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May 21, 2003

Nothing left to say. And all I've left to do is run away from you. And she led me on, down with secrets I can't keep. Close your eyes and sleep. Don't wait up for me. Hush now, don't you speak to me. Wrapped my hurt in you, and took my shelter in that pain. The opiate of blame is your broken heart, your heart. So now I'm all by myself, as I've always felt. I'll betray my tears to anyone caught in our ruse of fools. One last kiss for me... yeah, one last kiss good night. Didn't want to lose you once again, didn't want to be your friend. Fulfilled a promise made of tin, and crawled back to you. I'm all by myself, as I've always felt. I'll betray myself to anyone lost. Anyone but you. So let the sadness come again. On that you can depend on me, yeah. Until the bitter, bitter end of the world... yeah, when god sleeps in bliss. And I'm all by myself, as I've always felt. And I'll betray myself to anyone.

Well, in the first few days at work I�ve met quite a few things I had expected, but also some things I was, rather pleasantly, surprised by. Of course there were the standard issue problems with getting a phone, computer, accounts, e-mail (e-mail is still ongoing) but for the most part solutions are coming. What I was impressed by is how quickly I�ve come to know most of the people I�m working with, as they�ve all been quick to extend their hands. This all might be due, at least in part, to my desk location. This is where Gema, the department secretary of sorts, used to sit, and there is a lot of foot traffic there. Combined with the open walls of the cube, people just see you more than when you are in a corner with the highest walls in the area. I myself like this better, being a familiar face is a good thing as far as I�m concerned.

Also, the projects I�ll be working on (I have two so far, with more to come) are really interesting. Plus I�ve been helping the others conduct tests in the lab, and I�ve used more signal processing and electrical engineering knowledge in the last two days than I did in the last two summers. I even got to frankenstein a demo device today adding various wires hanging out of it to make points to hook lab equipment up to which was fun. As before I�m not really going to go into detail concerning my projects, but I assure you I think there are interesting, so naturally they must be.

I admit I was somewhat shocked to see I had done as well as I had on my ece310 final. I came out of that test somewhere between morbid curiosity and apathy due to it all being over. But, apparently what I did write for the ones I wasn�t sure of went pretty far, and I ended up with an A- in the class. So, still waiting to hear back about my course grade for ece340. This is the class in which the TA seems to have broken the grade book, first entering exam grades, next hiding them, then falling out of communication entirely for the last four days. If I had to guess I�d say I got a B+ though, believe me I�m not losing sleep.

So I lied, I didn�t go to the beach yesterday, it was a bit overcast and I was earnestly tired at the end of the day. Current plans involve the beach on Saturday. For now I have a couple panoramic shots I patched together the other day elaborating the area where I live front and back.

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