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fluffymark1. Written a disturbingly popular computer game.
2. Been interviewed by lead traders and very important people at several top city banks while I had bright pink hair.
3. Represented England and Britain at the card game Bridge.
4. Got sent on an all-expenses paid trip to Chicago on a flight costing several thousand pounds purely for a job interview.
5. Graduated with the top first of my subject at Cambridge, with a mark well over 10% ahead of the next person.
6. Fallen in love with someone on the steps of the Sacre Coeur in Montmartre.
7. First to explain and simulate the capture and migration of protoplanets into resonance only weeks after the first such planetary system was discovered.
8. Ordered two dozen t-shirts with the slogan "Sex and Chocolate" on the back.
9. Given up chocolate for a whole year.
10. Performed onstage as the Good Angel in the Seven Deadly Sins Fashion show in a venue squashed full of hundreds of pretentious goths at Whitby.
I think I'll stop there, I won't even go into some of the more embarassing things I've done....*cringe*
Oh, I won't be at the Oakdale tonight - my boss has demanded I attend a work dinner, so no beer for me. *sobs* If people are going to be there tomorrow, I may pop in then instead. *hopeful*
2. Been interviewed by lead traders and very important people at several top city banks while I had bright pink hair.
3. Represented England and Britain at the card game Bridge.
4. Got sent on an all-expenses paid trip to Chicago on a flight costing several thousand pounds purely for a job interview.
5. Graduated with the top first of my subject at Cambridge, with a mark well over 10% ahead of the next person.
6. Fallen in love with someone on the steps of the Sacre Coeur in Montmartre.
7. First to explain and simulate the capture and migration of protoplanets into resonance only weeks after the first such planetary system was discovered.
8. Ordered two dozen t-shirts with the slogan "Sex and Chocolate" on the back.
9. Given up chocolate for a whole year.
10. Performed onstage as the Good Angel in the Seven Deadly Sins Fashion show in a venue squashed full of hundreds of pretentious goths at Whitby.
I think I'll stop there, I won't even go into some of the more embarassing things I've done....*cringe*
Oh, I won't be at the Oakdale tonight - my boss has demanded I attend a work dinner, so no beer for me. *sobs* If people are going to be there tomorrow, I may pop in then instead. *hopeful*
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Date: 2005-02-25 12:17 am (UTC)#6 May have been lust rather than love - hard to be sure now, but I think it was lust for the other person who is probably reading this so I wouldn't be the only one if it was, if you see what I mean. Or something. You know. She'll shout at me now, I'm sure. ;)
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Date: 2005-02-25 12:53 am (UTC)Ironically, you are even more an object of lust - financially - for the bankers now that you have a D.Phil in astrophysics. I could get you into *medium continental bank* now if you're prepared spend an hour reading the Financial Times' Mastering Credit Derivatives before the interview. For a starting salary that's a multiple of my consultancy rate, and your career progression is either senior risk quant or derivatives trader, for a multiple of your departmental budget.
Hair colouring permitting.
But if you wanted that, I guess you'd you'd already be doing that. And I wonder whether, in a few years' time, you'd actually thank me for arranging that. Perhaps not, and rightly so.
oh, and there's a couple of items on your list that i m p r e s s me. Bloody well done!
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Date: 2005-02-25 01:16 am (UTC)