Okay, that was freaky

For the second day in the last three, I've woken up out of sleep with an extremely disturbing dream still in my head. In fact, this morning I woke up because it was so disturbing.

Long story short, I was strung up in a cabin in the woods with a psychotic boyfriend / ex-boyfrend (something like that), who looked vaguely like the Joker from Batman before he put on his makeup. As the dream progressed, he got progressively more crazy, until he decided that to prove I was still loyal to him he would cut off my fingers and toes, one by one.

I struggled, I pleaded, I screamed. Nothing helped. He put my foot on a cutting board over a bucket, and I couldn't pull it away from him. I finally started awake just as the meat cleaver came down on my right baby toe.

My alarm goes off in 20 minutes, but there is is no way in hell I'm going back to sleep after that.

The state of the studying

Despite appearances, I think I'm actually as ready as I'm going to be for tomorrow's macroeconomics exam. Let me be clear: I don't know everything, and I have no desire to know everything. On the other hand, the nice thing about macro is that it builds on itself, so if you're okay with the fundamentals, you can probably figure out the rest of it as you go. Which is more-or-less where I find myself.

I haven't really memorized any formula (well, maybe a few), and not many relationships, either. But the ones I do know are pretty wide-ranging. In fact, I think it mostly comes down to two relationships: 1. an increase in money supply = a decrease in interest rates; 2. an increase in interest rates = a decrease in GDP. It's amazing how much you can figure out with just these two relationships and a few simple graphs.

So I guess I won't do too much more studying today. Most of the stuff I don't know are the piddly little details I won't learn in a day anyway. I guess it's off to write Daily Breadcrumbs and go to the library, then. Bye!

Mr. Deity

For those of you who like people poking fun at religion and fundamentalism, go to the iTunes store or YouTube and search for "Mr. Deity." Or go to the official webpage.

Go. Watch. Laugh.