I have no idea what I will do next (after June). The most practical and probable option would be working as a nursing assistant in town for a while and applying to more schools next year but that doesn't guarantee anything considering my track record for impulsivity and impracticality.

For the sake of continuity consider yourself updated.

Recently I have had a lot of time on my hands. Aside from school, I spend a lot of time running and reading. Lately I've rekindled my interest in cultural/economic geography and in particular marxist geography. Geography of this sort is a synthesis of all of my overtly academic interests. If practicality were of no importance to me I would consider pursuing a graduate degree in it.

I was talking to a friend last night who told me about recent happenings in the economy on Dubai. Apparently they are bankrupt and many of the people that live their are massively in debt. Recently a phenomenon has started within the immigrant population where people will fly back to wherever they are from to start over and just leave their car parked at the airport. It seems in that corner of the world the financial system is not so integrated into daily living as to make evasion impossible. I wish it were that easy for those of us in this corner.

I sometimes have fantasies of the entire economic system collapsing to the point as to erase my debt. Perhaps a hyperinflation scenario that inflates the cost of a loaf of bread to 100,000 dollars like in Zimbabwe. Then being in debt for 75,000 dollars would just be an economic setback equivalent to losing your day pass on the bus. Of course I am probably being short sided here because the mass suffering and social strife that would accompany it would not be a good trade-off for feeling absolved of my student loans but assertions of reality such as this one do not have a place in fantasy.