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Lol (of a desperate hysterical flavor), another $100k fee but now for OPT jobs after a degree. There are things I would like to say but probably shouldn't for both personal and practical/political reasons.

Swift rescue mission troubles don't bode well for convincing Congress to support a future Hubble service mission.

Today I will acknowledge the end of the workday and refrain from opening my laptop, looking up stuff on my phone, reading from a paper stack, or writing notes and/or pseudocode on scrap paper. I will not look at Slack or email. I will read part of a book and/or play a videogame. The day is done.

Why thank you for letting me know that I didn't get the job 8 months after submission, I was still on tenterhooks to find out.

Turns out the new insurance I am required to use for J1 status has much higher copays than the normal plan. Someday I should try to do an inventory of all the little ways this country reminds me it doesn't want me here.

It is not ideal that I have lost track of the number of times I have slept in an airport.

I am once again reminded that leaving my house and interacting with people I like enriches my life. I will soon forget this fact and live as a hermit whose only connection to society is through Zoom for months until reminded again by circumstance.

If smallsat constellation missions are going to be a thing, can someone submit a proposal for a few different wavelength range spectrographs in orbits where we can get coordinated observations of the Sun? Prioritize spectral resolution and net wavelength coverage, dismiss spatial resolution.

Now I want mangoes and I don't live near a participating Costco.

Another day where I stop working, go downstairs to eat, get distracted by thinking about work and read/write a bunch of stuff using my phone and pen/paper that is work but not on laptop, and realize it is after midnight. I have gotten too comfortable using my phone to look up code and papers.

I just made this connection and I don't think I know anyone on here who might get the reference except @shivambhatt.bsky.social and @nameshiv.bsky.social.

When someone responds to a question with "this is what Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/MarginallyDistinctFromPaulieTheParrot says ..." If I ask you something I am not using you as an intermediary between me and a search engine.

In November there will be a new Rocky-esque movie about an underdog coming out of nowhere, working to improve himself, and doing something incredible. This movie is about the making of Rocky. It is a movie in a genre about making the movie that is emblematic of the genre.

Reset the streak counter of "days I worked a normal person schedule and didn't get caught up tweaking the same project inf times but also didn't avoid work entirely" from 1 to 0.

Extremely sloppy but I made a little notebook today for the first time since grad school.