you should change the name of your journal to "E: Love Machine"

are these just personal enrichment courses or are they supporting a grander scheme?

don't bother with the wanker. he sounds like the wrong type of scum.

I'm starting to think the color change had a huge, absurd effect.

Courses are mostly for fun, with the added bonus of nudging up my GPA, in case I pursue grad school.

Wanker, by his own nickname, is not a prospect.

you owe it to us to produce more photos of said color change.

did you party too much as an undergrad and tank your GPA?

the risk adverse are always a funny lot. you should aggressively pursue.

Risk concentration, bad for the portfolio, unless you're in venture, in which case it is all about rolling the dice and expecting own skills make a big win out of 25% of the shots.

And I still detest hair colouring.

L: perhaps if you had some outrageous hair colouring, you wouldn't have been made commander of the regional titanic interests.

I loved your hair coloring, and I would LOVE to stand in your lobby for 10 or more minutes.

Ooh, durable authoritarianism! Such fun. Is the focus on just bureaucratic/auth/populist states or ones like Saudi too?

Isn't it funny how Iran is rarely studied as such, even though it should be.

"Banker and Wanker" -- they could end up in a law firm together.

I really need to see pictures of these men.

"at least one class entirely dedicated to rentier states, whee"

An appropriate level of enthusiasm for technical questions of political economy, delivered by an anxious academic.

DrDoug: Use this as a reference.

And my GPA is just fine, but why be just fine?

L: And I still detest hair colouring.

The photos really don't do it justice. Quite certain you'd make an exception in this case.

SP: Ooh, durable authoritarianism! Such fun. Is the focus on just bureaucratic/auth/populist states or ones like Saudi too?

Across the board. Oil/non-oil states.

E: that photo brings the word "suave" to mind.

also, I do so love that line of thought RE: your GPA. a woman with motivation, overachievement, and a healthy dose of hair colour makes for a deadly combination. how could any scummy banker or silly wanker resist?

Photos blah.

I detest hair colouring on the very principal.

In the meantime, I am brilliantly contributing to the last beautiful spiral to death of this firm. Why, I may even pull in some major business.

And tell the banker he should read Fooled by Randomness for personal insight, advice from an idiot who accidentaly became director of some half-assed fin ser firm.

Col-

Did the new title at least come with some perks ? More generous expense accounts? Additional secretaries ? Something ?

I'm enjoying a "cuban product" at present BTW. Hopefully, your medical regime has eased to the point where you can once again indulge freely.

My new title came with the perk of vastly increased authority over the way our business plan can be implemented.

And I suppose some more flexability on expenses, but looking at the numbers for my operating budget, I am not in a position to burn money unless I do a vastly increased amount of business.

I'd say I am 6-9 months away from getting the "shut the fucking thing down" message. Simply the regional market has not paid off, and given the inflexability, poor match, etc., I am at best going to stave off.

Have some new market ideas, debating whether it is worth it to go for broke, and see if I can convince them to go sub-Saharan Africa, after Carlyle did....

L: Photos blah.

I detest hair colouring on the very principal.

Wow, I can't even remember the last time we disagreed on something.

Still think I could turn you though.

"My new title came with the perk of vastly increased authority over the way our business plan can be implemented."

No small perk. One that should reduce pointless aggravation in favor of being aggravated by more substantive problems.