Guess what I just spent $933.63 on? If you answered "books," you are correct.

A few books I now own:

Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics
The Logic of Causal Order
Causal Modeling
Applied Regression
Interpreting and Using Regression

If this is what a political science Ph.D. program is like, I can't imagine the horrors of an actual mathematics Ph.D. program.

It's a bit after 10 am and I'm already showered and reading the news while munching on a banana. And I feel like I slept in. Sleep schedule fix: check.

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My full name is an anagram for "a vehement chili stew," which suddenly sounds kind of tasty.

My new favorite article

Today I had to click "alum" before logging into my undergrad email account. It was weird.

Pardon my manners, but not since Strom Thurmond's death on June 26, 2003, have I been so pleased to see that a fellow human being had died: Good riddance Jesse Helms, you remarkable piece of shit. It's like the best July 4th ever.

Wherein I use my Live Journal as a bookmarks folder:

"What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the last 25 years?," New York Times

A Sichuan cookbook I kind of want to buy.

nyc_for_free: Less-than-desirable living situation & no desire for social activity; where to go?

Jay-Z at Glastonbury is oddly impressive in some pop cultural sense...especially starting at around 3:18:

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Background to the Oasis thing here.