Just a Personal Update

Things are good.

Personal:
I'm pretty energetic and in a relatively maintainable good mood. In Chicago I felt bipolar with violent emotional swings. I've been feeling well here for the past month or so. Moving to Livermore was an excellent decision - I'm much less rushed and more calm in life as well as bathed constantly in Sun. I'm also nearing my old brown-skin tanness of old. I swear I'm not trying, I use sunscreen and everything - it's just always so nice out.


Eating Paleo also has been fun. I had a burrito the other day as a back-on-grains experiment. It was a fantastic burrito and afterwards I had that food-coma feeling that we all love. Wait! Food-coma? I haven't had one of those since starting this thing. I can eat a huge amount of paleo food and go out hiking immediately (I speak from today's experience) without feeling the least bit tired or weighed down. It also felt pretty cool running around in the hills without my shirt on pretending I was hunting the other hikers.

I'm writing this from a Cafe as an experiment into "cafe culture." I'm about to start working, I promise. About the cafe internet habit I think it would be a great experiment to only use the internet out-of-house. It's such an isolating experience that it's probably good to balance out with an inherently exposing and social location.

Work:
I'm writing. I'm submitting an "Extended Abstract" of my recent work on multiweighted graphs. It's really fun to write things down, formalize them and give an argument as to why they're important. Luckily for me I've actually believed that last part for most of the work that I've done. I'm finding that it's quite challenging to write everything well in a very restrictive space. It forces you to be both extremely precise and often overly-general.

I was asked to give a 30 minute talk to a general (non-networks but still technical) audience. This will be a new experience for me but I'm excited for the challenge.

Future:
Looking for apartments in Chicago