Yesterday I relived my youth: I was stood up! I was supposed to meet an ex-customer for drinks. She now works for a competing Japanese company, and wanted advice on how to succeed in such an environment, especially as a woman. I waited for her for ½ hour, but she was a no-show.
This incident brought back memories of an incident that occurred in my freshman year at college. I went to undergraduate engineering school at Cooper Union downtown, where the ratio of men to women was something on the order of 50 to 1. The social life was “fantasticâ€. One day I learned that there was a woman in the chemical engineering class who lived near me – one subway stop away. I was thrilled!
I immediately hatched a plan to meet her. I researched her schedule, and what time she got on the subway. I would “coincidentally†meet her at the subway stop, so that we could chat on the train ride to school. As I later found out, my research was off. She actually came to the subway stop one and a half hours after I had thought.
I went into action. I arrived at the subway stop at the (wrong) appointed time, and lingered around, waiting for her to arrive. I waited ……and waited…..and waited…..and she didn’t show up. All the time I was trying to put on a brave face, and pretend that everything was OK. Finally, the clerk in the token booth leaves his spot, walks over to me, and says in a slow, compassionate voice: “Son, you’re just going to have to face it: she’s not comingâ€. I was SO embarrassed I wanted to crawl under a rock.
There is a happy ending, though. Eventually I did get to meet her, and we went out on a couple of dates.
Maybe that would be a good topic for today: most embarrassing dating moment
What…first of all, the last failed gilts auction was 2002. The result was pretty much a non event since it was an auction for 40 year securities and, it didn’t totally fail…it was 93% bought 1.63 B pounds vs. 1.75 B pfferred.
The result was all but impercebtible in the currenct and the yield on ten year gilts moved 4 basis points. 40 Years is a very long term issue…I don’t think there are any other governments that offer 40 year bonds.
It was a non event.
As far as things being bad I’m still eating out and buying wine. Nothing shoved up my ass that I don’t want. Were you ever at the I-Beam in San francisco??????
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
I JUST REMEBERED THE SILEX SCENE I SAW LAST NIGHT!!!!
it was them with some designer about making bookshelves and them saying they wanted real books in their home for their kids to pick up and read like charles dickens (barf dickens is so boring and you can read the complete works on the internet anyway). but then the guy asked them if they had a playstation 3 and of course they said no, and that they hate having 2 tv’s!!! ummm… you denounce tv’s yet youre plastering youre life all over it!!?!?
ive been dvr’ing most of the season so ill watch the rest when i have free time.
Thanks Rob, but I can’t take credit for the ‘Silex’ moniker. I just come back over and over to the thought of how and why would anyone put themselves or their children through this.
Cobble, I’d like to see the headline about you and I working!
“11217 Secretly Hates Park Slope”
LOL! Good one Snappy!
How about:
Cobblehiller and Snappy get jobs and now have nothing to talk about!
and I responded snappy. Nothing like getting dumped on for having a differing opinion.
“rob figures out eats shoots and leaves”
Greetings from San Diego!
Yesterday I relived my youth: I was stood up! I was supposed to meet an ex-customer for drinks. She now works for a competing Japanese company, and wanted advice on how to succeed in such an environment, especially as a woman. I waited for her for ½ hour, but she was a no-show.
This incident brought back memories of an incident that occurred in my freshman year at college. I went to undergraduate engineering school at Cooper Union downtown, where the ratio of men to women was something on the order of 50 to 1. The social life was “fantasticâ€. One day I learned that there was a woman in the chemical engineering class who lived near me – one subway stop away. I was thrilled!
I immediately hatched a plan to meet her. I researched her schedule, and what time she got on the subway. I would “coincidentally†meet her at the subway stop, so that we could chat on the train ride to school. As I later found out, my research was off. She actually came to the subway stop one and a half hours after I had thought.
I went into action. I arrived at the subway stop at the (wrong) appointed time, and lingered around, waiting for her to arrive. I waited ……and waited…..and waited…..and she didn’t show up. All the time I was trying to put on a brave face, and pretend that everything was OK. Finally, the clerk in the token booth leaves his spot, walks over to me, and says in a slow, compassionate voice: “Son, you’re just going to have to face it: she’s not comingâ€. I was SO embarrassed I wanted to crawl under a rock.
There is a happy ending, though. Eventually I did get to meet her, and we went out on a couple of dates.
Maybe that would be a good topic for today: most embarrassing dating moment
What…first of all, the last failed gilts auction was 2002. The result was pretty much a non event since it was an auction for 40 year securities and, it didn’t totally fail…it was 93% bought 1.63 B pounds vs. 1.75 B pfferred.
The result was all but impercebtible in the currenct and the yield on ten year gilts moved 4 basis points. 40 Years is a very long term issue…I don’t think there are any other governments that offer 40 year bonds.
It was a non event.
As far as things being bad I’m still eating out and buying wine. Nothing shoved up my ass that I don’t want. Were you ever at the I-Beam in San francisco??????
“It’s time once again for the least likely Brownstoner-related headlines.”
“Entire Day and Not One Pun from Biff Champion.”
“Has DIBS Lost his Mojo? He Has Not Been Seen with a Mexican or Asian Guy”
“THL and Benson Dine at an Italian Restaurant”
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
I JUST REMEBERED THE SILEX SCENE I SAW LAST NIGHT!!!!
it was them with some designer about making bookshelves and them saying they wanted real books in their home for their kids to pick up and read like charles dickens (barf dickens is so boring and you can read the complete works on the internet anyway). but then the guy asked them if they had a playstation 3 and of course they said no, and that they hate having 2 tv’s!!! ummm… you denounce tv’s yet youre plastering youre life all over it!!?!?
ive been dvr’ing most of the season so ill watch the rest when i have free time.
*rob*
Thanks Rob, but I can’t take credit for the ‘Silex’ moniker. I just come back over and over to the thought of how and why would anyone put themselves or their children through this.