I can't stop grinning like an idiot

[ultranos]

Well, my 36_stratagems fic is officially overdue, which is kind of embarrassing since it's my own damn ficathon. However, I do, in fact, have a good excuse.

That is, if "interviewing with and ultimately getting hired by the MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Neurobiology Group as a technical assistant" is a valid excuse. :)

I swear to god, I can't escape this place. Granted, I'm not trying very hard.

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[abyssinia]

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!
*is proud of and happy for you*

Even if part of me was hoping you'd land yourself in Colorado. (but now you have job and maybe can afford to come visit sometime! Jetblue and Southwest both have reasonably-priced, relatively pleasant, nonstop flights...)

YAY FOR AWESOMENESS!

Totally a valid excuse :)

[ultranos]

HEEEE!

Colorado might have been cool, but I do love Boston and New England so very much. And I get to make little devices that go into brains! SO AWESOME.

(I think I'd like to visit sometime. I've never been west of the Mississippi, which I should fix, at some point. And it's probably either Colorado, California, or Seattle, Washington if I want to go some place out west, since those are the areas where I know people.)

STILL STUPIDLY EXCITED.

I thought it was a valid excuse. :D

[pepper]

WOOHOO, well done you!

(I have no such good excuse; I just suck.)

[ultranos]

:D

(Well, my excuse before was "halp, got eaten by video games", so, you know. :P )

[abyssinia]

*nods* Boston is indeed a very cool city, and it's one you're comfortable in.

And I get to make little devices that go into brains! SO AWESOME.

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Excuse me, I spent too much time brainstorming with you last year to not know where that leads.

(You totally need to visit - if nothing else, to teach me to play video games :P and you can seriously find cheap flights if you're flexible and we have a guest room with a bed so it wouldn't be that expensive of a trip and, and, and...*gives you puppy dog eyes*)

YAY EXCITED! When do you start?

[holdouttrout]

TOTES VALID! :-D

I am ALMOST DONE. Abyssis didn't tell me not to bother, so I am moving FULL STEAM AHEAD. ;-D

[abyssinia]

Wait, what did I do? Was I betaing a 36_strategems fic? I thought it was porn battle....

*is confused*

[ultranos]

WHOO.

And WHOO, FULL STEAM AHEAD. THERE ARE ZERO FAILURE MODES.

(oh god, I just got mine back bleeding. Yaaay.)

[holdouttrout]

Yeah, that was 36_stratagems... with bonus porn! Does that change anything?

[abyssinia]

Nope. But it does explain why it isn't formatted like a comment fic and has all that high-brow philosophical-sounding stuff in the intro.

[holdouttrout]

Ah hah hah hah hah! :-)

[holdouttrout]

MASOCHISTS THE LOT OF US!

[ultranos]

Well, what ELSE would we be? What were you expecting? :P

[pepper]

*sporfles*

Oh, I'm looking forward to this fic, now, whatever it is.

[holdouttrout]

Well... this conversation is making it sound like crackfic, when it's really darkfic.

My brain is distuuuurbing.

[holdouttrout]

*checks files*

Nope, this is pretty much what I expected. We are writers after all. :-D

[ultranos]

There is something to be said for comfort. I don't yet like the idea of getting too settled, but at the moment, it's a little less upheaval. And I'm...happy. It's a weird feeling.

Excuse me, I spent too much time brainstorming with you last year to not know where that leads.

*tries to look innocent*
I deny everything.

(I do need to visit! Once I start gaining vacation days [because other than Christmas, lord knows what else I'll do with the silly things])

I start Monday! (eeep!)

[ultranos]

I still want to know how you ended up writing darkfic while I ended up writing romantic comedy. I reaaaally don't understand that one.

[ultranos]

Oh good. Didn't want to think your expectations weren't being fulfilled.

[abyssinia]

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*checks window for flying pigs*

[abyssinia]

There definitely is. After college I very carefully chose to go far away, because I needed to let go, and there's definitely a lot of drawbacks to going away from your comfort zone. And happy? Happy is very, very, very good.

Deny all you want, I know better.

(*waits patiently for your vacation days*)

eep! And YAY!

[holdouttrout]

Maybe our muses got switched.

[ultranos]

I DON'T KNOW. I AM VERY CONFUSED.

[ultranos]

Well, they'd better get unswitched! I've got things to write!

[ultranos]

Yeah, I don't need to let go, not right now. For the first time, I'm possibly completely comfortable and happy and content. Or at least, have the possibility to be. It's...kinda nice.

*deny deny deny* Crap, that's not working, is it?

(yaay, vacation days)

I KNOW. New Boss was like "when do you want to start?"
Me: "Uh, I don't actually have a preference."
Him: "How about Monday?"
Me: "Um, okay."

[abyssinia]

*nods* I think it's also a function of us going to undergraduate institutions with some fundamentally different operating parameters (what with mine being tiny and undergraduate only). I worried that if I stayed, I'd become one of those creepy alumni who hung around pretending they still belonged there, and I really needed to break free of some things. There are ways it worked out well, and ways it didn't, and that doesn't mean my choice is right for anyone else.

And, dude, comfortable and happy and content means A LOT.

start dates are good :)

[holdouttrout]

I dunno... I kinda like your muse. Maybe I'll keep it.

[ultranos]

Re: alumni hanging around

I have no idea what you're talking about. :) (I say this as I'm hanging out in a student group's office.)

(Actually, there's a whole subculture of MIT where it's the norm to have a fairly large degree of alumni involvement. But the East Side of MIT is, possibly, A Bit Different.)

[ultranos]

Noooooooo!

:P

[abyssinia]

:P

Ah, but I think in MIT's case it's much less creepy. You have a graduate school and various labs which hire people, making there be a lot more valid reasons for alumni to hang around. Whereas a tiny almost-entirely-residential college with only undergrad students and professors....it just gets to be creepy. Every year there were always a couple alums who'd keep stopping by, and it was always a little sad. Occasional alumni involvement is one thing (stopping by for certain events, especially while you still know people, or alumni weekend) but just hanging out in your old dorm on a Thursday night....creepy.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

it's a VERY good excuse.

congratulations!

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

WHOO HOOO!!!

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a good excuse. :)

Thank you!

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

:D

[deire.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

wheeee! Hurrah!! =D

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

WOO! That's so awesome!

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

:D

Thanks! I'm super-excited.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

IT IS! I'm so excited! IT'S SO COOL.

[annienau08.livejournal.com]

OMG CONGRATULATIONS!!! That is so beyond cool!

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm crazy-excited.