Merigoesaround

Life is a succession of uneasy compromises.

I was peacefully watching TV with Rob, my hedge-fund roomie, when the CNN lady started interviewing a representative of the United Nations Commission for the Peaceful Uses of the Outer Space. I suddenly felt in a far away galaxy. Let me rewrite that again: the UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION FOR THE PEACEFUL USES OF THE OUTER SPACE. Rob looked at me and said: 'hey ya, how many joints do you think you need to smoke to work there?' Rob does not understand the extraterrestrial powers of bureaucracies. Pfff. http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/

The phrase “I can’t do it” should not be part of our vocabulary. Instead, we should think “I can’t do it alone.”

"Because I do not have time and because Facebook makes me feel uncomfortable and gives me bad vibes I have decided to close my Facebook account. You can find me in my email xyz@gmail.com". I recently received this email from a friend. Another friend recently wrote in his status : "X....might close his Facebook account". Is Facebook making me feel uncomfortable? Does it give me bad vibes? The answer is no and no. Or not yet. However, I can understand that Facebook might bring trouble to the lives of some individuals. Another good friend of mine tells me that she can't but feel terrible jealousy at the sweet comments crowding her boyfriends' Facebook wall. This same couple had a bad argument when she found her boy spending more than...let's say...2 seconds staring at the pictures of a Facebook girl friend of his. My friend's behavior is probably unrelated to Facebook...but this 'social utility', let's jargoon baby, makes the number of occas...

In the midst of crisis menus at restaurants, anti-crisis sales in the shops, my crisis-monitoring surveys at work, a crisis-shot served at the club around the corner...I found this anti-crisis proverbia: In a land with no credit, the man with cash is king. Read: Those who have accumulated cash, good for you...those who haven't...save. I think some of us would like to start feeling crisis-blind. Down with crisisphilia. Remove the word 'crisis' out of our work, our reading and our news program. I like to think of myself as an optimist...but this crisis is as bad as it looks. If I go back in time, my political, economic gray matter stores the Asian crisis, the Mexican one, the fallout of Argentina...but I do not remember those days having major impact in the US or Europe, I do not remember those as vox populi crisis, they were matters for academic discussion. This crisis is a shared one. At least psychologically. We all have a friend currently looking for a job and not finding...