Summer time in the void
It's been awhile since I've updated and seeing as I am sitting in an awesome executive office with a pushy laptop, I will comply.
Work is going okay. I was the receptionist for a couple weeks and I actually liked it a lot. I didn't watch the clock every day or run out of things to do and have to pretend to be busy. I've got three weeks until my vacation. I'm supposed to be "cleaning up the K-drive" though I finished doing that in one of my first weeks here so I am just kicking back, enjoying the view. I wonder if anyone would notice if I snuck out onto the patio to get a tan...
My parents paid for my accident. I still got tons of money for my birthday so I have ordered a new laptop from Dell (the 6000) and I got a sick deal. Don't know how I managed to stumble across it but with my dad's company code too, I pretty much committed daylight robbery.
I'm excited about Ivey. I figure if I play my cards right, I'll probably come out about $10,000 in the hole. Tuition is just under $20,000 plus casebooks/fees etc along with my regular living expenses. Fortunately my parents are giving me a ton of money and so at the end of my last two years I shouldn't be more than 10 grand down. Banks are throwing money at me. I am prequalified for up to $50,000 in loans at most banks. The drop-down list goes: "Regular undergraduate student, law student, graduate student, dentistry student, Richard Ivey HBA student, medical student..." kind of amusing.
My vacation will be pretty sweet. This is the first time I am legally allowed to drink there, which won't be too different from being there before, but will simply open up more options. Even better, my cousin Matt is single so no girlfriend around to drag down our partying. Relationships are the worst thing that can happen to having fun. On a more serious note though, I'm trying to set up meetings at universities in London and Oxford. I will also have to line up one day to get my national insurance number and set up a bank account.
I've started to read the book Freakonomics. All I can say is that if Economics was this interesting, I would have a different major right now.
In addition, I have come to a musical revelation of sorts. I'm sick of keeping the underground pulse. Bands that have talent will eventually sell out to the god-awful Edge, cough Bedouin cough. I'm sticking to my DMB and anything accoustic as the guitar practice continues.
later days
Work is going okay. I was the receptionist for a couple weeks and I actually liked it a lot. I didn't watch the clock every day or run out of things to do and have to pretend to be busy. I've got three weeks until my vacation. I'm supposed to be "cleaning up the K-drive" though I finished doing that in one of my first weeks here so I am just kicking back, enjoying the view. I wonder if anyone would notice if I snuck out onto the patio to get a tan...
My parents paid for my accident. I still got tons of money for my birthday so I have ordered a new laptop from Dell (the 6000) and I got a sick deal. Don't know how I managed to stumble across it but with my dad's company code too, I pretty much committed daylight robbery.
I'm excited about Ivey. I figure if I play my cards right, I'll probably come out about $10,000 in the hole. Tuition is just under $20,000 plus casebooks/fees etc along with my regular living expenses. Fortunately my parents are giving me a ton of money and so at the end of my last two years I shouldn't be more than 10 grand down. Banks are throwing money at me. I am prequalified for up to $50,000 in loans at most banks. The drop-down list goes: "Regular undergraduate student, law student, graduate student, dentistry student, Richard Ivey HBA student, medical student..." kind of amusing.
My vacation will be pretty sweet. This is the first time I am legally allowed to drink there, which won't be too different from being there before, but will simply open up more options. Even better, my cousin Matt is single so no girlfriend around to drag down our partying. Relationships are the worst thing that can happen to having fun. On a more serious note though, I'm trying to set up meetings at universities in London and Oxford. I will also have to line up one day to get my national insurance number and set up a bank account.
I've started to read the book Freakonomics. All I can say is that if Economics was this interesting, I would have a different major right now.
In addition, I have come to a musical revelation of sorts. I'm sick of keeping the underground pulse. Bands that have talent will eventually sell out to the god-awful Edge, cough Bedouin cough. I'm sticking to my DMB and anything accoustic as the guitar practice continues.
later days