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February 2025

For the second year running, UBC rejected my application to their creative writing master’s program. I half expected this; I knew my post-graduate ambitions weren’t crystallized. I don’t have a reason to go on to the next level of higher education beyond wanting to avoid re-entering the workforce.

It’s been 5,698 days since I left Berlitz, Japan. That long since I’ve had a real income. But I still remember what it was like to be crushed by the responsibilities inherent in fulfilling someone else’s dream. If I work again, it must be on a shared vision. That’s my only real requirement. Working from home would be a huge boon, given my disabilities, but it wouldn’t be a requirement. Ideally, something in artificial intelligence—something that exercises my creative writing chops. Something that gives me time to develop a video game and work on woodworking projects in my free time.

It would be great if we could put our hopes into a machine and have it spit out the ideal livelihood.

I have a ton of work to do between now and completing my undergraduate degree. I’d best get to it.

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I’m still working toward adding user accounts to this website. Once that’s in place, there’ll be a notification system that shows you what you have and haven’t read. There was a period where I was sending out digests via the current mailing list, but that was more work than it was worth. So, until I’ve written the necessary code, I’ll continue providing monthly summaries like this one.

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As always, thank you for your kind attention. See you at the end of March!

2025.02.01 – 2025.02.28

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