the career talk this weekend i start another class - at 9:30 a.m. that's dawn without first light yet for this vampire, people. imma start asking everyone to send me postcards of the daylight so i remember what it's like.

it's great timing because i got "the career talk" again today. ahahaha. i met will chang in san francisco in 2001, during my first aaja conf. he was cradling a cardboard box and saying hi to everyone and passing out pens, ahahaha. "they didn't give you anything?" referring to my not having any business cards, ahaha, but then, i'd only started around here a couple months before the conference.

will reminded me why i chose to hibernate all these years, ahahaha - after the conference, i was getting offer calls from everywhere. i mean everywhere, in the continental u.s. i'd just graduated from college. i didn't know what "going to work everyday" means. so i turned them all down coz i didn't know then how to say "hi, i'm just around, not really looking," ahahaha.

learning that that was how things went at such big conferences, i decided that the next time i went would just not be to see the city, but to actually follow through with offers. ahahaha. so i've never been to any conferences since. i should go to the next one... in honolulu. WOOT!!!

oh, don't be fooled - i am going to have to save every cent, even on top of the company contribution. and even then, the conference might not help as much because the job climate's changed.

the thing with finding mentors and colleagues is that there's nothing really elaborate about the after - i mean, the work isn't a big deal. it's the beer after. and i don't like beer. but sake is nice. hehe.

i'll just write again. i have a headache. i need new glasses.  ¶ 9/22/2005 07:56:00 PM