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July 18, 2006 ( life )
I'm really loving my new living situation -- despite it's many, many flaws, overall it gives me a lot more personal freedom (BTW - this is a general open invitation to crash at my place in DC now). And the porch! Woooooo porch! It's great to sit on it and watch the fireflies in the yard, or the occasional summer storm roll down.
Work has been really difficult the past few weeks. I'm caught between an impending workshop and the contractor putting the registration system together, and am reminded why I hate managing people, as they so rarely live up to my expectations, at least in business situations. In social situations, they generally surpass my wildest dreams and make me feel inadequate, but that's an entirely different story. But even on that thread, I've been doing better of recent.
Despite some rocky/stressy times at work and in life, I've been overall in a good mood. I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still at Screen on the Green with some other grad students last night (the origination of "klatu barata nictu"!!) and have somehow found myself busier than when I was in school. Generally, this is a good thing, tho.
I've read a collection of Mieville short stories (Looking for Jake), and Freakonomics. I'm currently reading The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' misadventures in the tropics, which, as
"... many readers have asked if my statement in the original prologue that “my employer ... the World Bank ... encourages gadflies like me to exercise intellectual freedom” was really accurate. Well almost. It should be modified to “the World Bank ... encourages gadflies like me to find another job."
I was underimpressed by Freakonomics. Sure, some interesting points, but it read more like the string of smaller articles and publications it grew out of than any cohesive idea. To be fair, the authors stated that this was the case many times, but still. It left me unfulfilled.
Posted by griffjon at July 18, 2006 10:05 PM
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Have you read Confessions of an Economic Hitman? You might like that.
Cheers!
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at July 19, 2006 12:14 PM
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