Got into the reading room for the morning, will need to head back to school after lunch. I can see some flurry outside the window, in the backdrop of skyscrapers and murals of twilight clouds.
It's beautiful and the world looks good. There are people in the reading room silently going about with their business, all reading or writing something with a sort of intense concentration that can't be seen with most people outside of here.
My laptop is on the desk crunching away at numbers and figures, and I have an old book of Ovid open in front of me to pass away the time of calculation. I love the smell of old books and slight scent of coffee in the air. I guess some of them just got off the daily dose of morning bagel and coffee.
In this brief moments of the days I feel very much alive and and recharged. It's a calm feeling that your life is going in the right direction, and the reminder that you are, and will be devoted to your dreams. It's a very gentle promise of the world that there are people who see far enough to worry about something more than their immediate comfort and survival. It's the sound of the future being laid out, probably for the better.
I might move to Boston sometime soon. I'm trying to get to MIT and there's a chance that I might actually be able to make it. I'll really miss this city once I'm gone.
While I'm still here though, I really need to get the diybio nyc rolling. It's really hard to find good people who are interested in diybio itself, rather than showing off with half-baked notions of 'biohacking' and whatnot. I need people who have demonstrated a capacity to stick with something and see it through to the end. Not something that takes months but something that takes years of continued effort and devotion. At this stage of the group letting in unproven people with questionable devotion and motivation would be devastating to the morale of the group. Not to mention, the group is in a very financially uncertain state. I would need people capable of supporting the group financially as well as technically. The members would have to be givers as well as takers. There have been some progress but I still need to find some way to get more of such qualified people working with the group. Once the group itself stabilizes a bit more, with decent funding and reliable, dedicated members, we would be able to accomodate people who are not as dedicated.
Well, it's time for me to go off and do some real work again.
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