I’m now a grownup, apparently

Whoa, it’s been a long time since my last update. (My previous post seems to have been received exceptionally poorly. I guess people don’t like negativity.)

Part of the reason why I update less frequently now is that I spend a lot of time on Quora and it gives me the opportunity to write a lot of things about science that I probably would’ve written here instead. Some people even blog on Quora, but I don’t think it makes sense for me to do so. I have a lot of followers on Quora, but they probably want to see my thoughts on science, and may or may not be interested in my personal life. On the other hand, a lot of people who read my blog aren’t on Quora.

I had planned to update in September, because that’s when I had planned to start work. For anyone who doesn’t know yet, I’m now living in Sunnyvale, California and working full-time as a software engineer at Google! Due to problems with getting a visa, I wasn’t actually able to start until the past Monday—more than four months after my initially planned start date. I guess you could say I had a rather long vacation—longer than I could handle, as I was starting to get quite bored at home.

This is, of course, my first full-time job, and for the first time, I feel that I have to exercise a lot of self-restraint. During my internships, I skipped breakfast, stuffed myself at dinner, drank a lot of pop, and frequently ate unhealthy snacks. I allowed myself to get away with it because I knew that the internship would end in a few months, and then I wouldn’t be tempted as much. Things are a lot different now, because, well, who knows how long I’m going to be here? If I develop unhealthy habits, it’s going to be hard to break them. So I now wake up early enough to catch breakfast at the office, eat reasonable portions at lunch and dinner, limit my consumption of pop, and try to eat at least one piece of fresh fruit per day. (Google doesn’t have as many unhealthy snacks as Facebook; I haven’t yet seen beef jerky at the office.) Now I just have to make myself exercise… urgh, I’ll get to that eventually >_>

You know, when I was a little kid, like all other kids, I hated having a bedtime, and I wondered why adults didn’t have bedtimes, and my mom told me that adults do have bedtimes, and they’re just self-imposed. Well, now I understand. I guess that makes me an adult, eh?

(Oh, and one last note: The girl mentioned in the previous post is no longer my girlfriend. I suppose it’s a little bit embarrassing to excitedly announce that you’re dating someone and then break up shortly afterward, but, oh well, that’s life. I’m not going to retroactively edit the post to hide my embarrassment or anything like that. She’s still an awesome person; just not the right one for me.)

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