A dark, lonely Monday night...

This is the scene at 6pm tonight, outside a lecture room, waiting to have an exam. My first exam in 6 1/2 years. I got out of the room at 8.50pm.

Despite being a bit distracted (in thought and deed) and not always having motivation to study, I was satisfied and found that I had done enough study and thinking about the subject. So yes, it went pretty well I think (but no promises about what mark I'll get). I just finished the first subject of my post graduate course :)

Good to have it out of the way so I can concentrate on... other things... for the next week and a bit.

And at least it didn't start raining until after I got home and was relaxing in front of Futurama :)

indecisive because I'm not emotional enough?

I like Ross Gittens. It could be partly because I'm discovering that economics can be interesting and he explains concepts well. He also looks at things from a more human perspective rather than a purely rational one (as in economic rationalism). This article is an example of that.

But the reason I'm putting it here is because of something he mentions briefly. I seem to have a bit of a reputation for indecisiveness. Yeah, OK, it's often true, I'll admit. But it's not that I can't make decisions. It's more that I'm not good at making random ones. I need to have a certain amount of information before I can decide that option A is better than option B. If I don't have enough information, what can I do?

I also have a reputation for not being very emotional. Hmm... yes and no... It's true that I have a preference for rationality. It's true I don't have extremes and there are a lot of things that won't affect me very much. But I definitely have emotions (you'll be pleased to know) and I can be emotional. I even make emotional decisions sometimes. But if you put me on the scale from emotional to rational I'm definitely placed to one side...

So, it turns out that these things might be linked. If I'm indecisive about something it could just be because I can't easily make an emotional decision about it.