A lot has been going on around here lately! And that is what I am going to attribute my lack of posts to--- I've been too busy watching my back and ducking for cover! I wanted to just write a little note and say, we will return to regularly scheduled programming shortly. :) Bear with me and stay tuned for new wine recommendations and other musings. Until then!
Misery Loves Cabernet
In Vino Veritas......
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
METRO READ Ugly Americans- Ben Mezrich
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Ugly Americans is about a Princeton Alumni named John Malcolm (a pseudonym), who ends up working as an assistant daytime trader in Japan, after a fluke meeting at a Princeton football game(Malcolm played for the Princeton). Basically this book highlights a time in the 1990's where American Hedge Fund Cowboys were taking advantage of loopholes that existed in the outdated and inefficient Japanese Stock Market-- the Nikkei. The Yakuza, which is basically the Japanese mob gets involved, and things get dodgy. There's also a sideline developing love story between Malcolm and a native Japanese girl named Sayo. I'd say-o there's something for everyone in this book.
Monday, April 4, 2011
New job, new beginnings...new commute.
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The commute, you can imagine has been an adjustment. But it is not without its perks. I've always been a big reader-- but through grad school I became only a big purchaser of books. I have quite a collection built up of things I wanted to read, but would put up on the shelf-- "when I finish grad school I'll read this." Well, the time is now. My kindle is working overtime, and it's nice to sort of escape in the morning. When I finish a book, my first instinct is to share it with someone else, so I thought, well, why not include it in MLC? A sort of Metro Book Review. So stay tuned for my latest Metro Reads along with my wines (and sometimes whines) of choice......
Inexcusable...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The FIRST Wine Wednesday of 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Unemployment and why Oprah is the answer....
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Now stay with me for a second because I have to switch gears....I got a GPS for Christmas (Thanks Dustin!) and for the life of me I can't figure it out. I read the book, followed the instructions and all seems to be working except for one catch; my GPS thinks I'm in Chicago, Illinois. Now, you can read into this however you want; I choose to think that my GPS is guiding me; it is as if my GPS is whispering..."Go, be with Oprah, in the windy city.....gooooo......Oprahhhhhh." I mean my GPS may not be telling me where I am, but perhaps it is telling me where I need to go.
I have a fortune telling, prophet like, GPS.
This is the only conclusion I can draw.
Chicago or Bust.... (Oprah I'll text you when I get there! xo)
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Wine Wednesday Resumes!!!
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