Votergasm.com

Votergasm.com - withhold sex from non-voters & encourage young individuals to rock the vote... I'm all about coming up with creative ways to encourage people to vote, but if sex is the only thing that motivates people, there might be bigger fish to fry there. So that's my random find of the week, though not so random if it's on the front page of the Daily.

The past few days have been absolutely hectic...wedding crisises to solve, career fair week activities...big nasty advanced acct exam...yeah, not fun... Where to start?

Wedding: the hotel lost our wedding block of rooms, and some reservations the night of the wedding. So Steve was actually able to take care of that for me; he faxed them a copy of the contract that my mom had to scan for me, since I don't have enough space to keep all of that stuff in my little room. Then my deposit check for the cake was cashed...and it's supposed to be held, and then the actual check will be returned to me to destroy once they get the rented decór items back. So my bank account has less money in it than I thought it had...thank god for the Bank of Steve for helping me make up the shortfall!

Career Fair: good night on Tuesday, talked up Deloitte and KPMG @ Beta Alpha Psi's mini-accounting-only career fair. Dinner afterwards...topics at the all-female table ranged from ISU football to wedding planning... :) Wednesday proved not as lucrative, though I was able to visit with an IRS Criminal Agent about the interview process I'm going to go through when I go to DC in a week and a half. And today, I'm not all that sure I'm wanting a job w/LockMart, though I don't oppose the job from the standpoint of what the company does. I was specifically asked if I would have a problem working for a company that makes items that provide our soldiers with "better ways to protect themselves"...and obviously I don't, or I would have a problem with Steve doing the job he does.

And then the exam smack right in the middle of a busy week...cruel & unusual. On a different class-related note, we had an exchange prof for my intl mgmt class this week. He came in to talk about trade policy, because he can talk about it better than my real prof, so those 2 switch classes to talk about things that they specialize in. What he had to say is that we really need to 1) understand trade policy better, because 2) the people who make that policy don't really know what their doing (and not just Bush, it's very historical that trade ramifications are not predicted). His basic point for thinking that we need to know this is that things can go bad quickly, and we have a lot of life ahead of us young-uns, and it wouldn't take much to make it uncomfortable for us. Then pinging off that note, I've really come to the conclusion that the US is getting to the point where most people aren't going to be able to maintain/sustain some of the creature comforts they grown accustomed to. I think there is going to be a more natural progression toward free market policies, which is going to ship some jobs away from this country. Then we, as a society, will have less disposable income and won't be able to maintain the standard of living we are used to. I, for one, plan to be prepared for this - it's a relatively simple matter of living within your means and not racking up a lot of debt.

OK, now way too distracted by the season premier of ER...must stop typing...