Fall 2

Sitting here in the balcony of my apartment on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon after talking to my friends in Chicago and New York, I finally find myself at peace with my decision. 3 days of conflict, soul searching and excruciatingly painful analysis seems to have been worth it. The line from my friend that stays with me is..."Dude, it's f'ing 35 degrees here". Ah, not for me, that kind of nonsense. So for the weather and about 27 other well thought out (I would like to think) reasons, I chose DC as the city where I will start my consulting career. A fun weekend exploring the museums by day and getting wasted by night (the patrons and bouncers of a certain club on F and 9th, can probably attest to that) further convinced me that I had made the right choice.

The new school term started on Thursday but I'm still in vacation mode. It was a minor shock to my system when I heard people setting up team meetings for the weekend. Um...didn't we just finish that crap?! The joys of a 6 week term.... The good news is that I'm finally taking a course that I'm thoroughly excited about. It's taught by a guy from MIT and one of the official text books is Freakonomics. Need I say more?

Adding to the joys of Fall 2 is the fact that I will have the benefit of having 2 fully functional hands (easy boy, lets not jinx it), which will make me a lot more efficient. The downside of course is that with the cast coming off, I've lost a great conversation piece and ice breaker....but it's worth it. Now I need to make sure I stay in one piece for my Barcelona trip next term. About a week ago, I informed the good people at ESCADE, that MJ shall soon be leaving the comforts of Durham to grace the shores of Barcelona for 6 weeks starting Jan. I'm pretty excited about that but just learned about some annoying immigration issues that have popped up. Hopefully I'll figure that out before end of term.

So I think I've procrastinated long enough. Time to go figure out how I want to embarrass myself at the Halloween party tonight (how do I always get myself into this shit?!)