Studies

Bart: Look at me, I'm a grad student. I'm 30 years old and I made $600 last year.
Marge: Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They've just made a terrible life choice.

Yes, I am technically a 30 year old grad student.

This is old news, and I meant to write about it closer to when it started, but I'm currently studing development studies at Sydney Uni. I tried to enrol in the Masters but they wouldn't let me. They did, however, like me enough to let me start with the Graduate Certificate (if I go well enough - prove myself - I'll be able to transfer to the masters). I was going to do the grad. cert. in one year, doing two subjects each semester, but I've already dropped a subject...

What I'm learning is all very new and all very intersting and I'll hopefully try to write about some of it. Anybody out there know much about economic theory? Or can tell me much about the relationship between the US and China now that the US is starting to impose countervailing duties on certain imports from China? (I'm kind of doing an assignment on that one.)

Honeymoon Destination Guessing Competition - Prizes!

In 3 months Katrina and I will be going on a holiday :)

Can you guess where that might be? I'm going to avoid giving clues, as much as I can, in case I give too much away. So feel free to exert you powers of educated guessing. What is likely? What is realistic? What is appropriate? What isn't? It's a big world...

And if you guess correctly, or at least most correctly, you will get a prize. Yes, you read right - there will be a winner and the winner will get a prize. This is likely to be something from where ever we end up to prove that we were there.

So, start putting your thoughts in the comments. If this works I'll probably post updates on the main page.

Post TWZ activity

I seemed to have passed through the Three Week Zone (thanks James) relatively unscathed. In fact it has now been four weeks since I proposed and although there will always be doubts at the back of my mind they seem to be staying there. In the week since emerging from the TWZ a fair bit has been organised...

It seems that a lot of people think that three or so months is not enough time to organise a wedding. That makes sense if you are trying to find the right reception venue and the places you want are booked out. Well, we had already settled on a date because it fitted in with uni holidays and a few other things. Then last weekend Katrina's parents went to look at a few places. On Monday we were taken to their first choice which is perfect for a range of reasons. We loved it. Anyway, a couple of days later it was booked :)

We also had to think about booking some sort of holiday to have after the wedding. It's such a big world - what should we do? Well, several things came together and key things have been booked. We'll be starting a Honeymoon Destination Guessing Competition soon...

Closer to hand, we have also sorted out plans for the engagement party. (Just need to sort out invitations. We have connections for the printing of them which makes that part easy. The harder part is working out the list...)

Three points for the moment but these are fairly key things so we think we're doing well.

Any married people reading this? If you would like to give any advice of what else to keep in mind that would be good too :)

happy eater

Easter

Good article on what Easter is about and why it's offensive.