving permission to Andy Hxxx for use of bone account, the charged amount is – $1464.24 ………send permission to:
xxxx.xxxxxx@yale.eduthanks, d
So, if you are at Yale and need money, apparently I have an account there. Please empty it and give it to me. And then I will give you a finder’s fee.
update
This is Lee Katz at Yale. I’m awesome.
Cosmo is my favorite cartoon character.
I am so turned off from those Adam Sandler commercials. It’s getting so old.
I bet the movie sucks so much.
It looks like I’m the godfather of not one, but two dogs now. Sure, I appointed myself with no authorization from either owner but I am helping with the care of both, which gives me the right. Say hello to my two godchildren:
Rufus
Muffy
By the way, there are loads of single parent jokes that I am trying to hold in for John, but I think I’m just going to spread them out instead of saying them all at once.