I got a contract job at IBM. I'll be on a team of editors working on their developerWorks site. I'm excited about it, I'm sure I'll be learning a lot. I start next week.
In other news, my 15th high school reunion is coming up. I haven't been in touch with anyone from my high school at all, pretty much since graduation. That's mostly because I expect that a lot of these people probably still think of me as a doughy, spoiled, somewhat judgmental prude. And sure, I've probably just been mostly paranoid about it anyway, but it hasn't been worth it to me to find out. To the extent that this opinion of me was based on anything real, I would feel embarrassed to be around these people, and to the extent that it wasn't, I would feel indignant. Either way, it's meant no class reunions for me, at least up to now. But when I look at myself and how much I've changed since high school, and realize that everyone I knew back then could very well have changed as much, that does make me kind of curious. I can't go anyway because the timing is bad with the new job, but I do have the chance to get in touch with some old classmates, so I am. If I don't even give them a chance, I'm the one who's being unfair.
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dbrycegh- May 16th, 2005
2005-05-16 05:05 pm (UTC)
It sounds like you've changed a lot since high school then. You definitely don't seem like the kind of person to be doughy, spoiled or a judmental prude.
2005-05-16 06:08 pm (UTC)
And thank you for the vote of confidence. I think it's an unfair exaggeration of my teenage self, but I also think there's a grain of truth in it. But I was very self-conscious, like most teenagers, and so I believed that people saw me that way, even when they gave me no real reason to. I guess I still have some residual insecurities there, and I still judge my old self kind of harshly. With most of my class, I actually had a kind of benign acquaintance, I guess.
2005-05-17 06:11 pm (UTC)
2005-05-17 08:39 pm (UTC)
My 10th college reunion is this summer, but even though I'm still a (grad) student at the same school I went to for undergrad and thus live about four blocks away from the main reunion site, I don't think I'll go...I think if I didn't have to pay for the festivities I'd be more inclined to. :P
good luck with IBM =)
2005-05-18 05:54 pm (UTC)
I wish you and your family good tidings =)
~Sas~
Re: good luck with IBM =)
2005-05-28 10:44 pm (UTC)
I am really liking it so far, and it certainly does seem stable enough.
High School Re Onions
2005-06-08 09:20 pm (UTC)
I got remembered by people I didn't recognize, and had to bluff it, and recognized people who clearly had no idea who I was - "Hey, Xavier! Yeah, you don't remember me! Me and Elizabeth sat right behind you in AP bio! The whole year. We did experiments together. Never mind."
Xavier could have at least tried to bluff me. :)