Argh...

Tomorrow I'm going to Bethlehem to do an exam in macroeconomics.

Today I've been drinking lots of tea to stay warm and awake while studying. Tea goes right through me, more so than alcohol, which means I've been running to the toilet all day.

Now would be one of those times if it hadn't been for the fact that my new roommate (a girl, moved in yesterday) has decided this is a good time to occupy the bathroom. She's in the shower.

And I need to pee!!

Lectures

ECON210 Welfare and Economic Politics
Tuesdays 12:15-14:00 (22.08.2006 - 14.11.2006) NB: every second Tuesday
Fridays 12:15-14:00 (25.08.2006 - 08.09.2006, 22.09.2006 - 17.11.2006)
Venue: L. Meltzers hus, Biggest auditorium

ECON230 Macroeconomics II
Mondays 08:15-10:00 (21.08.2006 - 04.09.2006)
Tuesdays 12:15-14:00 (29.08.2006, 26.09.2006, 10.10.2006, 24.10.2006, 07.11.2006, 21.11.2006)
Fridays 08:15-10:00 (22.09.2006 - 27.10.2006, 10.11.2006 - 24.11.2006)
Venue: L. Meltzers hus, Biggest auditorium

Fredag 10:15-12:00 (03.11.2006)
Venue: Dragefjellet (Law department), Auditorium 3

ECON240 Statistics and Econometrics
Wednesdays 12:15-14:00 (23.08.2006 - 06.09.2006, 20.09.2006 - 22.11.2006)
Venue: Realfagbygget, Auditorium 1
Thursdays 08:15-10:00 (24.08.2006 - 07.09.2006, 21.09.2006 - 23.11.2006)
Venue: L. Meltzers hus, Biggest auditorium



Is it just me or does this seem rather confusing?

I should be used to the Uni's way of making everything as complicated as possible but I never seem to be quite prepared. I was planning on putting together a schedule of what a normal week would look like, but by the looks of this it seems there will be no such things as a normal week.

Looking closer, I can see I'll be starting at 8:15 three days a week. I can already say I'll be missing a few lectures this autumn... Not on purpuse (never on purpose), but if I have to get up at 6:30 I know there will be times I fall asleep two seconds after I turn the alarm clock off...

I just love sleeping too much...
Gotta find someone who can help by kicking me out of bed.

Waaaahhh!

My last exam is Wednesday, which means I am supposed to be studying. And I do try. From time to time. For those of you who have yet to experience the endless fascination of micro economics, I am here to tell you there is no such thing.

It might be fun if I had more time to study it but since I have 250 pages and 2 days to learn them (much of which will be wasted online), it is not so much fun.


Doesn't make it better that my family is in Sweden for the weekend and keep calling to tell me how much fun they're having.

Which only serves to remind me I might not be able to get out of the country at all this year. That hasn't happened for 10 years and I'm not too keen on it happening now.


Bloody Cobb-Douglas production functions...

Erotic Economics?

There was a clitoris in the sink today.
Well, it probably wasn't, but it sure looked like one.


The past days I've been sitting outside reading. A week ago we had 25 degrees and July appeared to have come. Sitting outside I'm able to concentrate a whole lot better than inside where my mind starts drifting. I thought guys were the ones who were supposed to think about sex every four minutes? To me it happens every time the book gets boring. How often that is? It's economics, you do the maths.

F(cK,cL) = 2(cK)(cL) = c²2KL = c²F(K,L).

The result of multiplying each input by c in this production function is thus to multiply the original output level by c². Output thus grows more than in proportion to input growth in this case [with proportional growth, we would have had output equal to cF(K,L)], so this production function has increasing returns to scale. Thus, for example, if c = 2 (a doubling of each input), we get F(2K, 2L) = 2(2K)(2L) = 4(2KL), a quadrupling of output.


...mmm... somewhere warm... outside... it would be fun to... and the guy could... mmm.... careful no one is watching... oh yeah right there! could I... with you.... do you like that?


