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people pay a premium for goods that exhibit prized characteristics. I'm curious how a consensus is established about what these characteristics are. like the explanation for so many things, it's probably a combination of learned behavior and instinct, the exact proportions of these two ingredients depending on the person and the good in question ( Read more... )

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ever since I dropped out of ee 354 last spring, I've been followed by a shadowy fear lingering behind the scenes. 354 is a pre-requisite for 434 and, having dropped 354 last spring, the only way I could graduate this coming May would be to take 354 and 434 together, 354 acting as a co-requisite. throughout the summer and last fall I was comforted ( Read more... )

these past few days I've been eating out of habit, not out of hunger. a glance at the clock. a cursory check of short term memory: how long has it been since my mouth was occupied with food and my jaws occupied with the chewing motion? this sort of thing has happened before, I am not concerned ( Read more... )

seven eighths through. I'm hopeful that the prospect of graduating in may will motivate me to at least pass all four classes that remain. schedule for the spring ( Read more... )

the idea of working as an ambulance EMT is becoming more and more attractive. so much so that it's beginning to motivate me to get a driver's license. two things ( Read more... )

my poor financial management skills have been given more funds to play with; I've received another scholarship. my perplexing success in this domain makes me wish I'd started applying for free money much earlier in my college career ( Read more... )

I apologize in advance for the content of recent posts being mere summaries of what I've been doing. this one is not different.

we went out to the living room theater and saw let the right one in. best movie I've seen in a long time. if you haven't seen it yet, don't. wait till we can watch it together.

I recovered from a brief cold the day after ( Read more... )

I'm staying with pat, suzette, avtar, savage, and dimn, the latter two being cats. it is a good life. today I finished the poor mouth, subtitled a bad story about the hard life. it's by the author of at swim-two-birds and was checked out by pat at my recommendation when we were at the library, this library's copy of the second book not being shelf ( Read more... )