butter the soul

"those funky days are back again."

obama is set to take on wall street. we'll see. he's listening to paul volcker, which is a good sign. i know that loss in massachusetts had to awaken him to the fact that we are pissed about wall street banking while the rest of us are floundering when the caused they shit in the first place. hopefully, he'll nail them.

i'm set up to take the audit part of the cpa test again in february. i'm going to nail it. i feel it this time. last time was like rocky I, when he battled apollo to a draw/loss, with apollo retaining the title. he felt like he won even though he lost. in rocky II, he fought hard and trained hard and he took apollo to the last round and knocked him out. that's what i'm going to do.

"this is the last round."

everything can be related to rocky. everything.

i think ur a contra

another sign that the world is ending: vampire weekend's newly released "contra" is the number one selling album in the country.

what? yes. it's true. i have sources.

it's actually a really good album. couple that with the new spoon album and it's been a pleasant start to 2010 as far as music goes.

what is horchata though? this is what it is.

is love forever?

it's interesting i found this article yesterday. i've since found three other articles saying that january 19th, january 24th and january 26th are the most depressing days of the year. funny how they all occur in january. i found it particularly interesting because yesterday was the 15 year anniversary of my sister's death. i turned 30 last year, so i have now lived half my life without my sister. i don't really remember what it's like to have a sibling, someone who you grew up and lived with. the last thing i ever said to my sister was not verbal, but i laughed at something she said. i had been stuck on some joke for some time and she took the joke and used it for herself and it made me laugh. and that was it. she was gone. the next day. the only reason time heals all wounds is because there are tiny battles everyday that help you forget that you're missing something so bad. there are tiny hurdles and games to be played every day. the distance is what heals. and it doesn't heal completely. ever. and in some ways, it shouldn't. there should always be a scar there. otherwise, you might completely forget. and i've already forgotten enough.

spoon's new album is out today.

elizabeth warren is out fighting today. love her.

a bank levy will not stop the doomsday cycle.

written in reverse

"i'm writing this to you in reverse."

honey in the sun

so the gala was pretty sweet. my wife went nuts at the silent auction and bid for a craig biggio signed baseball, that we won, and dance lessons, that we won also. so the good comes with the bad. but as far as galas go, i enjoyed it. my wife got dressed up like she was the wife of a diplomat and looked amazing. i broke out the old suit and dusted it off and after i made some alterations to the pants, (apparently, i've put on an inch since i got married) i was ready to go. there were some big wigs there, but not as many as i expected. the live auction was lackluster because apparently wall street greed leaves all of us with no money, even the big wigs. but all in all, i would totally go again.

now it's back to the real world and study, study, study.