November

I've done my normal November retreat again this year. And by retreat, I don't mean vacation in the mountains, I mean cut myself off from the outside world. This year, my professors have decided to change things up and make all sorts of things due before Thanksgiving break, not after. This isn't great for me, since I always plan on using my escape from Thanksgiving as a time when I can get all sorts of work done.

So this year, I'll once again have the house to myself (and the dogs) but I'm not going to have hardly any work to do (compared to what I'll be doing in the preceding weeks). But that's okay, I'll have Nano to keep me company.

I recently bought a new game called Munchkin (recently = October) and got to finally play it (it requires 3 people to play, not two like I originally thought). The wait was well worth it. The game is basically a spoof on D&D games, with humorous monsters, potions, and items used to get your character to be the first to level 10. I played with three teenage girls, and they enjoyed it enough to agree to play again sometime (we had to cut the game short because people had to go home), so I count that as a success, and think I'll be able to get all my friends to play, even those that aren't inclined to D&D and the like. Consider yourselves forewarned.

Trust

As much as I sometimes think that dogs lead great lives of sleeping, eating, and playing almost all the time, I realize that I wouldn't be happy with the amount of trust that you have to put in other people as a dog, or as any type of pet. Dogs rely on people for their food, although they can apparently learn to fend for themselves on the streets (but still, they're probably most eating people-food still), to be let outside (would you willing lock yourself in a building where you were completely unable to open up the doors or windows?), and just in general (how many people do you know who consistently come when called?).

So yeah, I think it would be fun to sleep half the day and go run through the brush after squirrels and rabbits the other half, but I really think I'd have issues with not being able to do anything for myself.

Found my thesis

Because I've recently been told that making assumptions is a bad thing (and one of the reasons that economics is inferior to the 'real' sciences) I think I shall do my thesis based on the earning power of people based on the astrological sign. Because we can't assume anything.

From an article I had to read:
"Because an individual's date of birth is probably unrelated to their ability and motivation (ruling out astrological effects), date of birth should provide a valid instrument for earnings."