Today was going to be a day of looking through the course catalog to choose options for next term, and then emailing my advisor to discuss those options and also how to put together a degree program... but my internet connection has been down since midnight last night. *headdesk*
There is only so much a person can do from a phone and one hour on a public library computer, you know?
Oh well, at least I have been putting the time to other productive uses, such as getting through my reading for module 4 of my current class. We have hardly any economic theory this time around -- just a bit of Keynes, not even any Friedman (which I think is a strange choice, but whatever) -- so it's going much faster. History is a delight to me, even when it gets into "let's speculate about the future from our vantage point of 1987!!!" territory and is thus unintentionally hilarious. :-)
(To be fair, the author admits up front that if he's right about any of his predictions, it will be because he's lucky, not because he's good -- the only certainty is that events have a way of disrupting trends and certainties -- but 1987 was a particularly bad time for prophecies, considering just how dramatically events were going to change over the next five years.)
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In other news, I got a haircut. Yay no more hair in my eyes or doing that annoying flippy thing on the back of my neck!
There is only so much a person can do from a phone and one hour on a public library computer, you know?
Oh well, at least I have been putting the time to other productive uses, such as getting through my reading for module 4 of my current class. We have hardly any economic theory this time around -- just a bit of Keynes, not even any Friedman (which I think is a strange choice, but whatever) -- so it's going much faster. History is a delight to me, even when it gets into "let's speculate about the future from our vantage point of 1987!!!" territory and is thus unintentionally hilarious. :-)
(To be fair, the author admits up front that if he's right about any of his predictions, it will be because he's lucky, not because he's good -- the only certainty is that events have a way of disrupting trends and certainties -- but 1987 was a particularly bad time for prophecies, considering just how dramatically events were going to change over the next five years.)
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In other news, I got a haircut. Yay no more hair in my eyes or doing that annoying flippy thing on the back of my neck!