Anyway, let me catch you up on what has happened since August, 2004:
- So, I did end up going to New York. I graduated from Columbia May 2005 (wtf?) and decieded to continue my studies to the Ph.D level (2x wtf??) so I moved down to Atlanta, GA (3x wtf?!?!?!) where am going to school now. Actually, I just finished finals of my 2nd semester last week. (omg!!!)
- I thought I was broke when I worked for the government, but now I see that I was as rich as Minos. Being a graduate student is a whole other plane of poverty.
- That’s not true. By virtue of the fact that I’m an American, I’m richer than most of the world. I’m not bragging, I’m living with a guilt of being (relatively) spoiled rotten.
- President Bush got reelected. A Yale economics Professor, Ray Fair, told me he would six weeks before the election, based on the results from his econometric model. Sometime in early 2006 the Vice President shot a 78-year old man in the face with a shotgun.
- Pope John Paul II died in 2005, and we got a new pope, Benedict XVI, a German who at one point was in the Hitler youth movement (like the rest of the country). I’m surprised the anti-Catholics haven’t played on that more, but I guess they have more sense.
- OK, so there’s this thing called an iPod now. It’s basically a portable mp3 player, except they’re everywhere. Like a cell phone, I never would have thought I needed one, but now it is an indispensable part of my life. The iPod Nano I got was in the $200 range, and so of course the only reason I have it is because it was a gift from the brothers. Also, cameras on cell phones are almost (I wanted to say “always”) a standard feature now. Who thought to put those two together? Still, I always keep mine on hand in case there’s an assassination that occurs, and I’m the one person who steps forward with my camera-phone evidence to clear the senator’s son.
- In 2004 a huge tsunami hit most points of the Indian Ocean, something over 100,000 died, mostly in Indonesia. In 2005, a hurricane (Katrina) put some parts of New Orleans under twenty feet of water!
- There still isn’t peace in the Middle East.
- Britney Spears had a baby with her sleaze-ball husband K-Fed with one on the way. Tom Cruise knocked up Joey from Dawson’s Creek, and they just had one. A good film about gay coybows got the shaft the most recent Academy Awards.
- The Red Socks finally won a World Series….so much for the curse.
- In the latest Harry Potter book, Dumbledore was killed by Snape. As far as I'm concerned, Dumbledore has been dead since Richard Harris passed. Sign. I'm guessing the literary Dumbledore comes back as a zombie.
Um, a lot of other stuff happened, but I probably should just direct you to better sources…
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