Free food...

Us grad students....we knows hows to gets the freebies. My usual method is to be a smart as, and certain factions of corporate america agree with me. See the following email exchanges between me and cipotle first after hurricane Rita, and then this past week:

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I tried to stop by and buy a burrito since the hurricane had prevented me from having one in almost a week. I was greated by a manager who tole me that for my safety they had thrown out most of their food since it had been off temperature and would not have any more till wednesday.

I was crushed. I could not believe Chipotle would make such a horrible decision. Everyone should know that most people would rather get sick from a Chipotle burrito than have to do without.

As a protest, I will probably only eat at Chipotle four or five times in the next week. That will show you!


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I enjoy your sense of humor. You are being funny, aren't you? I'm sorry that we weren't able to feed you that particular day, but if you'll give me your address, I would like to send you a couple burrito bucks. They will hopefully make up for the one you couldn't get because of Rita. I await your reply.


Sincerely,
Dawn Dillon
Mojo Mama
Chipotle



And again, me to them:

Dear Mojo Mama,

I will accept your peace offer.

P.S. Seeing as how you already have the MojoMama position at Chipotle, is there an opening for Buritto Overlord? If so, I will send a resume. (and by resume I mean a picture of me trying to eat a buritto so fast I end up wearing a third of it.)



This earned me two free burritos and free salad that i never claimed
Then:

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Last night I tried to quell the relentless seething monster that is my never ending thirst for burrito. However, I was greated with a sign that informed me of a Christmas party being attended by the staff and that my fix was not to be had.

After several hours of lying on the sidewalk outside the door sobbing and shaking with the gaunt stretched look of despair unseen by even the most depraved heroine addict. I stood up dusted myself off and stormed home in indignation.

I appreciate that Chipotle is probably the best place to work ever and that the company does everything it can to treat those employees well. But,while your crew was off wallowing in their joyfull sea of seasonal merriment,thousands of houstonians were crying themselves to sleep only to be awoken minutes later by the deafening roar of their stomachs left unfilled and hungry.

I hope you are pleased with yourselves.


P.S. Happy Holidays!


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B,

Being the season of giving and all, please send my an address. I'll make it up to you.

Sincerely,
David Chrisman
Mo'Joe


And me again:


This is yet another reason why I love this company. And I mean the real kind of love, not the kind a step parent says they have for a kid when they are explaining to the social worker where all the step kid's bruises came from.



This reward is still in the mail, but i'm expecting more....mocking child abuse has got to be worth something

The burning sensation in my lungs is a good thing...

Yesterday I hit 5k for the first time. 26:45. Not bad for someone who is designed in every way to not be an endurance runner. I'm hoping to get the time down around 24:00 before the rockets hold their yearly fun run. Should not be too hard barring any sort of stress fracture or anything. My lab mates are just going to have to get used to working next to the sweaty guy since i'm forced to squeeze my runs in during extended wait times of experiments.

I'm stuck in a rut......

My biggest obstacle is always overcoming my own procrastination. I'm having to deal with this again, but the problem is that I lack sufficient motivation. I am speaking with my boss on Monday and if that works out well I may be off and running, but if not, then I'm still in hole.

I have a time table for graduation but it isn't set in stone and depends a lot on other people which is never a good idea for making deadlines. I'm sure I'll get a thesis together I'm just beginning to think that it is going to turn out to be a rag-tag montage of various small experiments instead of one logical pathway to any sort of intelligible conclusion. Looks like I will be getting my own roton the start of next year, and that will probably do wonders for me. Having a lab monkey is a great way to force organization and spontaneously create productivity out of thin air.