who needs structure?

you'd really think the life of an economics masters student would be more exciting, wouldn't you? (intense sarcasm intended). instead, i spend my idle time playing with alliteration. and getting hit on by guys in bear hats (i.e. the hat has a bear face and ears on it, like the hood of a halloween costume). par for the course with me.

not even my birthday was interesting enough to blog about, although i *did* see a kangaroo chasing a squirrel at the zoo. zoos are depressing, btw, and i was only there because i was driving the iraqis around. which feels like it should have a story, too, but doesn't really. on the upside, all the driving has probably earned me enough money to go to cali this summer. that'll be fun.

i'm pretty happy with the people i know right now. i laugh a lot. but deep conversations have become increasingly difficult to find after high school; i expected exactly the reverse. it probably has something to do with spending most of my intervening life in one college or another. the more specialized people become, and the more reason they have to be intellectually arrogant, the less they seem to talk about anything interesting. even though they're interesting people. it's like they're scared that someone will find out they don't know everything about everything, and the entire house of cards will come tumbling down. bye bye, career. which is just stupid. learning is about finding out how much you don't know, and following the questions that present themselves. only, apparently it isn't. and that alternately bores and saddens me. i'm the first to advocate doing things solely for my own amusement, don't get me wrong. but if you don't connect and share, what exactly is the point?