Jan. 31st, 2015

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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!
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Yay, I can get online again!

I'm not sure exactly what was going on there. It's true that for several hours, my router had no signal going in or out, but I think there was also something glitching in my actual laptop, since both before and after the router failure, it kept telling me that various Microsoft programs I hadn't opened weren't responding, and opening other programs at glacial speed such that no webpages would load even when the router was fine. Anyway, I restarted twice and that seems to have fixed whatever was eating all the processing power.

Computers are freaking weird sometimes, you know?

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