Holy Shit I Suck at Accounting.

Before I begin, I might as well give respect to Derick and Nik, two accountant buddies of mine. Maybe your minds work differently than mine, but I simply cannot, for the life of me, get a grip on this accounting shit. It is driving me up the wall. It takes me like 6 hours to figure out what to do with something like "Pays Rent for 2 months." It seems overly complicated to me...something about crediting the cash account for the rent, then debiting the Deferred Rent costs for one month, and then crediting the Rent expense account for one month...or something. It is just driving me crazy. The T-Accounts, the balance sheet, the income statement...I mean...it has literally been two days of class and I am already completely befuddled. I thought I came to law school because I was bad at math and thought I had found something I was good at...apparently not. My mind simply cannot grasp logical mathetical relationships as simple as adding and subtracting. Holy shit.

Anyway...that's that.

This past weekend was fantastic, even though I didn't get much work done. Ashley came up from New York for...40 hours or so and it was a whirlwind. We went to Harvard Square for dinner, watched Scrubs on my computer, had a fantastic brunch down the street, got new furniture, new toys for my apartment, and redesigned my apartment in many ways...went all kinds of shopping...

The real "highlight" of the whole redecorating excursions though...was Ikea. Have you people been to Ikea before? It's fucking RIDICULOUS! We spent about 30 hours in the store just trying to figure out what to get...and we got SO TIRED. The place is enormous, like a self-contained interior decorating country/museum. I could NOT believe how much stuff there was, and how varied the goods were, and how unbelievably cheap almost everything in that store was. I simply don't understand how Ikea survives with the obvious enormity of its overhead costs, and the super-low prices...They seem to undercut even Wal-Mart pricing, except with goods that would almost certainly be priced at 15 or 20 times higher. I got a catalog from Crate and Barrel that lists rugs as costing over 300 dollars a piece. Meanwhile, I bought 4 plants, a coffee table, a side table, new glass ware, a wine rack, spice jars, a spice rack, an orchid, vases for the orchids, a new lamp, a clock, and 4 wine glasses, among other things...for less than 200 dollars. Unreal. For the boring lameasses in you, I've included pictures.

This is my desk area. Notice the tree on the upper left, the bamboo and cut flowers on the right, and all the clutter. There's really not much that's interesting about this picture except you just get a view of my apartment.






This is just a shot to demonstrate that I now possess a white orchid, two paintings from an Indian kid, and a wall.











This picture on the right is the main shot of my room. New coffee table in the middle, black microfiber couch, bookshelves, chinese paintings, television (that seems like it should be much much larger..maybe I'll go for like a 90 inch flatscreen) and all that jazz. Once again, boring, mundane, and all that bullshit, but this is where I live. deal with it.
This is probably my favorite part...which is my teeny-tiny kitchen. Yes the stove is small, yes the countertop is small, clearly there's not enough room for ANYTHING....BUT...necessity being the mother of invention...I totally dig the spice rack (complements of Ikea and Ashley) full of brightly brightly colored Indian spices, and all the pots and pans and implements hanging from my cabinets.






So that's that. My apartment as of 2 weeks. I'd say it's not a bad start, considering that I've just started at a brand new law school, that I don't understand what's going on in any of my classes, that I've lost the will to have any real life, and that my future is very slowly circling the drain.


Now for my life...Clearly I'm in a state of conflict. Do I want to be a lawyer? (no) What kind of lawyer do I want to be? (no.) Am i going to work for a large corporate law firm in NYC anyway after my second year? (apparently yes) Will I work for a firm any better than i would have worked for from Wash U? (no) Do I have any idea where this path is going? (no)

But I do still unequivocally find myself drawn to the intersection of international politics, poverty, development, law, human rights, and economics. These are things that...taken together...I sincerely enjoy. It's really just the study of the entire world I guess, and I find that interesting. Increasingly, however, I find that my complete lack of mathematical analytical skills necessary for economics and finance/business completely preclude me from doing those things I enjoy the most. And it's not for a lack of effort. It's seriously that my mind can NOT absorb mathematical relationships. It's the exact same mental mind block that gets thrown up when someone speaks in a double negative (or in LawLaw land, triple or quadruple negative.) I just ain't suited so good for it. So chances are I'll end up at a firm and be an attorney for awhile, give up, and realize that my real passion is cleaning. (seriously, I actually would put down "cleaning my apartment" as a hobby on my resume if I wouldn't be laughed out of the room.)

Drinking: Two Buck Chuck (which actually costs 3 dollars). As always...quality, at least quality for a wine that costs about as much as water. As you can probably tell, I'm a little drunk right now...been polishing off the left over from last night...so I'm gonna go ahead and stop rambling and post something better tomorrow.