2009/10/24 23:07
I was wandering around IAM, and I noticed a couple of times I couldn't access people's pages because I'm not an active member. That means I haven't posted a diary entry for the last month. That's pretty scary. I don't think i've gone that long before.
My boss scared the hell out of me about a month ago. She told me I might have three years left before I graduate. I've already been a graduate student at Georgia Tech for seven years. More recently, she told me one-and-a-half to two years. That's more like it.
I'm not entirely sure what I want to do when I get out.
My girlfriend wants to head to the Philippines for at least one month, maybe two, in early 2011, and spend a little time travelling around SE Asia. I know for a fact I won't be able to afford this. I'm pretty sure I won't be in a position to take two months off school. Dang nabbit! This keeps me awake at nights. I guess it's one of those things where I really have to just quit school and leap into the unknown or something like in a movie.
That's probably not going to happen. This isn't a movie.
None of my erstwhile IAM friends are left on IAM. Scratch that. My "first generation" IAM friends are looooooong gone. My "second generation" IAM friends are recently gone. I'm not sure why I'm still here. While I was wandering around, I kept being surprised by how so many people were getting modded. I don't think I've had a new mod since...at least '04? There's also this age disparity. I feel like I'm stuck between a bunch of eighteen year olds worrying about their parents and first S/Os and menial jobs, and fifty-plus gay guys who're retired and living on boats. Maybe I just don't belong on IAM any more?
