there's a twinkle in my dying eyes0800 hrs:*sigh* And so begins another day. My suspicions are confirmed: entering my workplace relegates any personality I normally have to the back burner during work hours. There were two things I was going to blog about right away - but can I remember them? Hell no....
0933 hrs:Could be having fun working in the 80,000+ record database right now, but instead have been doing some online training (read "reading boring facts and then being quizzed on them") about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I think I had always had an inkling about the truth of our financial and business systems here in the U.S., but now I feel just how much it is deeply buried and hidden in language. Because of this, the financial system is opaque to the common person; only with education and serious study can one begin to 'see' what really goes on - the glass looking in on the gears of money starts to become more transparent, little by little. I am really stunned at just how ambiguous all of the language surrounding financial disclosure and regulation is. The language that is meant to make things more cut-and-dried and transparent to investors and regulators has only managed to blur the edges and allow room for wiggling.
1332 hrs:Seems that everyone in the office is in a really good mood today. I think I can safely say that a lot of people are just happy that 2008 is over. 2009 seems to be full to the brim with the possibility of being a really good year. I don't think I've ever looked forward to one year ending and another beginning as much as I have this one. 2008 feels especially tired and worn down. Is it all in my mind?
Also, tonight is going to be one of the most laid back New Year's Eves in the last 10 years of the ones I've had while in the United States. Last year's New Year's Eve was completely uneventful. I was in the desert, so no alcohol to be had and 2008 really just felt like more of the same - like an extended 2007. Nailz and I will be going to a thrown-together-at-the-last-minute New Year's Eve party. Good thing too, or the upstairs neighbors might negate my first New Year's resolution, which is to not inadvertently kill anyone.
PLAYLIST:
Album: Green - Ah, domo. Hajimemashite.
Album: Homemade Kazoku - Musication
Labels: musings, playlists, resolutions, work