The Hard-Nosed Dreamers

April 22, 2008

I’m starting to have fun.

I attended a Senate public hearing for the second time early this morning. It was about the bills proposing to build a railroad in Mindanao to stimulate its flagging economy by producing jobs and incentives for the industries in the far South to produce more. If you know me, you should know that I hate hate hate HATE going to any formal event where people other than myself get to talk for extended periods of time; this includes fora and symposia at the University where (if I have the choice) I walk out fifteen minutes after the start of the program. I have a short attention span—this is a fault, sure, but it saves me a lot of time. College life is too short to waste a third of it on uninspiring forums.

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