okay- so i guess the biggest topics of the day are north korea, sotomayor, and something else i'm sure. i'll get to those all in due time. for now- quick update on personal life stuff.
um- finished first year of the program. awesome. now i can take classes i actually want to take. no more classes hiding behind names like "international business environment" which is code word for macroecon. thankfully. now i get to take classes like mergers & acquisitions, global logistics, private equity and venture capital, etc. oh- and law for managers and white collar crime. i need one or two easy ones- don't judge! as i just alluded to two paragraphs ago, i'm headed overseas on july 1. i'm going to be at oxford university (yes, the stuffy english one) to participate in a 7 week specialized study program. i figure it looks good on the old resume. the summer "internship" at the smithsonian has gone well. lots of work and lots to do, but i mostly finished what i needed to. nice 73 page document. most i've ever written so far. good stuff, let me tell ya.
other than that, i've been focusing on my biking and running in an effort to pull off some sort of triathlon event in the fall. oh wait- i haven't even added the swimming portion yet. that'll come when i'm over in oxford without my bike. i think. speaking of bikes- i got tackled/pulled off my bike last week by a pedestrian. have no clue why this man did it, and there's a lot more to the story than that- but that's the shortened version. i was going through a light at about 20mph and the next thing i know i'm being taken down. i will have some pretty rad scarring on my leg at least from the serious road rash. my rear end has finally decided to let me sit down it, so that's nice too.
okay- what are my thoughts on sotomayor? honestly, i'm sick of both sides posturing about how she's either racist or she's "empathetic." if you know me, you know i could give to shits about how someone "feels" about the law. the law is the law- if you break it, you're deserving of punishment. none of this bullshit about "well let's look at their background" or "i will look at it from the perspective of how i grew up" etc. that's such horseshit and it's one of the reasons other countries think of our law and order system as a joke.
north korea? bomb em. i'm sorry- i can't read another article about "well, they've built these missles, they're aiming them at us, but we just don't know what their intentions are." are you kidding me? what the hell?!? that's pretty much the same as being held at gunpoint with a man talking about maybe taking your money and you trying to reason with your wife (also being held at gunpoint) "well honey, let's not be too rash, we don't know what his intentions are." yes you do- if his intention wasn't to rob you, he wouldn't be holding a gun to your head. damnit people! wake the hell up!!
and another thing. since when has a sitting president ever gone on a world tour and apologized for our actions. i hate this man. it's not a matter of dislike. it's way past that. i tried, for about 1 minute, to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. but i can't. i wonder if he thought of that apology when he was at his broadway show with his wife.
sigh. is it time for oxford yet?
