I'm back!

Okay, okay, okay, so I know you all got a little scared there. I asked if anyone actually read the blog, and only two people replied. I know for sure that I have one full time reader (hi mum), so I shall rekindle the flames of writing creativity, and bang out some more posts. Later.

But for now, here's a blog that states what's pretty much obvious to almost anyone I studies with recently "...pretty much anything else is more absorbing than writing a 400-page Ph.D. thesis". It's true. PhD students will feign interest (to others, or themselves) in most thing in order to put off writing that concluding section that ties together the chapter. Or write that damn introduction that is on v1.17.

Hubris

It would appear that hubris, like energy, cannot be created or destroyed. Six months ago the world's financial markets were incredibly easy places to make money - anyone could throw a dart at the board and enjoy the upside. Many investors who did so told the rest of the world as much. Now, as markets slide, it's the slow and cautious tortoise (or the squirrels depending on you choice of fable) that are having the last laugh.

Maybe there is a lesson here, that excessive hubris coupled with an unfortunate turn of events is often accompanied by proportionate amounts of schadenfreude.

Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday to my blog...

I was going to write the lyrics for the whole song that we all know and love, but it appears that the are, as it has been rumoured, copyrighted. Technically, whenever you sing that song, you should pay royalties.

So I am not going to.

Anyhow, my blog is one year old. I promised in my first post that this might be the first of many - I have thus far posted 67 times. An overage of over one a week. Should I continue? Does anyone read it? Comments please...

Template

Blogger asked me to update my template, so I did - and promptly lost me all of my previous settings and links et cetera. I had to do a quick rescue and pull together what I could remember. I've altered the font and the link colours slightly, but hopefully it looks okay.

Revision is going okay, I have been trying to crack Econs this week. In a good way, the CFA has forced me to actually learn a lot of the stuff I skipped during my U/G studies. I never really mastered mid-point elasticities; I knew they existed, and could broadly explain them, and that was enough. However, I now have to do worked examples, and I suddenly realise that there was quite a lot of stuff I had not really mastered at U/G level that I need to know now.

Next week comes a personal favourite (not) - comparative advantage in the terms of trade. I never really knew that one, it was much like magicians trick to me. However, I have to crack it so no choice.

On a separate note, we tried to watch the Simpsons movie last night, but could not get a seat that did not involve detaching out head to see the screen, so we stayed in and watched Syriana. We did manage to watch Harry Potter last week - who would have thought that the order of the phoenix was two Lamb Bhunas and an onion bhaji? Maybe he should try something a little less spicy, and then he won't keep catching fire...