Tuesday

Well, again, no work, but, lunch with Marco. Hanging out with Marco in his little apartment left me about 10 minutes late for class. Whoops. So I sat in the back this time. Which was good because when the might-have-been-our-roomie guy mentioned that a paper topic was due by next monday, the deer-in-the-headlights look was probably writ plain on my face. More difficulty than usual paying attention today. The topic was segregation. What are the causes of it? Is it inefficient? Should we do something about it, and if so, what can we do about it? I zoned somewhat. Especially given the simplifying and very unrealistic assumption that there are two races: black and nonblack. (or maybe it was white and nonwhite, the use of ‘w’ and ‘b’ was confusing, ‘b’ and ‘nb’ or ‘w’ and ‘nw’ would have been much more useful. this assumption was also adopted in the ‘advanced’ paper I read in the political economy of inequality and redistribution about racial preferences for redistribution based on exposure to people of other races in one’s own neighborhood benefiting from redistribution).

After that, back home. I broke down and started the final fantasy origins (ff1) game. Fighter, Red Mage (technically, he is the superior character), Monk, White Mage. This time I chose a naming scheme such that each was the name of a character in a different Dave Duncan universe. I had to stretch, but I imagine I will feel slightly more original than in my earlier final-fantasy based naming theme.

Then dinner with the ruraler than I , my second 240 lab partner, whom I haven’t seen since before I moved to chicago, long before I got on lj. We’ve certainly both changed in the intervening years, but it’s reassuring to note that we are definitely the same people. =) Played munchkin with he and simon. Fun was had. Then sleep, then up at something like 5am for no readily apparent reason. Fortunately, I have managed to fritter away a few hours, though I may still get into the office before 9. <gasp>

Ro comes back today.