So, there’s no getting around the fact that I haven’t been exactly a regular on these pages in the last few months. I guess there just hasn’t been much to note – I’ve been pretty much heads down coding for the job and spending the spare time training the martial arts. So apologies for the lack of updates.
But I am happy to say that my 6 month contract with Barclays Global Investors has just finished today, and I’m a free man to enjoy the summer and do as I will. I feel like I just had the last day of school or something. Very strange. G has just announced that she’s coming over and she’s going to take me out to get wrecked. Considering I only get drunk maybe once every couple of years, if that, this shouldn’t be too hard.
The last time I had a done-with-work-let’s-get-drunk outing was right about this time 10 years ago in NYC when I left D.E. Shaw & Co for Colorado. I dimly remember shots of jello and Jaegermeister, culminating sitting in a restaurant on India Row in the East Village sometime around midnight with my forehead planted on the table, the restaurant spinning around me, and too queasy to eat. Blech. Definitely no Jaeger tonight. Definitely.
congrats mon ami!!! i hope we can be part of the festivities as well – ma famille et moi are partying it up in a wildly fabulous chateau in the south of france (our girl rejeen married well as they say)… any chance of meeting up with you and the missus and doing our own 10 yr reunion? i miraculously found an internet connection here in Vacqueras (northwest of Carpentras)… we’re at the Hotel Montmirail in Gigondas until 6/2 so hopefully we can connect?? love you!!! have a blast and don’t get the headspins… give your girl big kisses from all of us… xoxoxoxoxooxoxxo, c