Well, to begin, I upgraded to WordPress 2.0 a few days ago, and I’ve switched back to the “plain” version of the K2 mod/theme I’m using. I need to get some Photoshop time in so I can get a new image banner and play with the CSS to make the site more… “Tom-like” in appearance. I keep saying I’m gonna do this, but I have not had the time.
Speaking of time, I’ve just come to a realization that I’m at my most creative in the last hour or two before I go to sleep. It’s weird. I’m too tired to form complete sentences most times, but I come up with cool theories and other niftiness. Too bad I also don’t remember half of what I thought up when I wake the next morning, because I never write anything down. That said, most of my best writing is done during this time. Much must be done on my part to read and re-read what I’ve written to check for grammatical and logic errors, but the end result is usually the best I produce… usually.
That leads me to another thing I’ve been toying around with. In the near future I am seriously gonna consider addapting my body to a polyphasic sleep schedule. I’m not interested in it to get more waking hours to “play” with… I’m wondering if I can get more clarity with my thoughts. Just an idea.
Oh yeah, I guess my blog would not be complete without mentioning my job situation. I’m still not sure what the hell is going on, but I may have a job coming my way in the very near future. I can’t name names, but I’ve gotten past two interviews and a background check. Now all that is left is to see whether an opening exists for me. The problem here is, the person who makes that determination is someone I’ve come to fear is not good at following up on tasks… so we’ll see.
Ooh, another thing, I’m back on my search to go to grad school. I keep saying I’ll do this, but I never got around to it during my week of freedom, mainly because I was too engrossed in re-learning Lisp. But, after playing with Lisp, and reading articles on Genetic Programming, as well as some fiction, I think I’m leaning more towards doing research in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. The significance of all this is that I now have an idea of what kind of schools I want to target. Now I just need to get past my fear of rejection and apply to some schools (that poor GPA thing, entirely my fault, kind of makes it harder to go to the schools I want). Meh.
Anyway, I’m outta here, thanks for dealing with my rambling.
-Tom