Silent Walker

smoke_on_water @ 2008-05-01T15:57:00

2008-05-01T19:58:03Z

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2007-08-13T11:39:02Z

THE END

2007-07-26T09:57:24Z

Well, I am done with Harry Potter. For ever and ever, at least as far as we know. JK did make it perfectly clear, but I am not excluding blackmail. It was amazing. The curelest and the best of them yet. Brutal yet merciful.

Of Many Things

2007-07-13T01:39:07Z

Of Job

The job is amazing. The people, the content, the projects… Everything seems to be going well so far, and I am enjoying the days.

Of Commute

It SUCKS. Big time. Two hours plus/minus one more is never quite exciting, so I am taking suggestions for books on tape of entertaining kinds, and do hope to get some. I also think it's only a matter of time until I get a speeding ticket. So far I have been stealthy ;)

Of Hobbies

Mostly geocaching at the moment, sprinkled with SCA and soon, some Renn. Faires, mostly Ohio one.

I am also going to go into heavy sewing mode probably starting this coming week, with two bow cases, one dress, one corset, one male shirt, and whatever strikes my fancy after that.

Of HP5

Naturally, I saw it at midnight on Tuesday. It was beyond anything I could have expected. Some omissions were made, naturally, and some of them kind of irked me a little, such as the absence of Lily, and the fact that not the right person was blamed for the betrayal, and the fact that time was spent on things that never happened as opposed to on things that did…But overall, what can I say? It’s HP, thus, brilliant!

I DID IT!

2007-06-22T15:54:29Z

I am now officially an employee of AC Nielsen! Take that, MBAs, "no jobs in ohio"!

I GOT IT!!!

2007-06-14T00:23:50Z

I got a job, I got a job, I got a job!!!

AC Nielsen, BASES, in Covington, KY, great salary and some gas money too! If nothing else works out within a few days, I am accepting it!!! YEEEHAHHHH!

www.bases.com

Of New Things

2007-06-10T13:53:09Z

It has been about two weeks since I poster here last, and many things have changed. I did graduate and got my MBA as well as have moved to Ohio. It was not an easy trip, with the freak car accident which we escaped by a very little bit. But our apartment is very cozy and cute, and I had a lot of fun decorating it with all my pictures and posters. At the moment, the only thing that is still in disarray is my job but I have been having interviews and it's going quite well, but it would be good to have a certain answer. Apart from that, things are well.

Graduation

2007-05-24T00:00:42Z

The time of doom is upon us! In mere two hours I shall set forth to get my parents from the airport, commencing the four days of chaos, which will include meeting Martha, Alan, saying goodbye to my second family here in New York, friends for life, and many other things. It is sad, terrifying, and somehow seems like the end of an era. Two years are gone, MBA is complete, and my head is still spinning. More musings to come!

He Settled!

2007-05-17T11:30:29Z

The Last Week of Class Ever

2007-04-30T14:21:27Z

This is the first week of the last week of class ever, ever. Somehow this does not seem too real at the moment, especially considering that I have nowhere to go afterwards yet. At the moment, this fact is what occupies my head pretty much all the time, and keeps me constantly terrified. At the end, it is no one but myself who can change this, and at the moment I do not see a way how. The circumstances surrounding the search are restrictive for various reasons, and nothing going on otherwise is making it easier. This is the most stressful month of my entire life so far. The fact that it begins tomorrow does not make it much better. I have good friends to support me, and to help through the hard times, but when it comes to being an international student with sixty days after graduation to find a job or else, I am alone. That does not make me happy. I know I should be optimistic, and full of energy if I am to change my situation but at the moment, I feel truly helpless in the face of reality. Maintaining even a facade of doing well is becoming increasingly difficult. I do sincerely hope that couple years from now I will look back and laugh at my worries. At the moment, it seems my worries are laughing at me. How typical.

Of Daemon - Please Comment!

2007-04-27T13:21:20Z

smoke_on_water @ 2007-04-26T17:00:00

2007-04-26T21:01:44Z

Visual DNA

2007-04-24T10:43:15Z

Of Weird Weather and Horse

2007-04-12T17:03:00Z

Having come back from my second one-day trip to Columbus, I felt a bit dicouraged but also happy about the sheer number of folks still without jobs out there. The previous weekend was nice and quiet, and this one promises to be just the same, the amount of homework is dying down, and there is not much to do but brood, have team meetings and search for the elusive employment. The weather is following my mood and is completely whack, I found half of the trunk of the pussy willow outside our house across the walkway this morning. Storm and wind, rain and snow, all mixed together is exactly how I feel and the weather obeys, mwahahaha. In other news, I am still battling the wills with Casey (no, not that Casey), my horse for horseback riding who is stubborn and extremely strong-willed (not unlike his namesake). I almost dislocated a finger joint yesterday trying to canter consistently. He kept trying to throw me off balance, and in general being a ^))*&*^^%^$&**(. But I prevailed. Of course, I was also covered in horse poo and slobber, and hay at the end. Such is life.

