Done and Done....for now

I just emailed in my Corporate Finance Final Exam, so with that I am officially done with my first year at business school. My how the year was so long yet so fast.

I'll have a recap at some point over the weekend. But for now, to the year-end gala in SF to celebrate. Autobots, transform and roll out.

How much for that?

Today is my last final for the semester in Ethics (well, I still gotta finish a take home for Corp Fin but im 95% done). Anyway we need to digitally sign a sheet that says we didn't cheat when the following conversation happens:

Roommate 1: Do we actually need to sign this?
Me: No, just type your name in, that'll do
Roommate 1: Maybe I should scan my signature so I can use it on stuff like this
Roommate 2: that's $Gay-99

awesome

Lack of Talent?

We had our talent show here at school last Thursday and it was abundantly clear that a lot of people have many other musical or physical skills where as i have.... excel? Just goes to show how fortunate i am to be with a great group of kids.

On the other hand, we do lack "talent" in other ways here. While on facebook i was looking at a picture taken of 5 2nd-year (asian) girls from this past weekend in Las Vegas. I had the following conversation with my roommate:

Me: "True or False, there is at least one hot girl in this picture?"
Roommate: "Are those a bunch of dudes?"

I can't wait for my girlfriend to be out here next year.....

She was a Ho.....

Thank you Pepsi, Safeway, and The 40 Year-Old Virgin

Robbed by the Rice Krispies Guys

I was at the grocery store today (and yes, Safeway stores in Berkeley are much crappier than most A&P and Shop-Rites back east) when something really strange happened. I got to the checkout counter and was emptying everything onto the conveyor belt when I noticed my box of Cheerios was gone. I KNOW that I put it in there. Someone actually yanked my cereal box out of my cart. WTF Man?!

I've had a few things stolen from me over the years: t-shirts, sandals, sweaters, my dog (i didnt even have a dog! long story....) but those are aren't even the strangest of them all. A few years ago, for Hoboken St. Patrick's Day, my roommates and I had one of our Apartment 1112 blowout parties. I'd say at least 130 different people circulated in and out of our place that day and also convened in our bedrooms since the place was so packed. And at the end of the day something of mine was stolen. Not my tv, laptop, ipod, nor clothing.... but my Gillette Fusion Razor. Really, Lloyd?! Really?!

So what's the strangest thing you've had stolen?

The Pen is Mightier

Just read an editorial in Time about circumcision, while in the bathroom none the less. Essentially, a jewish guy is about to be the father of a baby boy and is doing research to deem whether it really makes sense to cut off that initial piece of foreskin. Does it really prevent STDs? How much bigger does it look? Do the ladies love it? (just watch Robin Hood: Men in Tights for that one).

I was under the impression that it is almost standardized, but some of the stats kind of suprised me:

90% were snipped in the 60's-70's (what i figured)
50% are snipped today (really?)
30% are snipped in California (really Lloyd? really???)

While I don't want to know from my readership who's got a little extra down there, I am really curious about why so low in CA. Is this another hippie thing? Or am I missing something else here?

I actually had a conversation about this on Monday with my girlfriend, not about whether to do it or not, but why would you cater it and why would anyone go to it. Well, its more customary than anything else. Why else would you want to come home, 8 days after being born, to have your relatives and parents friends come by for bagels and lox to have the Rabbi (in the words of Mel Brooks) "nip the tip"?