Get back on the horse

Last week, I went to a rally with Vice President hopeful Senator Joe Biden in Colorado Spring, Colorado. He said something that seems obvious, has been said a million times - and yet perhaps for not other reason than he's a 'celebrity' his words have stayed with me for a week. My father used to say to me: when you fall off your horse, get back on!

In July, I started this blog with hopes of renewing the writing spirit within me. I failed. Another let down in what has been several let downs for me this past year. The real world was tough: I had not prepared myself adequately for many of the challenges facing a new college grad.

Instead of looking for a job six months before I graduated: I wanted to go back to Ecuador and work on the Shuar Health Project. I ended up finding a job after putting myself in much un-needed debt. I was let go after the holidays: I was a temp and the non-profit could not afford me full time.

I am now six months into working at a great immigration law firm in San Francisco. What makes it so great is not the work - which is challenging, if not exactly the kind of law I ultimately am headed towards - but the fact that a) I have the best boss I've ever had in 10 years of working, b) 3 of my friends from Cal work there.

So, instead of letting all of what has gone wrong get me down this past week - I am getting back on my horse. I will see if I can ride on toward my quest to hone and sharpen my writting skills.

The name of this blog: Macro and Micro is a reflection of how I often think. I have been accused of over-analyzing. Its true. I do my best to try to take into consideration the individual - or smaller (think cellular level) as much as I love analyzing trade and how this affects a society (think country aggregate level). We'll see how closely I stick to this, though I pretty much just wrote that "anything goes."

Ponying up.

-- MNM