JUNE 19TH, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
As I had mentioned in the previous post, I have started to play poker regularly and with a bit more seriousness. I play at a no-money poker club that meets at a sports bar, and every week the player with the most points gets rewarded with a free buy-in at a nearby casino. This week I was leading till the last night, and at the last night I might have been ursurped by the second position player. I am not sure if that happened yet and am waiting for official results.
I spent most of last night cribbing about this to MAD, and hating the player for all of today. I googled his name and the first link to pop up was from an adoption site. Turns out the player was an adopted kid and is trying to find his birth parents. Now I feel bad that I might have narrowly beaten him to the win (by 1-2 pts out of total of 340+). I almost want him to win and feel like that might provide some relief to him. Not that he needs it. He has won quite a few tournaments. Still, it could be my contribution to his feel good factor however involuntary the gesture might be.
JUNE 17TH, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
[Image from pixxp.com ]
The quarter has ended and brought along the joys of not having to TA for rest of my natural life, YAY!!! It was not that bad a quarter after all, just too much work that was not personally rewarding. The last week was very busy with setting up the final exam, grading them, figuring out grades for the course, dealing with irrate students, etc.
On research front, I got started on a new project that might end up being my PhD thesis, or at the least my next journal paper. Lets see which way it goes. I am very excited about it. We have had a few meetings with our project sponsors and all of them seem to be motivated to get the preliminary results out by August end. This boads well for my plans of holding general exams before the end of summer.
Things have been going pretty well with MAD. We spend most of the evenings together and seem to be enjoying it. She has been preparing coffee and breakfast for me for the last two days, and I have to tell you it is absolutely awesome when you can just jump out of the bed, brush your teeth and there is a hot cup of coffee waiting at the table. Also, waking up to her smile is a perk by itself.
The groom hunt for my sis is in full motion again, and it is a much calmer and through process this time around. I am optimistic about it. A direct result of this is much needed respite from all the yelling and anxiety in the family. Good stuff.
Oh, and I have taken up playing poker atleast 2 nights a week and I have been doing quite well the last couple of weeks.
JUNE 7TH, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
I am going to stop updating the blog posts with tweets. It just looks ass ugly and doesn’t really serve any purpose. The tweets will continue to be updated on the sidebar, just no posts. Also, just wondering who else is on twitter.
JUNE 6TH, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
spent the day cooking at home. Figuring out how to kill the night.
JUNE 3RD, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
Finished next round of edits to the proposal and sent it to QoH. Off to bed, or to watch more “Carrier” on Netflix 
JUNE 2ND, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
11:46 PM and am still in lab working the proposal. Nearly done though. Feels good to be productive and after a quarter of teaching.
JUNE 2ND, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
Completed the first draft of the proposal and sent it to QoH. Lets see what he says. 2+ hrs of meeting ahead. yawn.
JUNE 2ND, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
fuck fuck fuck. just realised one of the data files for the proposal is missing.
JUNE 2ND, 2008
By PSEUDOSANITY
Just found Twhirl and taking it for a whirl 
