October 15, 2008

• So ... I've meant to make this post for awhile but haven't really gotten the chance too ... until now ....
  
  General Life Update:
  The holidays went well ... spent some much needed time with Eric .... cooked food .... didn't burn food .... ( can't say the same for my poor thumb ) ... had an all around good time and feel spiritually renewed enough to take on the new year ....
  
  So far I've made good progress on my Master's Thesis ... my advisor went over the annotated outline for the literature review and was impressed ... compliments always make you feel good I suppose .... I'm still concerned about this oral presentation that I have to do for Applied Social Psychology ... it just seems that the professor is wanting a high quality of an oral presentation that I don't think I'll be able to reach ... she said that we will be graded on (besides content) how engaging we are and our nonverbal cues .... and I just had my midterm in Psychopathology which I either aced or totally and completely bombed and I really don't leaving the exam without having a better sense of which it was ....
  
  On the Darker Side of Things:
  ... am I having a psychotic hallucination or is our government buying up large portions of the private sector?
  
  ... ok I can understand that something has to be done ...but isn't there something better that we could do? .. and I can see how that first bailout plan could be justified as an emergency / temporary thing and I can even see how some congress folk got bullied into passing it despite misgivings ... but is it just me or is this going a bit farther than should be tolerated by any wild stretch of the imagination?
  
  ... sure the government can "temporarily" buy up parts of the private sector ...but what's the guarantee that the government will eventually surrender these assets back to the private sector? ... well I suppose there is none .... and that is a problem, isn't it?
  
  .... nah ... its gotta be that I'm just having what we call in the field a "psychotic break" because if this were really happening folks would be a whole lot more freaked out than they are .... right?
  
  Well I suppose folks are freaked out ... but perhaps about the wrong thing ... yeah apparently the stock market has crashed ... or at least thats going word on the street from folks so panicked you'd think the sky was falling ... I must have missed the memo .... oh wait no sorry the market didn't crash ... no its actually gone up by quite a bit ... oops sorry... yeah you actually gotta pay attention to the news before you start a panic folks ... no don't sell all your stocks or withdraw all you money from the bank in a panic and actually cause the market to crash ..... that's what happened last time ... you'd think we would have learned something since then ...
  
  

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