New Dollar Coin

The new dollar coin is in circulation. I really hope it catches on! Using coins instead of paper dollars would be so much more convenient. And if this one catches on, it would pave the way for a $2 coin, which would be awesome on so many levels.

Big, big sky

Well, with the majority of midterms behind me (except for one) the week is finally beginning to slow down a bit - although there's no shortage of stuff to do. I have a second internship interview on Thursday via phone, and of course my Econ midterm, which I will be cramming for tonight and all day tomorrow. Livin' the dream, people, just livin' the dream.

I have to say that as much as I'm getting absolutely sick of Arizona, I will miss this amazing desert sky. It's so big. And the sunsets are just incredible, night after night. I'm continually amazed by the colors in the sky and each time I see a new formation of clouds that are reflecting colors I didn't even know existed, I always find myself thinking, "I wish I could just make it stay there, forever." It's gone far too quickly.

"I was distracted by so much beauty ... I could have gazed at the fluttering mosaic all afternoon. It was captivating, and soothing, and intriguing - all the things that gentle, intimate, flowing beauty offers ... those of you who have had this experience will know what I mean, when in a crowd of people one face stands out to you almost to say look at me, or when you are reading a passage and one sentence causes you to stop and linger while all the rest of the page fades into the background but for that phrase ... A kiss from God. A love note."
-John Eldredge, The Way of the Wild Heart

Quote of the Day

"For university hipsters, there is nothing more pathetic than taking business courses. My friends and I were above that. In our classes, we studied literature and unglazed pottery. We were 'seeking, questing, growing.' It did not occur to us that the frat-pack dolts and the tri-delt tweedies hurrying to get to Econ 101 on time in their square fashion were the REAL intellectuals. We never realized that grappling with the concept of aggregate supply and demand was more challenging than writing a paper about the effects of cool jazz on the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe ... Business majors intended to - and it was a loaded phrase in those days - "make money." And they were going to do this even if it involved some activity that wasn't a bit artistic, such as running IBM. We artsy types would have been shocked if anybody had told us - and nobody had the nerve - that making money was creative. And we would have been TRULY shocked to learn that a fundemental principle of economics - that wealth is created when assets are moved from lower to higher-valued uses - is the root of ALL creativity, be it artsy, IBM-sy, or whatever."
-P.J. O'Rourke, "Eat the Rich."

Raincatcher

A short story I'm writing, piece by piece.

Scottsdale's a weird town.

Last night we all went to a wine bar in Scottsdale to celebrate Amber's birthday. It was real swanky and we got all dressed up, Scottsdale-style. Scottsdale is such a weird town. On the way there, there was a biker bar on one side of the street and a trendy RA sushi bar on the other. The wine was good and so were the appetizers.

I also got an email yesterday from another firm from the career fair that wants to interview me next Thursday. I won't name any names, but I will tell you all that it's an energy company. It's going to make things interesting with the other position because they'll probably call me by Thursday to either deny or offer me the position and now there's a whole new interview in the mix. Still, it's probably good to not have all the eggs in one basket (although I still think it's a pretty darn good basket).

Having (finally) reached a much-needed weekend, I don't have much time to enjoy it. I have a ton of crap to do, and it's important that I get totally caught up because I cannot afford to fall behind. So many projects all starting, so many tests coming up....and all I wanna do is sit in here and watch episodes of LOST all day.

Sigh.

Quote of the Day

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

The Interview

How'd the interview go, you ask? It went something like this: