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Passport, Plane tickets, Sunscreen, Shorts…

Looks like we’re ready to go. Be back in a little under a week… maybe even with pictures.

Well, there’s only one paper left. The past two papers had certain unforeseen circumstances which caused them to be entirely sub-par (I detest NIU’s computer network). Why can’t I simply write one good paper before I’m done with the whole undergraduate experience? (My satisfaction and other’s satisfaction with the papers are two entirely separate things, of course - I have been suggested for awards, after all…) Ah well, this is merely practice for when the papers become the break.

Next paper up: “Positivism, Art, Nietzsche, and Problems of Social Science.” This should, at least, be an interesting read. Beyond that, three finals, and they’re apparently letting me out these doors…

…and watching me walk right back in.

Free Lecture Series!

Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that the seminar review committee has selected you from among more than 2,000 applicants to attend the Workshop in Experimental Economics at Bryn Mawr College, July 10-14, 2006. This is a unique opport unity to study social and economic behavior using a cutting-edge methodology recently recognized by the Nobel Prize in Economic Science. As this seminar is co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), you will actually participate in classroom economic experiments conducted by leading experts in this new field.

Perfect… except June 16 - August 7 is Calc II, finally. Is the integration of these two opportunities possible? (Yes, this is what passes for a math joke.) Especially considering that it would mean missing 1/7 of CalcII, and at a somewhat insanely accelerated pace.

I also have to move somewhere around the time I get back, but before the week of Calc finals, and give myself enough time to catch up on the Calc and prepare to move the massive amounts of junk that I have accumulated over the years. Would anyone be interested in a 34″ Samsung CRT HDTV?

The seminar series is apparently to “discuss the methods developed by the 2002 Nobel memorial prize winner Vernon L. Smith.” Ah, Behavioral Economics. I suppose it’s safe to say that the GMU department is on the rise.

It is over. Zacarias Moussaoui is officially sentenced to life in prison without the possiblity of parole. A fitting end.

One has to appreciate the words of Judge Leonie Brinkema as he quoted one of the Bards: “You came here to be a martyr and die in a great big bang of glory, but to paraphrase the poet T.S. Eliot, instead you will die with a whimper.”

Here, someone understands that part of the soul which we moderns have the most issues with: spirit. Until we understand spiritedness again, modernity will have many problems understanding the range of human behavior. It is no mere passion, this spiritedness, after all.