The Chair of Despair

2007-04-04T18:36:54Z

This is my new dish chair of despair. Perfect for slumping in on one's balcony, or sulking in the shadows, while in despair over the fruitless job search. On a slightly better note, I am going for yet another trip to Columbus next week for a job fair, and hopefully this trip goes better than the previous one in terms of me finding desirable employment. If I miraculously get a job by Monday night (unlikely), I will go anyway and spend the day with my dog instead. But as I said, unlikely. In other news, every single other person in my school seems to have a child of some sort. Weird. And all I want to do is go home and slump in my despair chair while watching agile and successful 007 agent on TV. It looks so easy when Bond does it...

Of Break and Not Getting the Job

2007-03-23T20:43:17Z

Well, I did not get the Data Alliance job. A day worth of travel, a return airplane ticket and nothing. I guess I am back at square one. The break is going amazingly well otherwise, it's just I am sick to the core of my being of the endless job search. It has brought me to the brink of a breakdown so many times that it's not even remotely dramatic anymore...I cannot understand why is it that I can help everyone else get a job as a Peer Advisor but I cannot help myself...For now, I am going to take the rest of the break to unwind and to relax. On Monday, I am going to simply die. I do not know what else I can possibly do.

Of Truth!!!

2007-03-13T01:47:20Z

The 5 main stages of any project

Enthusiasm
Disillusionment
Panic
Hunt for the Guilty and Punishment of the innocent
Praise and Honor for the non-participants

New Poem

2007-03-03T02:42:32Z

The Ballad of the West

The sun arose from smoky depths

Of winter’s frozen sky,

I felt the sunshine touch my cheek,

And heard a distant cry

Of bird or beast, unknown to me,

Imprisoned in the hold

Of icy fortress ‘neath the earth

Where dwell the shadows cold.

I urge my mount to take to sky,

And race against the time,

To save the beauty and the life,

To punish evil crime

Committed by the blackest hearts

Which know no hope

And toil in the deepest caves

Below the steepest slopes

Of Misty Mountains that cross

The Land from end to end

And mine is the ear to which

Their slaves the prayers send.

For I am Ranger of the West

And destined for this doom

To fight or perish in the East

Beneath the growing gloom

Of clouds sent by Shadow’s call

Which hide the Sun from view

But she survives to see the fight

Of evil against the few

Of us who still stand strong and hold

Our swords unsheathed and bright

Under the fading rays that shine

From Citadel’s great height.

The final battle will commence

This day we stand and fight,

Men of the North, the South and West,

Our battle cries take flight.

They echo all across the field

And bring our foes dismay

We rush ahead, not paying heed

To shadows that hold sway

Over the sky above our heads

They too, will fade and die

When friend saves friend in country cold

Where the shadows lie.

03/02/2007

Hee Hee - Google Products That Should Exist!

2007-02-26T18:02:44Z

More Google Products

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Does that fit or what!!!

2007-02-22T22:26:50Z

You could work yourself into a panic as you seek the elusive balance between your dreamy imagination and the factual details. If your job involves a creative aspect, it may be difficult to produce results on demand, yet you might not have the time to get lost in your fantasies. Bouncing your ideas around with a friend or associate can be just the right thing to make it all happen in time.

Of Dreams I Wish I Remembered

2007-02-21T13:43:23Z

If only I could, my dreams would probably take the box office. And become cult movies for the generations to come. And that is not an underestimation either...For example, last night was a solid six hours of dreams. But I only remember two instances from all that time. One, is me at a skating rink, of all things, inside this club in Ithaca Commons...For some reason, it was easy to skate this time, unlike my usual experience, and I enjoyed the experience, and yet there was something else to it. But of course, I do not recall, all I remember is me insisting that I am a member of the club. Silly, I know. But wait for the second instance. This time, I am in a room with people, doing something that aparently deserved some gratitude. So, one of the guys in the room give me a strangely curved sword as a thank you. I recall the intricate design on the sheath, and the sword itself is long, but also very curved, almost a sickle and very comfortable to hold in my hand. I remember thinking that it would be very useful for something that I was supposed to do after leaving the room. In short, exciting life, huh...I just realized that two years is exactly the time needed to get used to a certain pattern of life. It just hit me that this is the last time I am ever going to be in class...A weird feeling.

