Why I Love Georgia...

Mary Virginia Terry, receiving an honorary degree from the University of Georgia at the 2009 Spring Commencement. She with her late husband, C. Herman Terry, provided a gift to the business school of $6M in 1990, and the Terry College of Business was then named after the Terry family.

She has the most classy southern drawl and a warm, grandmotherly voice. Her speech was sincere and heart-felt, and she concluded by blowing a kiss to all of the graduates!

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Works

It's 10:02pm, and my day just started. My mouth burns and my stomach gurgles restlessly. Those wings again. And no malt tonight, they're out. "I'm in love with this soul, it's a meaning that I understand" runs through my broken headphones.

This day is almost over, I'll hope to be asleep by 11:00 tonight. But laundry needs to be done, the dishes grow impatient, and the FTTA reading list needs some attention. Another simple day; Work and dinner, then it's time to start the cycle again.

A fifty-five hour week requires eleven hour days, unless you want to work weekends. No sir! An eleven hour day means you arrive at nine (no since in coming earlier since India is still working until about then), and stay until 8. You can take an hour lunch break, if you want to stay until 9pm that evening. It is very glamorous.

I have special incentives. Overtime meals! My $16 dinner is covered by Diner's Club. It comes through as taxable compensation, but what do I care? My tax bracket is very understanding.

what makes me happy, pt.1:

My Morning Jacket - El Caporal
Rooftops and sunroofs
Paul Stuart
Thai food
Overtime pay
NY Times – Opinions
Thesauruses
Wilco - She’s a Jar
Summer lacrosse
Dimly lit coffee shops
Canon
CFO Magazine
gMail chat

The Man in the Arena

This is a speech given by Teddy Roosevelt at the Sorbonne in Paris, France on April 23, 1910. It was subsequently re-printed in his book Citizenship in a Republic. Here is a passage:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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Now we’re learning to turn to our spirit,
Now we’re learning to take Christ as life;
Now we’re learning to feed upon Jesus
And be freed from all struggling and strife.

favorite ties

Paul Stuart

#26 Manhattan

Stuff White People Like
I love this website. Here's a tip...

Another secret fact about white people, if you are in group setting and the topic of New York City comes up, find the highest ranking white person and say “oh, are you from New York?”

To them, this means you are calling them cultured, cool, and urban. They will respond with something like “oh, well, I’ve spent a lot of time there,” or “I lived there for three years.” You will have instantly become more popular than all other people in the group.

Comments from the Economist

Okay this one is funny. Sorry for the deluge of political content:

"Your editorial writers and others who say that the Obama administration will not be able to raise enough money to pay for its massive expansion of government are clearly wrong. When you consider a stimulus package that is designed to stimulate nothing but inflation and massive deficits in the proposed budget, it is easy to see the plan.

The current government must be counting on hyperinflation that will, in a short time, place all households in the over $250,000 income bracket. Imagine the spending possibilities for a government that collects 40% of everyone's income."

zippy died and we took her engine out, finally