Another Fat Tuesday.

Oh yeah. Sunday was my birthday and I got a cold. I did get a badass cake though.

I'll share something that gave me a good laugh yesterday (and gave me nightmares last night).
The Fat Tuesday tradition of the cake with the baby inside. People cut pieces of the cake until someone gets the baby. That creepy wierd baby.

Well, at my previous employment, I suppose I got the baby. (I coulda sworn it was another guy). Nonetheless, my old coworkers decided to mail it to me with some best wishes...

The letter showed up... no baby. There was a hole in the letter and the envelope that looked like a mouse got to it.

The baby chewed its way out of the letter.

Does anyone understand what this means??? There is a rabid plastic king cake baby loose in Oklahoma City. Watch yourselves.

Till next time.

Apparently I have issues with ethics.

Two words that bring back the fondest memories for most people.

Field Trip.

I just got an email from the University to clear my schedule for two Saturdays late in the semester because a class that I'm taking is going to forego class two evenings during the semester for weekend field trips. FIELD TRIPS!!! My last field trip was during freshman year in Geology (my 10:30 MWF class) in fall of 1998. Yes, this is the kind of historical memory that a field trip renders upon my head. I couldn't tell you crap about any of the classes I took freshman year. I can tell you that there is quicksand in the Arbuckles, that the Arbuckle mountains were formed in the Precambrian era and have a beautiful mix of granite, sandstone, and limestone, and that I fell asleep in the bus on the way back because we had to leave at 7am that day (I probably had fallen asleep two hours before).







Life altering. Thats what a field trip is.




Ethics midterm down, Derivatives to go.


Hurray Arbuckles!
Huzzah Field Trip!

Till next time.

Let's hear it for the 'dents.

Another weekend comes crawling to an end... or does it???

Thanks to the government and their goal of enjoying a holiday 10 out of the 12 months, I get tomorrow off (the financial markets are also on holiday). Thanks presidents.

Pretty lazy weekend, I've got two midterms this week. Been working on a delicious mix of Derivatives and Business Ethics.
"I choose Business Ethics".


I've long had a problem with attention span. A 2000 page Business Law book in front of me is one of the many catalysts to this problem. I think that I've found the answer I've been looking for... NASCAR. Popped on the Daytona 500 (with very low volume, the commentary is enough to make you drink, and I'm not sponsored by Budweiser), and studied all afternoon. There were seven or eight cautions and it ended early for bad weather. Concentration is a lot easier when the only distractions are car wrecks. Congrats to Kenseth.

I think I'm going to go make hamburgers.

Till next time.

Friday the 13th

Ah the day before Valentines, time for some traditional romance.

Went to Bricktown, OKC this evening for Earl's BBQ and some horror films.

Coraline and Friday the 13th. Double feature. The Mrs and I happen to do these once a year or so, this was our night. There were more adults watching the PG rated animated than there were in the crowded R rated horror film.



Someone is going to die at the end?









It was 70 degrees today at lunch. Wonderful for mid-February. I know that there's a front coming in today so I throw on a sweatshirt before heading out. I'm amazed at what people will wear when its 34 out and the windchill is in the high teens.
As Mrs and I are standing shivering, a young woman comes shuffling by holding her dress down (and up) and navigating the sidewalks in her heels. I note that the only women who would be out wearing hardly anything after a cold snap sets in are those who are serious about their goals for the evening. The Mrs shifts her four layers around her face to look at me blankly and I'm pretty sure that the conversation just got away from me. Ah romance.

Till next time.

It has begun...

I work. I've been in Financial Services for five years. I've grown up watching ticker symbols as soon as I inherited my first stock at a young age. I saved up half of all my money from mowing lawns and babysitting growing up and bought into my first IPO. Two years later the company declared bankruptcy... and yet I still work in this business.

I learn. I'm a Sooner. I got my undergraduate in Finance and Marketing and after working for a couple of years decided to go back for my Masters at night down in Norman. This semester will be my last as I'll get my MBA with emphases in Corporate Finance and Risk Management. It has taken me three years, and I can't wait for it to be over.

I've toyed with the idea of starting a blog since I first got into college. I fear the blog would've taken quite a turn to the dull once I left. However, a person with a sense of humour will find the interesting in everything.

My goal for this blog is to speak freely about whatever I'm thinking. Some blogs have themes, some are journals, some are places for opinion. I am a person that loves a variety of things and promise that my imagination is still long for this world.

Till next time.