also for sale

I'm selling my fancy-ass leather office chair.

midnight oil

Applied to Genzyme online. I look forward to receiving their little "We've added your resume to our collection / We love to collect them / We need nothing else from you / Ha ha ha ha ha" postcard. Maybe they'll just email me.

slough

Seven days post-sunburn, I have entered the peely phase. I draw bits from my shoulders, and sprinkle gossamer skin flakes into the air with fluttering fingers.

whale and job

I forgot to record this: A week ago today, while deep-sea fishing off Newburyport w/sadira, I saw my first whale. I don't know what flavor it was. That thing was fucking big.

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I feel crappy. To quote (paraphrase?) Odd Todd, "Sometimes I think about other people, and how they own stuff, like houses, and cars; and like, they have stuff, like... children." I think I'll apply for work at the New England Aquarium. It's kinda like playing the lottery.

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A Wilmark representative wants to hook me up with a biotech company in Cambridge. You wanna see something funny? Here's an excerpt from the job description the Wilmark rep gave me:

We are seeking a Histotechnologist to participate in the research and development of the noninvasive measurement of vulnerable plaque through diffuse reflectance near-infrared spectroscopy.

Now here's the second hit you get when you Google for "noninvasive measurement of vulnerable plaque," a phrase I assumed would not appear in unbroken form on too many web sites:

Oh, you mean this opportunity.

It's too late for me to approach the company on my own, because I already gave Wilmark my resume. I don't think that matters, though. If a client has a good working relationship with a staffing agency, they consider the agency's submitted applicants pre-screened, and therefore more desirable. I hope.

I think I may be overqualified, but who cares? New skills, new interesting technologies, more money. I'll apply.