The Reds and the Blues and the Yellows

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The Yacht and Booze Club Inaugural River Crawl

Facts:
MiFs can throw an awesome party. Take that MBAs!
Booze makes everything fun.
Booze + boat = fun x 2
From there, I think the growth rate of fun is exponential.
Discounting the cash flow, the NPV is definitely positive.

Conclusion:
Partying on the Thames was a brilliant idea.
I had a great - great - great time.
I miss my kickball buddies, I know they would love this sort of thing.

Loku...nana...hachi...kyu!

(That means six...seven...eight...nine for anybody who's wondering)

Yeah, it's been a while. And I must say things have been going well. Really well.

I moved to London about a month ago. The flight of course was a pain in the ass. One because of the liquid/gel crapola. Two, because my actual flight was cancelled, cancelled after I waited around at the airport for three freakin' hours.

Packing wasn't the funnest experience either. I've said it before, but I'll say it again: it's just amazing how much junk you accumulate during your life. I boxed most of the remnants of my Richmond life away at Luke's, and packed the few things that I have left in three suitcases. So glad my mum was there with me, or I'm probably still packing away in Richmond right now.

London is as fantastic as I expected. During this one month period, I made more friends than I had in the eight years I've lived in the States. My fellow MiFs are just as awesome, nice, and friendly as they can be. The programme itself is ridiculously back-breaking. We're moving through two 1,000-page textbook in less than five weeks, with a valuation project and 10 assignments due during the same five weeks. Adding to the nice pile of shit we have is the milkround process. Company presentations are definitely not as grand as I thought they are, and cover letters are definitely pain in the arse X 2.

Still I love it. I couldn't have made a better decision.