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This definitely fits the moment that I am in now. :)

posted by velvet_whispers on May 20, 2007 at 12:29 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Good luck!

Thank you, Tony!

Just keep the good thoughts coming. I really want this job. I haven't really wanted any one job especially for a long, long time. But this one is so right on so many levels for me now.

My brother, Rich, tells me to keep my fingers crossed, but it is hard to type that way.

Regards,
Carl Peter

posted by cpklapper on May 16, 2007 at 8:24 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you Najwa for your encouraging poem

I thought the interview went well, but this process has been achingly slow.

Carl Peter

PS: I am getting my first rose blossoms of the season, as well as lavender. The iris buds are growing full.

posted by cpklapper on May 16, 2007 at 8:12 PM | link to this | reply

CPK well done and the best of good luck Funny the places we need to write.

posted by Kabu on May 15, 2007 at 7:40 PM | link to this | reply

Good luck!

posted by Antonionioni on May 15, 2007 at 11:23 AM | link to this | reply

Hoping for the next stop on the Train
For new morning fresh air and no pain
Awakening eyes to the sky white blue
It is the life is up and down comes through
Some time we recorded for me and you
Some other stop for our life Train will be
Child laughter waiting for sweet new
And the Train will carry the smile for you
the stranger

posted by NAJWA on May 15, 2007 at 3:05 AM | link to this | reply

Re: cpklapper

Thank you, my "Super Genius" friend. I had a little anxiety about getting to the interview on time when the train slowed down for some reason, so I wrote those first lines with a little jerk in the fourth line as the train started moving again. The unsteady handwriting on that line reflects this.

The last quatrain I wrote on the way back thinking about how this job finally combines logic and economics on a software development project with nice people -- not a single interviewer played the resentful gate-keeper -- working for a very well regarded company with comfortable contractor rates leading, hopefully, to the excellent compensation package after conversion to employee. Plus, the last interviewer had a view of the Brooklyn Bridge and sailboats out his office window which was a nice setting for our discussion of ontology and automated theorem provers. For some reason, that bridge has been a recurring and unifying theme in my life, so my viewing it then was, for me, a kind of affirmation that this was the job I was meant for. The sailboats also had this role as I remember my Mom mentioning many years back, in commending Stamford, CT as a place to look for work, that a setting near the water and sailboats seemed to be the preferred one for inventive and mathematical minds.

Carl Peter

posted by cpklapper on May 14, 2007 at 9:18 PM | link to this | reply

Re: wonderful poem

Thank you, Hazel. I am glad you liked it.

posted by cpklapper on May 14, 2007 at 8:47 PM | link to this | reply

Re: WEll expressed .Nice poem.

Thank you, afzal! It was a sort of stream of consciousness piece with a slowing down of the train near Linden and the tunnel having a part.

posted by cpklapper on May 14, 2007 at 8:46 PM | link to this | reply

cpklapper

I loved that, and the first stanza really grabbed me. well done

"Strange the passage into day
When so long in the night
Each turn of wheel seems oh so slow
And distant is the light"