The Wall Street Journal says the Dow sank!
Wow! I’ve never been one to write about the Dow Jones dip but here I am, concerned (a little bit) about how far it’s fallen.
I have never been much of a financial wiz but these days I am actually trying new things and this year it’s stock trading.
Damn, the Dow is down 226.47!
But the dirty little secret is that it’s really not all that bad (it’s really only -1.62%) and tomorrow I may just try my hand at some bigger stocks.
I’ve been piddling around with little stocks for a few weeks and for the first time in my life.
I am happy to say that I have earned close to $300 dollars (and haven’t lost a red cent…yet.)
Yes, I am doing my homework so I’m not as naïve and delusional as I sound.
I figure if I can learn this stock trading thingy then maybe I can support my stupid and compulsive need to write (because most of us know that’s not going to keep the lights on).
*plans to buy 100 shares of GE tomorrow*
posted by aWoman'sBlog @ 8:53 PM
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Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog! After reading so many blogs, it's exciting to have others visit my blog. I read through some of your recent blogs, and I wish you the best in your endeavors, be they stock trading or journalism school or writing in general. I sincerely wish you good writing times and spaces - please don't let "school" quash your writing spirit.
Labels - when you are posting new or editing a comment, on the bottom of the text box is an option for you to add in a label, any label you want. After I did that, I went to edit my page format, and was able to add a page element "labels". It's a nice sorting feature. Good luck!
Dear roller coaster teacher:
Your comments meant so much to me. Then I went back to your blog and reread your sidebar. That is what I taught my children. So, thank you for reminding me as I am having a strangely difficult time in school whereas before I loved it.
I was so happy to read what you said about school not quashing my writing spirit. I somehow have to find a way to accomplish this. How? I’m not sure yet but I’m sure I’ll figure it out (or I’ll just graduate, whichever comes first, as I only have six or seven courses to go).
I have been in school for a long time. I have always taken classes part-time when the kids were little.
Education was always a joy. Somehow that’s not the case right now and so I am perplexed. So, it was so nice to hear from a teacher that I need to remember not to let education take my joy from me.
(I wonder if you can know how special that comment is.)
And, speaking about teaching and education there’s another teacher’s blog that I’ve visited a few times so I will pass it on to you in case you’re interested.
You can tell her I sent you but she probably won’t remember me. I posted an excerpt of hers a while back. Just click on the “continued” link if you’re interested in meeting another teacher who is also a blogger.
She describes teaching in such a powerful way; I had to pass it along.
I took a few education classes in college. The papers can seem more routine than exciting to write. But I know you'll use your inspiration to plaster smiles of lots of kids faces. :D
JJ
Hi JJ: I wonder if I can really make any of the kids happy. Sometimes I feel like my ideas are so far from theirs. The good news is that I finally got that darned paper finished, which had been hounding me with the so-called "writer's block" all summer.
Some times I wish I never tried to go back to school for writing because it can take so much of the fun out of it. But oh well, I guess it's like that spoonful of medicine thing.
Thanks for your encouraging nature. It's been so nice. Sorry I haven't been back here in so long but as I posted in other comments, this past two weeks with the stock market have had me running scared. (Not to mention my newfound acceptance that I am a perimenopausal woman--this is going to be fun:)
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