We are now entering a fourth year of approximately 10% unemployment. For those of you who haven't heard the good news, the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4% (seasonally adjusted) in december. I'm a big fan of keeping seasonal and nonseasonal adjustments explicit, and after digging through the bls relevant reports, I found out that the unadjusted ( Read more... )

" I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself the king of infinite space were it not that I have bad dreams"

Still in Ann Arbor, still in Ann Arbor, still in Ann Arbor, still in Ann Arbor, still in Ann Arbor,

You know how that goes, my life is moving way too slowly. I'm moving out in fourteen days, but that seems almost like an eternity, and is a substantial period to say the least. This comic sums up allot of my thoughts about life. Attachment, ( Read more... )

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I'd much rather be writing my topology paper, than my labor economics paper, but the labor economics paper is easier to write when I'm tired... this creates complications since when I'm tired is also when I have no willpower ( Read more... )

I need to be angsty again. Soon, I'm have to ask someone out, because I feel like inaction is clearly non-optimal. My motivation is clearly down and I think that this decline is somewhere between 25-60% explained by romantic inactivity. A quick probe of my emotions tells me that I wouldn't mind being rejected by someone (the likeliest outcome ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted last... it's possible that the situation in the last post was completely false... which shows that I can, at times, be obsessively paranoid about making social faults. But that's not why I'm posting here. Instead I feel that having read a great deal (given how little I read) for the past few weeks, I need to ( Read more... )

Alright, so I was hanging out with steve discussing this modern peice, as you know, I hate most of this modern music, and see it as responsible for instigating the decline of popular music. Of course, these musicians, the people who go into music insist on writing music that they enjoy themselves... but anyway, while I was listening to this peice ( Read more... )

I don't think I'm going to make it through college, this is unfortunate, but I've just completely lost my work ethic, creating all of these zhivago blogs will be difficult, but the most difficult part is that I only partially remember parts of the story and have been completely unable to start working on anything because I don't know where to ( Read more... )

So, here I am, at nine thirty in the morning, trying to do something to put off working on my rough draft of my publich choice thesis paper, which I promised I would email to my professor in the next two and a half hours. (I did this because I wanted a sunday deadline, to force me to work on it on saturday, when I didn't have a bunch of stuff to ( Read more... )