Grumpy Pants

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Rich & Elaine, you've got all my sympathy! Hope something
will show up soon.

I was laid off some weeks ago after nine years in the same
company. My head switched from IT mode to academic mode almost
immediately. In less than two weeks I cooked up a study plan
and managed to send an application to the Kone foundation in
time. They make elevators, hope they can elevate me too.

I've been busy working on the study plan ever since, so that's
why I have written nothing to the list for some time. And the
study won't include IV. In fact, I wrote a wholly new plan,
taking in Kafka and Borges, partly to avoid including AtD and
IV...


Best,
Heikki

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, rich wrote:

> thx, Elaine
>
> my girlfriend is a PhD candidate in English so you can imagine
> there'll be lots of mac and cheese dinners in our future
>
> i'm just so glad the Dow reached 10,000. that really makes me want to
> sing--see below ;)
>
> (from a ny times wall st fanboy, Andrew Sorkin who writes like a
> gushing 9 yr old.
> the time is last sept during the financial "meltdown")
>
> 'The 50th-floor office of Goldman?s fixed-income trading unit, in
> Lower Manhattan, was in near meltdown by lunchtime on Thursday. No
> trading was taking place, and the traders themselves were glued to
> their terminals, staring at the GS ticker as the market continued its
> swoon. Goldman?s stock dropped to $85.88, its lowest level in nearly
> six years.
>
> Jon Winkelried, Goldman?s other co-president, had been walking the
> floors, trying to calm everyone?s nerves. ?We could raise $5 billion
> in an hour if we wanted to,? he told a group of traders, as if to
> suggest that nothing was amiss. But just then, at one p.m., the
> market?and Goldman?s stock?suddenly turned around, with Goldman rising
> to $87 a share, and then $89. Traders raced through their screens
> trying to determine what had been responsible for the lift and
> discovered that the Financial Services Authority in the U.K. had
> announced a 30-day ban on short-selling 29 financial stocks, including
> Goldman Sachs?s.
>
> The squawk boxes on Goldman?s trading floor soon crackled to
> attention. A young trader found a recording of ?The Star-Spangled
> Banner? on the Internet and broadcast it over the speakers to
> commemorate the moment. About three dozen traders stood up from their
> desks, placed their hands over their hearts, and sang aloud,
> accompanied by rounds of high-fives and cheers'
>
> http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/11/too-big-to-fail-excerpt-200911?printable=true.
>
> rich
>
> On 10/14/09, Elaine Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been out of work since January 2008!  It is horribly frustrating, scary
> > and diminishing... you have my sympathy!
> >
> > On 10/10/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> maybe i'm too grumpy--lost my freaking job yesterday. laid off twice
> >> in the last three years-does sour one's outlook
> >>
> >> but the lady of the house has frozen chocolate-covered bananas for
> >> dessert tonight at least
> >>
> >> rich
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
> > 585.218.9583
> > Have Laptop/Will Travel
> >
>