the everyday adventures of sabrina

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in which i set new goals

4 October 2010 at 01:06 1 comment

So last summer quarter I took a class which alleged to be about Stress Management for Health and Wellness, but which was not so much, really. But I did wind up getting something out of it — for a project, I consolidated some of the stuff I’d been noodling on for a while, like my plot to start running this summer and complete a 5k race (which I did!), and came up with new goals. I find that I am good at coming up with ambitious things to do, but unless they have concrete deadlines attached, I suck at actually carrying through with them. (Which is why I signed up for the 5k long before I could run for more than 90 seconds at a time — and why I’m not done with a lot of my independent study stuff for school, but I digress.)

So, for that class, I not only wrote in a paper that I handed in (so there was one witness), but presented to the whole class (so there are like 20 of them): I want to do a sprint distance race in the Chicago Triathlon in 2011, and an international distance race in the London Triathlon in 2012.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a crazyniquischeme! continue reading…

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the facebook view of sabrina

25 September 2010 at 13:40 No comments

Me in one sidebar frame:

Likes [81 likes]: Scotch, Pet Shop Boys, Not Being Stabbed Repeatedly

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complete insanity

18 September 2010 at 18:48 No comments

usa triathlon reg

south side triathlon 2011 registration

This can only end in tears. But not for about 10 months!

Oh, and just for kicks:

because i'm crazy

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in which everyone is jealous and also i am a ninja

31 August 2010 at 22:13 No comments

* niqui ponders run.
<niqui> the next run in the queue is a ridiculous 20 minute uninterrupted run.
<niqui> like, this whole time it’s been intervals, warm up, jog walk jog walk jog, cool down
<niqui> it started out with 60 seconds of jogging, 90 seconds of walking, alternated for 20 minutes. the last one was 8 mins run, 5 mins walk, 8 mins run.
<niqui> but this one is just warm up, 20 minute jog, cool down.
<wasy> this all sounds pretty ridiculous
<niqui> then the next one goes back to intervals again
<niqui> but this one’s going to be haaaaaard. i mean. 20 minutes.
<niqui> and there’s this one ugly hill on the lake front path, where it goes under the street that leads to the adler planetarium
<niqui> it’s just a short hill on the shedd side, but on the harbor side, it’s a long incline way way back up to street level
<niqui> and i am always whipped by the time i run all the way around the shedd and then up that damn hill
<wasy> maybe you should just go on a nice, relaxing bike ride down the expressway instead. beats running!
<not_wasy> won’t have to do it twice
<niqui> the 8 minute run goes all that way and a little longer, maybe half the way from “solidarity dr,” which is a stupid street name, (roughly 1300 s) to waldron
<niqui> so at the end of that stupid hill i won’t even be halfway through my run, i’ll still have to head down probably past 18th st most of the way to mccormick before i turn around and head back
* niqui eyes the map. hm. if i do do that 20 minute run, i’ll basically be jogging two miles straight.
<niqui> that is pretty badass of me, considering i couldn’t even run all the way around the back of the shedd when i started out
<wasy> this is all crazy talk
<niqui> you’re just jealous of my newfound badassitude
<niqui> best of all, i still look like a schlump, so it’s *stealth* badassitude. i’m practically a ninja.
<wasy> will niqui be going on the reality tv show for people who want to be ninjas?
<niqui> no, going on tv is antithetical to my schlumpy stealth ninja philosophy.
<wasy> ninjaqui?
<niqui> NO ONE MUST KNOW ABOUT NINJAQUI.
* niqui dresses in all black, jogs silently back into the shadows to lurk ominously

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i think AT&T doesn’t want me to get a job

27 August 2010 at 20:23 No comments

It seems pretty typical for a job interview process to go like this:

Step 1: Employer receives CV. Employer drinks enough caffeine to decide that CV is not completely awful.
Step 2: First pass: HR tries to make sure candidate has a heartbeat and is not a zombie.
Step 3: Second stage: phone screen. Actual sysadmin calls to make sure candidate is not entirely full of shit.
Step 4: Candidate gets to go to actual face-to-face interview! Once, twice, or possibly many times, depending on how dedicated employer is to exhausting candidate’s interview wardrobe.
Step 5: PROFIT.

So you’ll note that very early on in this process, the use of a telephone is indicated. You’d think it wouldn’t really be much of a problem, because phones are, like, old, and stuff, and they just work, and stuff. And maybe that would be the case if I had a real phone. But I don’t. I am the one out of four Americans who has given up her landline and has only a mobile phone, because I’m only one person and how many phones do I need? (Especially because I kind of hate using the phone a little. I never was one of those people who sat around for hours and just chatted.) I haven’t had a real phone as a matter of course for few years. I had one in my old apartment at Printer’s Square, because I had to have one for the door intercom buzzer to let people in, and I had one in my apartment in Wicker Park because I thought pizza delivery people would push back (prank caller!) if I gave an 847 number — which was clearly just me being old and paranoid, nobody cares about area codes anymore. But in my place now, I just have the mobile. And even though sometimes service is spotty in my apartment, it doesn’t really matter much to me because I do all my social outing arranging via text, basically, and about the only time I use phones is if I have to call customer service for something. And I have Skype for that.

Except now, you see, it’s the end of my delicious, delicious summer vacation and I have to go back to being a grown-up now, which means hunting for a job. (I loved you, summer vacation. You were so awesome. Let’s do it again sometime!) And what does Step 2 of interviewing involve? THE PHONE! continue reading…

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