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Respecting Reality
May. 6th, 2019 09:24 pmThe German side of my common-law in-laws includes the CEO a B2B furniture company of some note. Their corporate slogan has the wonderfully pragmatic slogan, "Respecting Reality", which is in rather short supply these days. Well, today I decided to do some of that myself, and defer my exams for my graduate degree in economics. I went over some of the exams for previous years and realised that I would a seriously uphill battle to complete them at the standard I want. Which is not surprising really. Due to various enrolment and course material delivery issues, I didn't actually receive all the material until late November last year. So you can imagine my surprise when in mid-January I received an email announcing that exams would be in May. Ahem, I might be a pretty smart cookie, but when you've haven't done second order differential equations for almost thirty years, it might take more than a few months to get back into the swing of things. So, following the suggestion of the University, that degree is delayed for a year. At least I've made a start on it, and following the first exam, an essay on The Ideal Determination of Government.
Apart from that, and respecting a different sort of reality, attended Robbie and Eddie's wedding on Saturday night, held at the somewhat famous Tolarno Eating House in St. Kilda. It was a fun night to say the least, in fact downright astounding and my very best wishes and congratulations to the beautiful couple. There was great opportunities to catch up with a wide range of old friends, many of which I've known for the better part of twenty-plus years - sardonic political radicals, rockers and ravers, stoner Buddhists; you know what I mean, the people who make this world colourful and interesting, who have never succumbed to the lure of filthy lucre, and have steadfastly avoided being deadening greyness of conformity. As you would imagine with such a crowd the music for the night was pretty damn fine, and I've had Born Slippy.NUXX as an earworm for a couple of days. Which is all very well, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya won the ballot to see The Cure at the Sydney Opera House, and we'd previously booked to see Underworld at the same venue. I'm rather looking forward to it.
Apart from that, and respecting a different sort of reality, attended Robbie and Eddie's wedding on Saturday night, held at the somewhat famous Tolarno Eating House in St. Kilda. It was a fun night to say the least, in fact downright astounding and my very best wishes and congratulations to the beautiful couple. There was great opportunities to catch up with a wide range of old friends, many of which I've known for the better part of twenty-plus years - sardonic political radicals, rockers and ravers, stoner Buddhists; you know what I mean, the people who make this world colourful and interesting, who have never succumbed to the lure of filthy lucre, and have steadfastly avoided being deadening greyness of conformity. As you would imagine with such a crowd the music for the night was pretty damn fine, and I've had Born Slippy.NUXX as an earworm for a couple of days. Which is all very well, as
caseopaya won the ballot to see The Cure at the Sydney Opera House, and we'd previously booked to see Underworld at the same venue. I'm rather looking forward to it.