I've been looking over the law schools here and it looks like if I was going to do it I'd have to win the lottery or take on about 100,000 dollars in debt. So, I've been looking into online law programs. I'm not looking for anything prestigious just something that will allow me to pass the bar. Meanwhile, I'm stuck here in this strange middle eastern coffee shop that happens to have free wireless, and be right next to the Damon L stop. I'm working down on LaSalle St. They call it the LaSalle Canyon. During the day it can be pretty depressing, not a spot of green to be found, but at night it all turns around and becomes pretty damn beautiful.
Hey, listen to this, I bought a book today. I know yer thinkin' "oh, probably that Jon Stewart/Daily Show book" and while I was really itchin' to buy that book, instead I bought a book on Finance. This stock stuff is pretty interesting, it's all a big horse race, yet you don't come home with as much egg on yer mug when you lose.
I looked up Steve Jobs' Apple holdings today. The man hold 5,000,002 shares, a controlling interest. I know that might not be too exciting or anything, but the interesting thing is that 5,000,001 of those shares are book shares (meaning they all exist electronically) and he has 1 that is actually a certificate stock (a stock certificate that you can hold in yer greasy little hands). My guessing is he has this little bugger framed and hangin' on the wall of his office. Just a little insight into the one business man that I truly idolize (you can't get much cooler than ownin' Apple and Pixar).
But don't think this whole thing is a'gettin' to my head, cause I'm as poor as a piss ant, sleeping on a nasty couch every night, and just waiting to bounce another check. I'm fightin' ta keep my head above the water. The other thing gettin' my goat is that I can't see my boy. I miss the hell out of that bastard (he is a bastard, technically, and I, well, I'm a bastard subjectively). He doesn't like talkin' on the phone much. I can only get a, "hi", a "bye", and if I'm really good a, "I love you." Man, it hurts, but I'm doin' it fer him. This wy if he wants he could go to Savannah School of Art, Milwaukee School of Art and Design, or good old Harvard (my favorite of the Ivys, University of Chicago a close second, I don't know if that one is considered Ivy). Well, I'll just have to make the most out of all the time I'm with him.
As for fun, there's plenty around, but I don't have the time, energy, or money to chase it around. I just go back to the hovel, watch sum tv and go to sleep around ten. Well, like I said before, I don't have internet access at all times like I use to, so my blogging will be sporadic, but it will probably also be long. Talk to ya guys soon.
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My clock radio goes off at 7:45 a.m. to this talk radio show by two guys named Bob and Dave. They talk politics, sports, whatever. Today, I got a heavy dose of bad news -- that our country is going into serious debt and that our grandkids will be paying it off. In the meantime, I'm having to cancel magazine subscriptions, get only the most basic of cable TV, and cut back on eating out which is a big custom in the Deep South. I hear you Matt, it's tough out there. I'm nearly finished paying off for my time at the University of Alabama and a few other odds I'll be paying off until 2007 or thereabouts. As for grad school, well, I seriously considered moving to New Mexico and was looking at UNM in Albuquerque. I was at the campus and liked what I saw. But I've since put that on the backburner. I would incur way too much debt.
It's kind of depressing, really. But most people I talk to, many college-educated, are struggling to make it. It's a real bear out there.
Matt(s)
Yeah, I'm a Pakaderm of sorts. I was there for a semester in Spring 1998. I had to get that cursed math class done and so I moved into an apt. in Tuscaloosa and got 'er done. That was right after I moved from Siloam Springs. I had a pretty good time in Tuscaloosa. Met some pretty cool folks and hung out a lot at the Crimson Cafe, a cool coffeehouse on the main drag. My younger brother James lives there now and is a English lit grad student. So now all three of us siblings have attended and/or graduated from Univ. of Alabama. Who'd a thunk it?
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