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Well, that was fun. A year on the Obama campaign, primarily in Nevada, California, Alaska, and Ohio for the G.E.
If there's one thing that can be said about working on a presidential election in Ohio, it's that your hairline will recede quite a bit faster than usual. |
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| 10:47am 20/06/2008 |
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Sorry for the lack of updates everyone. In short, I've spent the past six months first volunteering and then working for the Obama campaign. I've been organizing five congressional districts in the East Bay, and have taken a couple of trips to Nevada to work on various projects.
I just got my general election assignment.
Drumroll Please
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| 10:26pm 03/01/2008 |
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HOOOOOLY SHIT! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Someone I'm actually campaigning for is actually winning. Un fucking believable. Are we actually rejecting Clintonian mediocrity? Edwardsian deductionism? Is something actually going right?
I've become so accustomed to political disappointment, even after '06 I don't know how to deal with this. I'm just incredibly happy.
And I'm also glad that sleazebag Romney is crashing and burning. Although he would have been easier to beat than Huckabee or McCain. Oh well.
But anyways, who doesn't want this guy to be president?
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| 12:27am 28/11/2007 |
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Just a nice pic from a show that I was at recently
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| 03:41pm 05/10/2007 |
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I badly sprained my ankle playing in a playground last night. Cool. |
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| 01:50am 27/08/2007 |
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Did you play ping pong with the drummer from the Long Winters tonight?
I did. |
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| 12:48pm 24/06/2007 |
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Rod Beck was my favorite player as a kid. I totally emulated him when I used to pitch. He was the heart and soul of the '97 Giants. Everything about him was country cool. When he pitched in the minors years after he had achieved stardom, he lived in a trailer behind his stadium in Iowa and would invite fans over for beers after the game. This bums me out.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2914994
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| I graduate today |
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| 02:12am 08/06/2007 |
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well, I went to college and I learned some big words
and I talked real loud
goddamn right I was heard
you'll remember the guy that said all those big words he must've
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| 11:26pm 07/06/2007 |
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"I got you so wet, it's like a rainforest
Like Jurassic Park, except I'm your sexosaurus, babe.''
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| 06:55pm 07/05/2007 |
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If there's one thing I've learned in college, it is that the road from friend to enemy goes directly through the kitchen. |
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| 06:12pm 28/04/2007 |
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This is not a joke so please stop smiling.
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| 02:34am 13/04/2007 |
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Just finished The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. That was the first book that really moved me in a while. I've been on a non-fiction spree this year and it was nice to be reminded that the imagination can really blow you away sometimes. Not that it's a wacky, out of this world books. Rather, it's more of the kind of book that appeal to a guy who loved Nick Hornby five years ago but is five significant years older than he was when he loved Nick Hornby.
Other books I've read in the past months:
- Thomas Friedman, Longitudes and Attitudes
- Mark Fiorna, Culture War?
- Vladmir Putin, First Person
- Barak Obama, The Audacity of Hope
- Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking
- John Crawford, The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted
- Nella Larsen, Passing
- Roy Morris, Jr, Fraud of the Century
- Mychael Urban, Aces
- Bill Lee, The Wrong Stuff
- Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation
- Robert Kennedy, 13 Days
- Michael Chabon, Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
- Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising
- F. Scot Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- Michael Chabon, A Model World
amongst various textbooks and other assigned readings, and probably some others that should be included here that I'm forgetting |
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| 07:13pm 28/03/2007 |
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Hi Brad:
I'm sending unsolicited paper comments to some of the students in 405.
Your paper is very exciting. If you wanted to gamble some of your free time,
I think that you have a shot at getting this published. The research design
is solid and not very complicated, and the subject is important of
widespread interest. Finally, you take on a conventional wisdom and show
that it is not carefully thought out and apparently wrong. These ingredients
make it an important piece.
The presentation needs work, but not a lot of work. The drawback of the
publication process is that it is uncertain and takes time. There's a good
chance of rejection on the first round, and maybe even the second and third.
But eventually I think you would break through. Or the other option is to
publish this in the Phi Beta Kappa (?) journal? That might be worth
considering because this article might give that journal some buzz in the
media.
Anyway, great work!
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| 05:21pm 12/03/2007 |
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Maybe the only humorous aspect of working at the East Asia library is that every once in a while, I recieve emails like this:
Hi Brad,
I am sorry that I miss informed about Library open hours. We will open until
8pm. next week.
Please come to work 5:00 pm on Monday
thank you
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| 07:11pm 26/02/2007 |
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So it looks like I'll basically be driving straight to Arizona in a few weeks. That is such a long goddamn ways. Yahoo maps puts the trip at 1573 miles. It is impossible for me to imagine that many miles. Oakland to Seattle is 830 or so, and that's a long goddamn drive. So basically double that. Me and Brad will head down to the Bay Area, leaving Seattle sometime on Wednesday Morning. Hopefully, we get to the Bay Area by Wednesday night. We'll leave for Az on Thursday evening. I think we're going to actually have to literally drive through LA, and then lake a left for a couple of hundred miles. So we'll be in Pheonix on Friday morning, go to two games on Friday, head out to Tuscon (another hundred miles away) to go to a game on Saturday, and then a game on Sunday, after which we start high tailing it back to the Bay Area. We'll be back in the Bay sometime on Monday. Maybe we'll stay with friends in LA overnight or something, and then be in the Bay Area by midday or so. Either way, I'm not going to want to touch a car when I get back to the Bay. I'll be in town between that Monday, and I figgure me and Brad'll leave either Saturday or Sunday, be back in Seattle by Monday.
The more I think about it, the more overwhelming it seems, so I guess I will just not think about it. By the end of the trip we will have done probably 3,500 miles. There's a Modest Mouse song that goes "and a thousand miles is too far inside a car". Well, this is too far times 3.5. Maybe I should take more of a Frank Black approach: "I'll go a thousand miles before I get me some sleep. You think I'm exaggerating babe, well that ain't nothin to me". Yeah, that's more like it. Either way, it's going to be heroic. Death defying, even. Good lord do I wish my car had cruise control.
I'm going to need some books on tape. And some ritalin.
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