To:ziskin@alum
bcc:shong
Subject: more!
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dear fatty,

     it's me again.  i didn't say everything i wanted to in my last
letter, believe it or not :) and i realized we may not get to talk
again 'til next monday (hope my cauliears don't fade away from
neglect!) but it's probably a good thing 'cuz i'm afraid your phone
bills are going to be horrendous, and i need to make sure that i
maintain this thing - whatchamacallit - "tendonitis"? - anyway.

my resume looks good & is near completion - only thing is i'm not
entirely sure that it properly describes what i want my previous jobs
to have been :).  i think i'll send it to my brother & jon to see what
they think of the job descriptions from a computer geek point of view.
part of the problem is, i don't ever think about my jobs, esp. not in
a good-for-talking-about / look-how-cool-i-am (it is comp. sci., after
all :) kind of way, & besides i have an awful memory, so I'll
definitely have to go to the library & look up what all my past work
has entailed before i attempt to talk about it more comprehensively
than in a prepared one-liner.  i think i'll start doing that tonight.

i've done a cursory examination of a bunch of companies, and have a
pile of 'em that warrant further looking-into.  A few that interested
me, unfortunately, were not in the LA area, but at least i got ideas
from why i was interested in them.  i think the 10 or so i've found in
the area will keep me plenty busy researching them, & i'm sure i'll
keep finding more & more... i'm actually looking forward to getting
into hard-core researching of companies, which i'll do after i get
back from the weekend.

Ah.  i just had to pee ; been drinking orange juice all day.  ah.  &
today i stumbled upon the OME -- just the quiet, empty, desks &
computers place i was looking for.  funny how there's still so many
places i've never been at mit, even after 5 years!

it's been raining really hard, but i'm going to go home for dinner
soon.  I'm sad that i missed yoga & aikido & swimming & sculling
today, but maybe i can bike (or even lift weights! :) in the weight
room before i go to massage & get massaged - i told you about
"California massage by Joe" or "massage by California Joe" - i forget
how he advertises it - right?  i think he's even going to pay me (not
much - $10?) to be a "practice body" & help him work on this "new
age-y" guy, and maybe possibly i'll learn something from him, though i
don't particularly care for his techniques.  that'll be 8:45 - 11p, up
by porter sq. so i'll prob. be home ~11:30.  I'll do a little
organizing of all the papers / info i have, but actually, i hope to
get in bed earlier tonight (can you believe it -- i slept an entire 8
hours last night, & am more tired now than when i was getting 5 or 6
-- maybe it's built up tiredness finally catching up, or maybe it's
cuz my period started today -- finally :) it's a good sign, means
things are going the proper way again :-) so i can really finalize my
resume tomorrow & submit it by 5 pm to the MIT & SWE resume books --
massive career fair here 9/30-10/1, so companies will look at 'em
before then.  I think i'll be able to take a good first shot at a
real, comprehensive cover letter tomorrow also, before I go do another
$10 experiment @ 5:30.  But unfortunately, I'll have to miss aikido
'cuz we're leaving for NH ~ 6:30 pm.  hmm.  so maybe i should pack
tonight too.  nah, i'll leave that for tomorrow... in honor of you.
:->

hope that wasn't too boring for you to read, it was helpful for me!

Thank you thank you thank you for so so so much much much

i miss you achingly & i wish i could tell you just how much... but i'm
afraid if i made you feel one bit the way i do you wouldn't be able
to take it, not being as tough as me, so there