I don't think this is entirely my fault though, my mind drifting off like that. Not the fact that it's boring, not in itself, but it's what we actually have to learn. They are clearly intentionally leading perfectly innocent and proper young women astray, making us read about things such as KINKED CONSTRAINTS and the INPUT-OUTPUT RELATIONSHIP. It's preposterous!


Oh honey, I love your Long-Run Expansion Path!

Applications of Rational Choice and Demand Theories

Who says economics has to be realistic?

5. Jane spent all her income on hot dogs and caviar. Her demand curve for caviar was inelastic at all prices for caviar. Unfortunately, an accident at a nuclear power plant caused the supply of caviar to fall and the price to rise. What happened to Jane's consumption of hot dogs?

12. Crusoe will live this period and the next period as the lone inhabitant of his island. His only income is a crop of 100 coconuts that he harvests at the beginning of each period.

Although some of it does make sense:

Factors Accounting For Differences In Time Preference
Uncertainty regarding the future is one reason to prefer current to future consumption. In countries at war, for example, people often live as though there were no tomorrow, as indeed for many of them there will not be.

Microeconomics and Behavior, Robert H. Frank

Email from the professor

Someone (yes, a man) attending the econ 110 class borrowed some books on game theories from me. The person now blushing has to come and return them.

Searching:

• 1 person from Slovakia, preferrably with knowledge about Slovak foreign policy

• 1 person from Uganda

• 1 person with knowledge as to what Slovakia feels towards the situation in Northern Uganda

• 1 UN diplomat (preferrably a representative in the Security Council)

• 1 secretary to explain me all the SC rules and procedures

• 1 maths wiz

• 2-3 persons to explain what the maths wiz is saying

• 1 person to explain my calculator to me

• 1 person to attend my lectures this week

• 1 person who looks like me to attend my work group on Friday

• 1 person to hunt down and bring back (preferably alive) one student (name will be provided)

• 1 person to help me with my microeconomics paper due this Friday

• 1 person to find out where I can print things now they've closed the computer lab

• 1 person to go shop for clothes fit for wearing to the UN Security Council

• 1 person to attend 2-3 meetings being held for the Human Rights week
  

• 1 person to get 3 passport photos with my picture on them

• 1 person to write an application and my resume

• and write it good

and finally...

• 1 person to book a hairdresser appointment, go there in a place to have my hair cut and coloured (I realize that might be a tricky one..)

If you are interested, please send me an email or leave a comment. The work will last from 9 am Monday through 2pm Friday. You will receive no pay in form of money, however, you are free to suggest other forms of compensation.

Thank you.

A guy

Yesterday I noticed a guy sitting a couple rows in front of me in Macroeconomics. He was wearing a bright red sweater that said 'Czechoslovakia.........' something I didn't understand, in Czech. He looked strangely familiar.

Today he was there again, sitting on the row in front of me, again wearing a shirt that said something I didn't quite get.

Now, it's not unusual to see guys during lectures. I'll have you know there are quite a few guys attending economics lectures. Not a whole lot of cute guys, but guys nonetheless. This guy was cute though. But that's not it.

He looked strangely familiar. Of course I could have seen him a few months ago during another class but he didn't look that kind of familiar. It was almost like it was strange seeing him in that setting.

It wasn't even like I immedeatly recognized the guy, there was just something about him. And actually I didn't recognize him - I still can't remember where or what, how or why...


Knowing me I'm probably just looking for something mysterious to occur while reality will bump me on the head when I see him tomorrow and remember "ohh... he was in my work group thingy, that's all..."

To be or not to, baby.

Fertility declines everywhere appear to be accompanied by a significant increase in contraceptive use. We must be careful here to not infer any sort of causal link, but the increased recourse to contraception is indicative of an accompanying social transformation.

Debraj Ray, Development Economics

Well I didn't think the reason was they all stopped having sex...