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case in point: until today i hadn't been out of the apartment since the last time i wrote on not being at the apartment; and today was greatly contrasting.
i went to ucf to post signs advertising my car for sale. i timed it so i could meet hans after one of his classes, hang out for an hour and a half, then join him and kretzer for economix at six. i'm still not sure if it was macro or micro... it was early enough in the semester for the concepts to overlap, plus the professor's analogies were mixed.
i had a good time. got a little restless being crammed into so many people, but the class elapsed fast. macro-ec is one of my favorite subjects. for me, its worth is higher than it would normally be nickel and dimed for. it's priceless even on a collegiate appraisal chart. if i could be in any think tank, it would probably be socio-economic or geo-political -- and geo-political merely because i find arrogant pride in knowing that a kid coasting down empty roads at four in the morning while listening to nine inch nails knows more about the background and reasoning of this past war with iraq than the most politically active fingerpointer.
i avoided paying for the five hours of parking by parking in a visitor parking spot in an apartment complex owned by the school and walking to a shuttle bus stop. stowing away on all this free education shouldn't be much of a deal because the amount of knowledge gained from all this trouble is minuscule. the opportunity cost, however, makes it all worthwhile. it wasn't the first time and won't be the last. hope i can get away with it forever.
the obvious bonus was observing all the beauty and ugliness the school has floating around. believe me, there's an abundance of both. it's a biodome with a timed seal. all of it is indistinguishable, and will morely be when the specimens are released.
hans got me mcdonald's for dinner. he's in an underground network of orlando corporate managers. yep. has a super secret id card that entitles him to eighteen mcdonald's combo meals (two per location, nine locations) every day for one full year. he can wave it at any employee and it magically works like a board game. don't even get me started on quantity. i can have an ounce of the world's most expensive caviar and still feel like a peasant, yet access to more saturated fat than i could ever possibly eat makes my mouth water with greed. a "lifetime supply" of *anything* has an arousing ring.
the night ended with tnh. i think it's safe to murmur the initials. translated, it means fellowship with people who matter; and that's all that matters.
MY VERY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
today was my first day of school. i saw a tv commercial that told me no city can be great without a great universty and i wanted to be great too. so i waited at the bus stop and then a cute little school bus came to get me. all the other boys and girls were looking at me funny. i sat alone. but when the bus got to school i was staring out the window and saw a bunch of people i know! all in different places! and then later i saw even more!! whoever had the idea of organizing education in one big area should be hugged. i think it was the mayor or this city from forty years ago because i saw a sign that said the school was forty years old. wow, that's older than albert einstein's air conditioning prototype! i saw a lot of kids walking around around with backpacks just like at my old school except now they were a little older and smoking and didn't have corridor passes! that made me feel funny until i was walking behind some girls and they saw another girl and said hi how are you and smiled real big and then when she was gone they stopped smiling and said she slept with some boy and called her names and i felt right at home just like at my old school. oh and it was so hot and i had to walk so far i even had to take my shirt off! mr. mayor probably gets more credit than he should for making this place so big. he owes me a bottle of headache medicine! i went to eat at italian fast food with my friend in free time and it was good. in class when my teacher wrote "compliment goods" on his big tv thingy and three hundred boys and girls mindlessly wrote the same thing on their papers it was hard not to shout "value destroyer!!!" even if he works forty five hours a week as a real life economist. but i learned a lot of things today i think the most important is to not tell anyone who i fall asleep next to because that would make me a slut! thanks mr. mayor for school! i can't wait for my next day!!
i went to ucf to post signs advertising my car for sale. i timed it so i could meet hans after one of his classes, hang out for an hour and a half, then join him and kretzer for economix at six. i'm still not sure if it was macro or micro... it was early enough in the semester for the concepts to overlap, plus the professor's analogies were mixed.
i had a good time. got a little restless being crammed into so many people, but the class elapsed fast. macro-ec is one of my favorite subjects. for me, its worth is higher than it would normally be nickel and dimed for. it's priceless even on a collegiate appraisal chart. if i could be in any think tank, it would probably be socio-economic or geo-political -- and geo-political merely because i find arrogant pride in knowing that a kid coasting down empty roads at four in the morning while listening to nine inch nails knows more about the background and reasoning of this past war with iraq than the most politically active fingerpointer.
i avoided paying for the five hours of parking by parking in a visitor parking spot in an apartment complex owned by the school and walking to a shuttle bus stop. stowing away on all this free education shouldn't be much of a deal because the amount of knowledge gained from all this trouble is minuscule. the opportunity cost, however, makes it all worthwhile. it wasn't the first time and won't be the last. hope i can get away with it forever.
the obvious bonus was observing all the beauty and ugliness the school has floating around. believe me, there's an abundance of both. it's a biodome with a timed seal. all of it is indistinguishable, and will morely be when the specimens are released.
hans got me mcdonald's for dinner. he's in an underground network of orlando corporate managers. yep. has a super secret id card that entitles him to eighteen mcdonald's combo meals (two per location, nine locations) every day for one full year. he can wave it at any employee and it magically works like a board game. don't even get me started on quantity. i can have an ounce of the world's most expensive caviar and still feel like a peasant, yet access to more saturated fat than i could ever possibly eat makes my mouth water with greed. a "lifetime supply" of *anything* has an arousing ring.
the night ended with tnh. i think it's safe to murmur the initials. translated, it means fellowship with people who matter; and that's all that matters.
MY VERY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
today was my first day of school. i saw a tv commercial that told me no city can be great without a great universty and i wanted to be great too. so i waited at the bus stop and then a cute little school bus came to get me. all the other boys and girls were looking at me funny. i sat alone. but when the bus got to school i was staring out the window and saw a bunch of people i know! all in different places! and then later i saw even more!! whoever had the idea of organizing education in one big area should be hugged. i think it was the mayor or this city from forty years ago because i saw a sign that said the school was forty years old. wow, that's older than albert einstein's air conditioning prototype! i saw a lot of kids walking around around with backpacks just like at my old school except now they were a little older and smoking and didn't have corridor passes! that made me feel funny until i was walking behind some girls and they saw another girl and said hi how are you and smiled real big and then when she was gone they stopped smiling and said she slept with some boy and called her names and i felt right at home just like at my old school. oh and it was so hot and i had to walk so far i even had to take my shirt off! mr. mayor probably gets more credit than he should for making this place so big. he owes me a bottle of headache medicine! i went to eat at italian fast food with my friend in free time and it was good. in class when my teacher wrote "compliment goods" on his big tv thingy and three hundred boys and girls mindlessly wrote the same thing on their papers it was hard not to shout "value destroyer!!!" even if he works forty five hours a week as a real life economist. but i learned a lot of things today i think the most important is to not tell anyone who i fall asleep next to because that would make me a slut! thanks mr. mayor for school! i can't wait for my next day!!