Okay, so I may not be the best at blogging.

Blogging is sometimes a pain. I try, I swear I try. However, here I am a month late. I suppose you all should be happy I haven't blogged in awhile, it means I've been busy. Trying to pass on the Smith name, and genes (yeah for dating).

I finished my internship at State Street, it was a great internship. Luckily I was in a group that was really diverse. We dealt with equities, fixed income, real assets, and other types of investments. I mostly just got to see this from a distance, being an intern an what not I ended up doing intern work. Yep, stuff other people didn't want to do. Hopefully I wow-ed some people and end up getting a job. Portfolio Management wouldn't be such a bad gig, it just takes awhile to make it.

It looks like I'll end up having to get my CFA if I want to make a career in the asset management biz. It takes three years to finish it all up, more if you fail a test once, so I'll probably be at it for 5 years. Once you finish the CFA stuff you end up being paid fairly well. That is assuming our entire capitalist system doesn't explode (fingers crossed).

I dated a girl since Aprilish and we just parted ways. We were very different people. Part of it was I come from a family that teases and as it turns out some people don't communicate affection through teasing. I grew up in a family where stabbing someone with a pin meant you cared. Granted I never did this, but I'm always kind of expecting it. I suppose the teasing means everything is okay, when there isn't teasing there may be a problem.

Deep sea fishing was fun. I plan to go again soon. Unfortunately, all I caught were dogfish, a small shark creature. I will be returning to the sea shortly. I figure I have to go back until I finally catch something that I can keep. I suppose I could have kept one of those little sharks, but the crew of the boat seemed pretty keen on throwing them back. My guess is they aren't good eatin.

I'm excited for school to start up again. It'll be nice to be one step closer to being done. Who knows, I might even graduate in another recession, win! I just hope the financial sector isn't the one the is hurt the worst this time, I don't think it will be, but you never know.