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My semester was salvageable! My last grade came in, so now it looks like this: B Legal Drafting, B- Crim law, A Con law 2, A- Administrative Law (last grade posted - 6 weeks after the exam). I had a term 3.30 (up from last term's 3.20) raising my cum to 3.20. That might nudge me more securely to the top third of the class, but not much higher. It's not the horrorshow I was fearing!
In other boring news - yesterday I reviewed the historical performance of all my Invesco/AIG funds. Some had consolidated, but the overall return was about -50%, that's $13,000 reduced $6,500 in 5 years. I compared their small cap and tech funds to the small cap and tech markets, where my private investments are up 6% in 3 months, they fell 3.5%. Similar funds with Janus are up slightly. It's a locked-in loss, but they were charging fees, losing money, and never paid back for the scandals in which they were caught market timing to the advantage of their large clients at the expense of their small clients (me). The lawyers made a fortune, no one was punished, but the investors were screwed. I'm taking my losses and running - they will have to be made back with my own research (or dumb luck). My lotto ticket lost too.
On my list over the past couple of days there are a bunch of posts and quotes from girls who like their men...manly. Tall, rugged, independent, achieving, successful...and all those women are single and/or unhappy with their men. My advice to you would be the same as I give to guys that want slutty big-titted females - think it through. Unkempt, driven, insensitive jackasses are lousy dating material for women, just like moronic whores aren't able to satisfy men. Take each trait you blink at, and think about what that would mean in a relationship. If you must be ruled by your fetish then that's your problem, but don't be ignorant as to why you're unhappy. Written with the bias of a short girly-boy who keeps trying to "fix" people
from http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050623/photos_sc/mdf590777
A Hyalinobatrachium sp frog is shown in an herpetologist lab in this undated photo taken in Quito, Ecuador. Epibatidine -- the chemical which paralyzed and killed enemies of the Indians in what is now Ecuador -- has been isolated to produce a pain killer 200 times more powerful than morphine, but without that drug's addictive and toxic side effects. (Stringer/Reuters)
In other boring news - yesterday I reviewed the historical performance of all my Invesco/AIG funds. Some had consolidated, but the overall return was about -50%, that's $13,000 reduced $6,500 in 5 years. I compared their small cap and tech funds to the small cap and tech markets, where my private investments are up 6% in 3 months, they fell 3.5%. Similar funds with Janus are up slightly. It's a locked-in loss, but they were charging fees, losing money, and never paid back for the scandals in which they were caught market timing to the advantage of their large clients at the expense of their small clients (me). The lawyers made a fortune, no one was punished, but the investors were screwed. I'm taking my losses and running - they will have to be made back with my own research (or dumb luck). My lotto ticket lost too.
On my list over the past couple of days there are a bunch of posts and quotes from girls who like their men...manly. Tall, rugged, independent, achieving, successful...and all those women are single and/or unhappy with their men. My advice to you would be the same as I give to guys that want slutty big-titted females - think it through. Unkempt, driven, insensitive jackasses are lousy dating material for women, just like moronic whores aren't able to satisfy men. Take each trait you blink at, and think about what that would mean in a relationship. If you must be ruled by your fetish then that's your problem, but don't be ignorant as to why you're unhappy. Written with the bias of a short girly-boy who keeps trying to "fix" people
from http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050623/photos_sc/mdf590777
A Hyalinobatrachium sp frog is shown in an herpetologist lab in this undated photo taken in Quito, Ecuador. Epibatidine -- the chemical which paralyzed and killed enemies of the Indians in what is now Ecuador -- has been isolated to produce a pain killer 200 times more powerful than morphine, but without that drug's addictive and toxic side effects. (Stringer/Reuters)
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So wait... like Bob Barker? "And remember, help control the human population, have your friends spayed or neutered!"
That's kinda creepy.
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I think that's how Bayer originally promoted Heroin.
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You are really just a straight boy at heart, aren't you? "...for women" - it would seem the same could be said for guys dating guys and boys dating girls. Now, the issue I have with your statement:
Unkempt, driven, insensitive jackasses = are all 4 of these qualities interlinked to make this person bad material? Is it any one of these characteristics independent of the others?
Unkempt = no problem, someone who does not take care of themselves does not respect themselves and is unlikely to respect others. A lack of attention to cleanliness is an invitation to disaster, or at least gnarly STDs.
driven = we'll come back to this one.
insensitive = Someone who is solely focused on him/herself and takes no time to consider a partner's feelings is a lout. Someone who is incapable of empathy is to be pitied and avoided in intimate contact. Someone who just can't take time to think about it...bitch slap.
jackass = to a limited degree, I will quibble and say it depends on context. Someone who is over aggressive may be a jackass to you or me, but exactly what Shelly Sweetheart from Sweetwater High wants for getting her freak on. Outside of that consideration, jackasses are perhaps good for a weekend but bad for long duration.
Now back to driven. Was this just included because you are sometimes pissy about not being driven enough, or because you are still trying to find the "sweet spot" between driven and letting the rest of life pass you by? Is this a specific form of driven you take issue with, the driven that is monomaniacal and tends towards insensitivity and loutishness? I would hope that would be the case instead of an objection to "drive" as a function and "driven" as a characteristic.
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Does jackass really need definition and analysis?
Unkempt could be someone who focuses on the substantial, while meticulously presented and maintained could just be self-conscious, a sycophant, or some other insecure twit. None of these survives a deep analysis - but I think it's still a fair generality. Next I'll rip on the idiocy of trying to pretend romance could spawn from a club-based relationship.
Wow I'm jaded. I blame the hours of sunlight exposure today.
Driven - it was because someone mentioned it and it sounded unhealthy. I don't consider myself driven, but I think that's a good thing. It might describe my behavior, but the motivation is what seems key there. Your actions are not as important as the reason for them.
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Froggy!
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You might want to, however, consider adoption as an option.
If all that fails date a Viking.
Phil