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- Financial news: Okay, Lehman's declaring bankruptcy. Merrill and AIG ae scrambling to avoid same. The gov't is taking control they should have never given up in the first place of Fannie and Freddie. Gas is spiking again because of Ike. I don't know to what degree any of you follow financial stuff, but it's hard to miss when you live in NYC even if that sort of shit has no direct impact on your life. Anyway. This shit is bad. And it wil trickle down, even if just via sentiment. Sentiment can fuck an economy.

- Another lovely day on Governors' Island. Some of redstapler's friends took fabulous pictures of me and I finally got to meet Ifan. Meanwhile, Michael Aranella and his Dreamland Orchestra can't possibly imagine how much Torchwood porn I'm going to write listening to this utterly scrumptous CD. There's nothing like a slutty tuba and a sleazy trombone.

- I love Trader Joe's. Today: 2 boxes of mini tacos, 1 pack of garlic sausage, 2 jars of salsa, 2 frozen enchilada lunches, 2 boxes of candy, 1 pould of ground beef: $30. That's like 12 meals and snacks for me.

- Patty got me a documents box today in this awesome burnt umber color and it looks flash and I can divide it up into sections for my various correspondence and yay.

- True Blood in a moment and then some work before bed.

- Really damn nice weekend.

- I still need to catch up on email.

Comments

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I follow the financial stuff (job-related, I'm a financial journalist for private equity and I'm based in the London office). Anything that happens in the US has major repercussions on the UK. And it's ... interesting times. The boyfriend works at an investment bank (he's their IT guy - and this particular bank is quite pleased, because they are small and suffered pretty much no exposure). But the nood is very different even here in London. O_O