Renaissance Grrrl

These past few weeks I've been hacking up a storm. It's been fun, but I need to take a break. One of the big things I learned last fall is that I really need to take breaks. I was good about it all spring, but this summer I've been slipping into my old ways. Those workaholic ways. And when it gets that way, too often coding begins to feel like ripping out a piece of my soul. Or, not ripping. Purging. Whatever. In any case, not good. I much prefer the euphoric sorts of hacking sprees, where spilling my art out into the world feels more like a blessing, like gift giving, like spilling my heart does. So yeah. If it's not like that, then I need to take a break.

The last couple days I've been watching Sense8, which is amazing. It's been a long time since I've given anything five starts in Netflix. I've been watching some cool stuff, been giving lots of fours, but not fives. So yeah, total five star work. The Wachowskis are amazing. I never got all super into the Matrix like everyone else —I mean the first movie was fun and all— but yeah, between Jupiter Ascending and Sense8, they're just awesome. Should prolly see their rendition of Cloud Atlas; but I dunno if it could really live up to the book.

Speaking of breaks, and furies of activity: I'm flying out to Portland on saturday, will be there for a week. Then, when I get back I'm going to WOLLIC/CoCoNat for a week. And then, towards the end of the following week I start the interview process at Google. Then there's a couple weeks of calm before flying off to ICFP. And after that, I need to dig into the dissertation again. Really, I should be working on it now, but like I said: other coding has been eating at my brain. Really need to get it just squared away and out the door. Can't wait to fly off to Mountain View or wherever else is next in life.