The University tower is above everything we are doing. It’s so strange; the course is over; we have moved; plans and dreams have changed; but the tower is there. Actually, it’s become closer, we can see it out of the window, and at night, when everything is quiet, we can hear it toll.
We’ve had quite a few parties recently. We have a million friends, mainly Rishab’s; we can’t invite a million at once, so we have been doing it in portions. I’ve quite enjoyed it, actually; all I do is spend the day cooking, and light the candles between main course and dessert. I love it.
The dissertation is going pretty badly, I have to say. I’ve done about half of my literature review and decided to stop doing that and start the empirical part. I would like to look at the oil prices, RTS index, petroleum index and the residual index, and see correlations between these things, comparing different periods. However, I need to use cointegration for that, which I have no idea how to use. So I am very confused actually. I’ll simply read all the papers I have which explore Russian financial markets and see if I can do anything similar with different series. I’m quite concerned about the data and method.
It took me two hours to post this. I don’t know what happened; I’ve experienced technical problems with my blogs for two days. Exhausted; I’ll think about something better to write and do it tomorrow. Or day after. (I think I should start a ‘procrastinators’ blog’)
1 Comment
Tuesday, 31 July 2007 at 2:43 pm
Make it a collective blog…I’ll be the first to join!