Highlights
December 2007
- Dined with Janis and Tom at Les Sans Culottes, and Beyoglu.
- Attended a Caltech alumni brunch at Flor de Mayo.
- Dined with Tommy at Shaburi.
- Watched Atonement (2007).
- Had brunch at Good Enough to Eat.
November 2007
- Reading Stanley B. Lippman, Josee Lajoie, and Barbara E. Moo's
C++ Primer, 4th ed. (2005).
- Reading Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance.
- Read Joel Spolsky: Smart and Gets Things Done (2007).
- Read Doris Lessing:
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside (1987).
- Read Jerome Groopman: How Doctors Think (2007).
- Read Joel Spolsky: The Best Software Writing I (2005).
- Took the blog private;
resolving to use it more.
- Lunched with Billy.
- Visited Charlotte, North Carolina, to interview at a hedge fund.
Reconnected with old friends.
- Disappointed with the short battery life of my new
Samsung A717 3G mobile phone (and all the dropped
calls during phone interviews), sold it on eBay
and returned to using my old Nokia 6010.
- Skipped Black Friday.
- Flipped through Jon Gordon: The 10-minute energy solution.
- Painted trim in living room.
October 2007
- Painted living room.
- Drove through Connecticut to see the fall foliage.
Saw Bulls Bridge, Dennis Hill State Park, Stillwater Pond.
- Dropped our T-Mobile-To-Go prepaid service and ported numbers to AT&T.
Immediately observed lots of dropped calls.
- Laid off from Bank of America.
September 2007
- Met old friends for dinner at Churrascaria Plataforma.
- Painted bedroom.
- Collected shells at South Beach, Sandy Hook,
in the Gateway National Recreation Area, New Jersey.
August 2007
- Visited the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
- Attended the opening round of the U.S. Open
in Flushing Meadows, New York, and watched two matches:
Venus Williams-Kira Nagy;
Serena Williams-Angelique Kerber.
- Moved to a bigger apartment.
July 2007
- Sold Xiaoli's dead laptop in parts on eBay.
- Attended a Caltech alumni event and heard a
New York Philharmonic concert in Central Park.
June 2007
- Visited Botanical Gardens on Staten Island.
- Attended a Caltech alumni brunch at Agave.
May 2007
- Visited Metropolitan Museum of Art with friends.
- Lunched at Gobo.
- Went apartment-hunting.
- Met an old family friend who was visiting New York.
- Visited Grimaldi's Pizza in Brooklyn.
- Visited the Museum of Modern Art.
- Attended Parisa and Benjamin's wedding in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
- Visited Fallingwater.
Lucky we had GPS! There were lots of mosquitos.
April 2007
March 2007
- Inspired by alumni conference, reconnected with old friends.
February 2007
- Passed NASD Series 63 exam.
- Read Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle", "I Stand Here Ironing", "Hey Sailor, What Ship?", "O Yes".
- Attended a Caltech Alumni Volunteer Leadership Conference.
- Reading John Kenneth Galbraith: "The New Industrial State", 4th ed.
January 2007
- Read Joe Klein: Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid.
- Observed spring conditions in Central Park.
- Read Orhan Pamuk's Snow (translated by Maureen Freely).
- Reconnected with friends at a Caltech alumni brunch.
- Ordered from FreshDirect (grocery delivery service).
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