I’ve started a moblog, inspired by pages like Joi Ito‘s Moblog2 and mass-appeal sites like TextAmerica. I know, I’m a total geek, and I realize that nobody’s interested in seeing blurry pictures taken from my mundane life. I’m just doing it just because I can, and because it was fun setting up the system. I’ve also created a sidebar here that shows the latest picture from my moblog, because, frankly, don’t expect anyone to actually track Loco.moxn itself.

An email gets sent from my mobile phone to a secret email address, which then gets passed through a Perl script, chopped up into pieces, and fed into Movabletype. It took some fine-tuning to get the templates to work properly, but it was easy enough.

Ah, and you thought I’d be writing something insightful, about politics, media, technology, or why China and India are eating our lunches. Sorry, no such luck. Maybe in a couple days. Until then, look to the right for some blurry pictures of my cats.

So a lot has been happening over the past few weeks, with such a rapid pace that I really haven’t had any time to keep in touch with friends, let alone keep my blog up to date.

On Sunday, May 23, under a cloudy sky and with a bit of a hangover, I received a BS in Computer Science and Russian from Tufts University. It’s strange to think that four years of my life flew by so quickly. If I could do it all over again, I’d like to think that I would take more advantage of all the resources Tufts has to offer — but that’s probably wrong. I don’t think anyone can do everything in just four years at a University; with every interest you pursue, every skill you develop, and every person you befriend, you open some doors and you close others. That’s just how it works, and I’m happy with how I chose to spend my time (and money) there.

I was lucky enough to be offered a job as I left school. Employment rates for this year’s Computer Science grads are depressingly low, so when Arcadia Solutions offered me a consulting position, on the condition that I start work three days after graduation, I took it.

Arcadia specializes in a number of software packages. I’ve been assigned to a fairly hefty project involving EIM. In a nutshell, this is software that helps massive companies manage the overwhelmingly complex compensation plans and bonus packages they give to their sales forces.

I’ve had to hit the ground running, so to speak, and I’m learning a lot. I’m also spending my week living out of a hotel room, which is sort of alienating and weird, but I’m not complaining. For the time being I’m staying at home in Fairfield on the weekends, but Arcadia’s central office is located in Burlington, MA, which means that before the end of July, I need to find a place to live in the Boston area. (Anyone need a roommate?)

On an even more disturbing note, Becca is going to start school at UPenn in September. I still think of her as my baby sister, whereas I distinctly remember considering myself an adult when I started college. The cognitive dissonance hasn’t worn off yet.

My brain still thinks it’s summer; I still feel that this is all just vacation, that something new is going to happen in September. (I was planning a trip the other day, and I found myself instinctively trying to fit it into my schedule before the end of August.) Then I see my sister, grown up, venturing into the irreality of the “real world” as experienced by college students, and I ask myself, “When did she grow up?” I know that four years from now I’ll be attending her college graduation, thinking, “How the hell did all this slip by me so quickly?”

Someone once told me that the more comfortable your life gets, the quicker it passes you by. Let’s hope I don’t get too comfortable, too fast.

But in the meantime, I have a strategy report to finish for tomorrow.