Day 306: Interviews Interviews Interviews

 

November 2nd, 2011Today was the second day of a long and terribly painful sequence of interviews for my COGN150 class. In the morning, I went straight to EHS where I worked for a couple hours. Afterwards, I met up with Bee-John at Hi Thai even though I warned him not to get the food. He got it anyway and would ultimately regret it at the WTCC meeting, this week located at the Thich Nhat Hanh room. In attendance was Elviana, Nick, and Matt as we discussed away what to do in relation to the upcoming events: Disneyland and December Nights. Afterwards, I interviewed Nick about his childhood, and somehow we got into a distracting conversation about his involvement in Imports at UCSD, a random club where a bunch of car enthusiasts simply meet up and talk about cars. I snapped a picture of the beautiful room with an awe-inspiring quote attached to it. Afterwards, I met up with Victoria and we had our interview outside of the room on the second floor of the Student Center. I proceeded to Geisel, dropped off my stuff with Geetha, turned in my paper in my POLI113A class, and then went back to Geisel to study/relax for one hour before the immediate start of hours upon hours of interviews.

I first interviewed Michael Aranda outside Zanzibar, interviewed Marie Lea outside Zanzibar, interviewed Leah outside Zanzibar, interviewed Amy Elizabeth on the second floor of the commuter lounge, interviewed John Cuellar outside the commuter lounge, and eventually interviewed Rashika outside of Zanzibar. I got mixed responses from all of them, but I should have the basic material needed to make a merely adequate documentary. I went to Geetha’s place afterwards to relax for a bit, as we shuttled on over to the bus stop. Alexis picked me up, we went to Phil’s and exchanged stories before I went back home to change. YUM EL TORO. I ended the night studying and hanging out with Geetha.

The Hughes Flying Boat—the largest aircraft ever built—is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. Built with laminated birch and spruce, the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men to battle.Howard Hughes was a successful Hollywood movie producer when he founded the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932. He personally tested cutting-edge aircraft of his own design and in 1937 broke the transcontinental flight-time record. In 1938, he flew around the world in a record three days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes. EH OVERRATED.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke once again is center stage on Wall Street, as the Federal Open Market Committee meets this week. Will investors be greeted by some big news from Bernanke? Will we see a big market response thanks to some insights from the Fed’s leader or any of its representatives? Highly unlikely. The sad reality is the Fed just doesn’t have a whole lot left to offer — aside from being the punching bag of Ron Paul and other critics. And to be completely honest, Bernanke and the rest of the Fed don’t really seem all that interested in making a lot of noise right now. Rather the central bank is simply contenting itself with defending its track record and pointing to a hopeful future. FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL.

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