I am extremely excited to announce that I will be joining the Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor. Yes, Professor Patrick. After six years at Carnegie Mellon I will be moving on, still in academia, but for the first time in ever, not as a student.

There is plenty more to say and show, why I chose UNM, how much I really will miss Pittsburgh, how helpful everyone here at CMU and around the world has been to me as I decided what to do next, what I will be teaching in the fall, what my next steps are with research, how great my apartment is going to be, but before all that … I need to go finish my dissertation.

So, I am going to go get on that and I will see you in Albuquerque.

Blog is back.
(Was it ever really gone or are these just brief pauses?)
(Also what’s a year?)

I find myself more and more with things I should be complaining about, criticizing, and hopefully through speaking, improving. So let me see what I can do here.

Remarkably good, considering.

It was Wednesday where I felt the stone and grass. Where I acquired dozens of cookies and brought them outside with my overly-watery iced chai, but it didn’t even matter, and I found friends and we spent time. and there was sun.

And Friday was the end of that show, that space opera. The only show that I really watched, week to week, for years. The show that should have ended on a desolate earth, but sometimes things go on just a bit longer then they should, leaving a stale taste in your mouth, avoidably. Trying too hard, too much, too epic, lavish, magical, perfect.

It was Tuesday and serendipity ran me into you.

Then later he and I traveled into the corners of the College of Fine Arts, into old rooms with high ceilings and internal two-floor stacked office space with hidden staircases free-standing. the paneled walls. the ornate ceiling. the aged colors and wooden benches and style.

Or maybe just in invitations, in admirations, the week passed so smoothly that I am ready for spring to come and never go.

I said:

This month it is back on. Like a high speed train that just skipped off the tracks and has just slammed into a Super Wal-mart sending a hurricane of Chinese-made consumer goods into the air as the city in the background stand solid, calm, dark, and modern as it burns away the Earth.

Really.

I am a giant liar. But I will pretend that when I said “this” month, I meant “next” month, and I will pretend that the high speed train was very very far away to begin with, so it is only today or possibly tomorrow that we can expect it to hurtle through the cinderblock construction of the aforementioned megastore.

So beware, as it is all about to start.

(Really.)

Organized by color.

(Yes. It happened like three weeks ago. I know.)

My mother did all my laundry. For that I am thankful.

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weblog.

oh. i get it.

Sure Sure Is.

A new and likely super temporary design that has functionality. That is what we were going for here. (We is me.)

May went too quickly, and really so did the second half of April. However now everything is slower, now everything will be slower. I will savor your quiet smile while I still can. I will put pencil to paper each day until the day it counts. I will embrace Helvetica and bold lines and find something that works. I will post a movie (or book) review everyday until I have destroyed the backlog. I will actually code with precious gems and hopefully prepare visual delights. The next twenty days will be good, but if they will actually be written as I have above described I cannot say. Life is less predictable than I like to accept.

The most ridiculous part about this, is that this will almost certainly be up days into June and I will look like a fool. Welcome to the summer.

The website “glitch” is over.
Also, I have a confession to make – it wasn’t a real glitch! Nothing was even broken, I was just hiding the website from you because I wanted to make it whiter. You know?

Alright, so here is a simple white version of the website. It is kinda boring and I am not done, but you see I told you there would be a post everyday in April, and now you can actually read them. So, do that.

Yes. Seriously.

So many things are going to happen. It might be the busiest month ever. I might actually get caught up to date on movies. The site is probably going to switch to black on white. It might even switch over to Wordpress, alright, I won’t go that far, but I do really like the re-designed admin. I might get a lot of really good work & research & projects & art & reading done. I will post everyday.

And with that, I leave you tonight with patrickgage.com/o/ or oh-slash, as it were.