This is the life

It turns out that for the first two weeks of this semester I get to have the most chill school schedule I've ever had. Today I had one class, at 5pm. It went till 9:15, and then we went out to a jazz bar for drinks and arguments about economic growth maybe isn't always such a great thing once you reach a certain level of development (i.e. Europe vs. the United States). I found myself on the liberal (meaning open markets, free trade, growth is always good) side this time, which was kind of odd. But at 25, I'm old compared to these people. I don't have time to mess around with bullshit ideals! Actually, it was interesting, and pretty funny how it came up in class w/the professor (not worth bothering you with it though, it's only for funny for econ nerds like us).

Yes, I am now a serious econ nerd. At least with these people I sit around drinking beer and cracking jokes about endogeneity and technology frontiers and the like.

But back to my awesome schedule: I don't have class tomorrow! Actually I do, but it's at 8 am and it's in a big lecture hall and they of course don't take attendance. I got there at 9:30 am the first day of class. But now we have a system worked out where one person promises to go each week and they pass their notes to the rest of us. Sweet!

Wednesday is a little lamer, with another 8am class, then another at 7:15pm. Actually, that's seriously lame. I much prefer blocks of classes.

Thursday, another morning and night class, and Friday nothing before noon. I actually didn't plan it this way, it just worked out. And really I'll have more classes later, so I'm not a total slacker. Dunno why they set things up like this so we have a huge load in May and June but a light March. Oh well.

In other news, I may be going to Glasgow to meet my uncle and his wife for his birthday (April 14) and mine (the next day). And then Kristina is going to Latvia for a week or two in May, so I'm definitely going to meet her out there.

But now it's off to bed. And no, I still don't know if I'll be in Latin America next year or not. India is calling to me ...