anticlimax

thats been used to describe the feeling you get when you walk across the stage at college graduation. i couldn't agree more, although i'm glad i chose to walk. proud to have the folks who came to watch be there as well. proud to have walked next in line with richard, with whom i have shared many of my college experiences.

what cant be explained is the feeling of relief, but unsatisfied with the level of accomplishment. i need and want a masters. i could give a damn about a big city job at this moment. i could give a damn about taking a, well, i'll call it, "an any business degree works, we'll train you to be a drone for our corporation job." at least with a masters i can actually call myself an economist or move up decently once hired by a think tank or govt job. so, for now, i'll work at the 'dam restaurant and learn to cook and work well with a team. that might actually get me somewhere.

plus, with no school i have time to spend elsewhere. like starbucks. "funny the way it is", new single by DMB, is stuck in my head something fierce.

been a while

Since I've blogged or seen season one of dexter.

March and April flew by IMO

april...

...showers bring may flowers. april is gonna be a big month; final stretch. i wont go into detail, but in a conversation with a coworker at moes, we talked about how the semester's sorta shape up. the analogy is better told in person...

Ive started the month off resting, hitting the grind tonite, sorta, through sunday though. hopefully golf on monday works out.

i guess, ugh, if my studying is rain, then maybe may will bring some good grades. get it?

moreover, i forgot i sent that last post from class. in macro last tuesday.

in class

Class at 8 was cancelled. Metrics was 10:20 to 11.
Macro is boring, thats right now.

Shaq tweeted at halftime.

headphones2

aight, tried out headphones at work, while cleaning. not terrible. it be better if i could hear the stereo down on the station i typically work. the verdict: i'll keep headphones in my car just in case.

blah, blah, headphones, blah blah...enough is enough

i think if everyone who wore headphones, wore, instead, little mini speakers where everyone else could catch a bit of audio when paths are crossed...then that, that would be more interesting.

headphones

i have never had an ipod. i have had a 1gb mp3 player that has been used sparingly. i like ipods, in the car, definately..but plugged up through the stereo. listening to things on headphones is not my favorite. recently though, i decided to get pandora installed on my phone (i have plugged that into a stereo too) and would eventually try out headphones again. but...the headphones didnt feel right.

take this morning for example. i was walking down glenn to get my car. listening to pandora via headphones. it made me uncomfortable to be walking down a fairly busy road without being able to hear it. my balance seemed thrown off.

imaybe i'll give headphones another go while i'm cleaning up at work or something...but headphones while simply walking -- nodda.

p.s. to be clear, i took the headphones out before the song big eyed fish was over.

writing

i havent been posting much lately. not much going on. the only things i have thought about to blog, were ideas that i wasnt sure how to present in writing. and, too lazy to figure out how to organize them for a blogs purpose.

also, been thinkin more about paper topics for school then blog topics. maybe thats killed some blog thinkin time.

but, while at the beach, i read some of "dreams from my father" by obama. probably gonna have to put that on hiatus though. was at a decent stopping point - only a few chapters into the chicago section. origins was a neat section, about his childhood, adolescence, college years. chicago starts in 1982-83ish, when obama went to chicago as a community organizer. i read the first part of clintons "my life" (in paperback it's split in two, i think they are called 'early years' and 'presidential years' - i read the former) a few years ago. the biggest similarity i see between the two, is how it's amazing those kids grew up to be president....

time to read up on the new yankee stadium...econ of sports paper topic