So Far So Good

2007-02-12T17:55:26Z

So this week is officially a good week. After this week, hell breaks loose, I promptly realize I still have no job, and that I need to get working on those pesky term projects that will require a heck a lot of time and effort, and so on and so forth. This week, I am blissfully anticipating the best weekend ever in a long, long time, and doing my homework for zillion years ahead (which is why in class I feel like we're studying something I vaguely remember from three weeks ago)... But oh well, nothing particularly important to report on the weekend, except the fact that the Arkham Terror game freaking ROCKS and takes forever to play, which kinda reminded me of the Cthulhu roleplaying game, since the premise is essentially the same, but the game itself is the DM, eliminating any need for tedious preparation and character creation. We played at Scott's house, and there were a total of six players, meaning that there was lots of room for interaction, being lost in time and space, and taking on Yig, the punk child of the Cthulhu family which nevertheless succeeded in killing us all at the end. Oh, well, such is life. We spent the entire time eating crackers and drinking Coke Zero... I am rethinking wearing anything that has an identifiable waist...

For an ending to this post, I will post one of my early poems, just because :):

Glass Shards

Another farewell, another rose
Crumpled besides a broken vase,
Reflected in a pool of tears.
Whose face it is that gazes back at me?
Familiar eyes, albeit rimmed in scarlet,
Their vivid green highlighted even more.
Straight nose, right brow arched
Inquisitively high, lips trembling.

Help Needed! (And update on life :))

2007-02-05T18:01:15Z

Well, the school has begun, not in such a bad manner as I expected it too, my main occupations as of now are classes, work, studying, job searching, chores, skiing, and hanging out with Casey and friends. Not a huge amount of variety, but a bit of routine does wonders for a worrisome mind such as mine. Nevertheless, excitement abounds, such as our yesterday skiing trip, during which I assisted Abbie with her first adventures in skiing, and Casey and Davian contemplated the slopes. A wonderful day finished with some lemon bars and chili (yum, yum). Today my Valentine's Day present from Casey is supposed to be delivered, YAY, and I am allowed to open it early (for the reason, see his Yahoo 360 page :)), so excitement is high, I am expecting it to be something really really cool.

In a couple weeks, Corey is coming to visit, and the weekend is very tightly packed with activity, starting with the Cruxshadows concert on Thursday (OMG, amazement second only to Nightwish!), and then skiing, Seven Deadly Sins, and geocaching. Which also means I will spend the days before doing a heck a lot of homework ahead.

The job search arena is still uncertain, I am persisting in trying to reach out to people, and companies, as well as my former bosses, and current friends, but any help from anyone is deeply appreciated. I am looking for an interesting marketing/advertising job in Columbus, OH, and will be eternally grateful for any help, contacts, or any other form of assistance or advice.

So far so good. I am also reading a lot of good literature lately, which is always nice.

P.S.

smoke_on_water @ 2007-01-21T22:01:00

2007-01-22T03:04:26Z

A week ago, I had purple hair, and was at the biggest SCA event I had attended todate. Now I have boring brown hair, another rejection from a job because I am from another country, suffering self-confidence due to major tumbling down the slope at Greek Peak, brand new classes, and shiny classmates with jobs. Excellent. One semester to go, fight to the death, lots of drama, and lots of snow, finally!

The last weekend of my break went well, I managed to see the Pan's Labyrinth finally, and it was as realistic as it was fantastic. Very brutal, very graphic, as good as it was sad, and the end could be taken either way. I was on the verge of tears but the rest of that day was amazing, so it took the sting somewhat out of the movie.

Well, here it goes. A whole lot of nothing.

Of Purple Hair, SCA, and Warcrack!

2007-01-11T23:48:53Z

After our memorable trip to Rochester for the purpose of my helmet, and some spectacular geocaches (one of which we did not get because the entrance to where it was turned into a waterfall because of the freezing rain), we are back in Cortland, and I only have a week and some three days of break. Grrrrrr.....But the return of school also hopefully means more job news etc. This weekend, Alan is coming to visit us, and we're going to the Twelfth Night SCA event, which Alan is extremely excited about. This week I spent most of my time sewing clothes, and have recently been converted to a World of Warcraft addict, sigh, it's been nice knowing everybody. I do hope to emerge in time for school in a week or so. Send love and chocolate. ;)

And yes, my hair is very purple. Too bad I need to re-dye it before coming back to Sage-Land.