Notes from Arlington, Texas # 47

Notes from Arlington, Texas # 47 (Revised & Edited)

This post has been edited as of 05/25/2022 11:42 AM after being reported as in Violation of Blogger Community standards

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The main issues that are weighing on my mind right now are: getting into graduate school, paying for graduate school, paying back any student loans that I might accumulate while attending graduate school, completing graduate school without running out of cash and credit, and then finding employment sufficiently remunerative such that any student loans I have to pay back aren't excessively burdensome.

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Even though I might be getting distracted. Or at least I feel like I'm getting distracted. It's possible that I'm getting more done than I think. What is one thing that I would like to get done? Well, complete another Copyright Registration. The issue here isn't time. It's money. I'm already stretched super thin in terms of money, and I really don't have any money to spend on pet projects, but in a way, when I say that, I know that I've spent more on lunches than. You know. Impulse purchases are issues too. you know. and I'm wasting money in one area or another, that should be better used in some other area.

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This is probably a useless thing to point out, but I have a folder for links that I have used in the past, but, don't plan on using anytime soon, they may be specific in some way, like, a specific facebook page. I might not. i obviously don't need to bookmark facebook, but there may be a specific facebook page that i might want to book mark. anyway. i have a specific bookmarks folder for bookmarks that are kind of like that. super specific pages in. anyway. the situation there is that I had folders within my archived bookmark folders. i fixed that issue of having folders within my archived bookmarks folder for bookmarks of pages within websites that i want to bookmark, but the main website doesn't need to be bookmarked. stupid trivial issue.

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Fuck. Let me think for a minute. Incessant distractions. There was something that I was thinking about. Okay. it's about the wash loss rule regarding stock trading. I wouldn't be worrying about this right now, however, I basically did not get. My unemployment insurance claim was not approved, or, disqualified, so I'm basically selling the shares I have in my Robinhood account to cover my current needs, and this also wouldn't be an issue, however, the current market prices of the shares I'm selling are below my cost-basis for the shares that I'm selling.

So I'm selling my fucking shares at a realized loss, and this has the potential to cause me to run afoul of the wash-sale rule in the event that I'm not realizing my capital losses correctly.

You know. There's a fucking correct way to lose money and shit. what a fucking nightmare.

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I'm trying to think about something. Well. It may have been possible that my. that the money I spent on the Meningitis Vaccine for college, would have been paid for by my employer health plan, but I'm not sure.

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What do I need to work on? Okay. I got distracted again. Transcribing notes. working on stuff for my twitter profile. I just can't believe how much time I've been spending on there. There was an Automated Profile, or an Automated Bot Re-Tweeter that caught my attention, and I found it interesting. I ended up experimenting with emojis for a while.

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Thumbnail Choices:

Artists & Scientists: Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Bureaucrats & Legislators: Alexander Hamilton

Entrepreneurs & Magnates: Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours

Strategists & Tacticians: John Charles Frémont

Thumbnail Choices:

  Artists & Scientists: 

     Samuel Finley Breese Morse

  Bureaucrats & Legislators: 

     Alexander Hamilton

  Entrepreneurs & Magnates: 

     Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours

  Strategists & Tacticians: 

     John Charles Frémont

What else do I need to work on?

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I really think that these mass tragedies are connected in some way. In a kind of Evil begets Evil kind of way.

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I'm getting fucking distracted again. I had my Unemployment Benefits claim disqualified. My application to the University of Texas at Arlington is complete. I have a start date for work.

What do I need to work on?

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I'm trying to think. i think the reason that i get blocked. on twitter. is that if a person's tone is. i don't know. patronizing. or condescending. trivializing. or marginalizing. or snide or snarky. i'll usually adopt a similar tone. and it usually just pisses people off.

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what the hell do I have to do? I have stay off twitter. I've only been blocked a hand full of times. I want to say three. I'm sure i've pissed everyone off. anyway. what i'm thinking about. going back to the completion of my graduate school application. is that. i am really fucking scared. i do have to take out student loans to get through school. and i know that i'll have to pay them back. This is really fucking scary. taking out student loans. and i'm not sure.

but i'm thinking that i really just need to be careful about it. going to graduate school is something that i've been wanting to do for a while. i might as well just do it, and take it as it comes.

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There is a woman on twitter. who. i'm kind of trying to engage in dialogue with, but, i'm afraid that if i interact with her directly. and i say the wrong thing. she'll block me. i think that she's part of the UX debate. which i actually haven't really researched very much. i just sort of. post shit with the tag #UX, and say something.

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