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Out of all the blog postings I've ever had the pleasure of posting, I can honestly say that this is the first posting I've written from a Mac. I'm writing from my new 12" PowerBook G4, which is so incredibly small and light that I don't know how I ever did without it. The keyboard and great graphics makes it entirely worth it. It's not a wimpy machine either with half a gig of RAM and a 60GB hard drive. Not bad at all.

I just came from signing the lease to a new apartment, keeping the streak alive of never had to live in one apartment for more than 11 months straight.

I think there's some irony to be had while taking my MBA degree. One of the chief motivations I have for taking the degree is that I never want to go through the unfortunate situation of being unemployed. The recession in Canada during the early 1990s really affected my family and still has an impact on my parents future. Right off the bat though in my Economics class, I'm given the run through about why recessions happen and total insight to how the economy grows and shrinks in cycles. I see my family buried in the statistic of that extra 2% of unemployment we faced in order to bring down inflation and come back to the potential stable long run GDP line. It's just numbers, but somehow it's really shaped my outlook on who I am and how hard I'm willing to work to provide for myself. I think I never would have had such a hard work ethic had my parents had it easy when I was growing up.

Speaking of a hard work ethic, it does appear that I will have to pull my socks up a little higher and grind a little bit more, seeing as how I got 64% on my first mid-term. Somewhat reminiscent of Waterloo though, that first term I was pretty convinced that I would flunk out and that would be the end of it. I'll have to tough it out though, I guess it somewhat puts it in perspective that when exams are over in December, I'll only be 10% done.