These past days have been full of catching up with good friends, hanging out, and, oh yes, school. A social life at TU can easily become a full time job. A gift, indeed. I'm glad I came back during JTerm, so as to take advantage of the more relaxed schedule to ease back into the swing.

Tuesday night marked an historical occurrence: attending a Metallica show in Detroit. After the four hour drive, Rosie, Elena and I finally made it to the nearly full arena. As soon as Metallica started playing, it was easily a packed arena. There were flames, lasers, moving lights mounted on giant coffins. Metallica being the band that it is, I feel I have checked something off the list of "To Dos" in my life.

I have also started reading Amity Shlaes' newest book, "The Forgotten Man," which is a history of the Great Depression. It's an entertaining, enlightening read. It's also relevant with the different theories floating around about our current economic malaise being similar to the 30's, comparisons between Obama and FDR and Obama wanting to be FDR (but who wouldn't? Pretty much everyone loves him because he fixed the economy. Maybe). One of the nuggets I have found is a case regarding a minimum wage law in DC in 1923. The case was called Adkins and it was overturned in the supreme court because the majorit saw it as violating individual's rights. What happened to this kind of sense? Why not let individuals and companies (which are composed of individuals) decide what their wages are?