The Syndicate

And sometimes I like to talk about music.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:And sometimes I like to talk about music.

Who doesn't?

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:And sometimes I like to talk about music.

Who doesn't?

Stop making sense!

Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that.

He has a new release, Return to Ommadawn.

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that.

He has a new release, Return to Ommadawn.

I am scared to listen because Ommadawn is a great album and I don't know how it compares.

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that.

He has a new release, Return to Ommadawn.

Oh wow, somehow I wasn't aware of that yet. I should check it out.

A Person wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that.

He has a new release, Return to Ommadawn.

I am scared to listen because Ommadawn is a great album and I don't know how it compares.

Pretend it's called something else then and has nothing to do with Ommadawn. Then listen.

Epignosis wrote:

A Person wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that.

He has a new release, Return to Ommadawn.

I am scared to listen because Ommadawn is a great album and I don't know how it compares.

Pretend it's called something else then and has nothing to do with Ommadawn. Then listen.

That's exactly what I intend on doing, since otherwise I'd have problems with comparing it too. Ommadawn is my favorite Oldfield album for sure.

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music.

Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music!

Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that.

He has a new release, Return to Ommadawn.

I had no idea! Thanks for the heads-up. I will eventually give it a listen. I love music!

Today I sent our CPA the financial documents for the third and final entity in our company. All I have to do for taxes now is answer follow-up questions. Weight lifted.

G-Man wrote:Today I sent our CPA the financial documents for the third and final entity in our company. All I have to do for taxes now is answer follow-up questions. Weight lifted.

Nice! I know how it feels to be the CPA on the other side of that, and it's pretty great when clients actually get you their stuff before March.

My Dad was a CPA, and we barely saw him from New Years till 4/15. Unless we worked for him filling out tax forms, which all of us kids did at one time or another.

G-Man wrote:Today I sent our CPA the financial documents for the third and final entity in our company. All I have to do for taxes now is answer follow-up questions. Weight lifted.

How are those biceps?

S~V~S wrote:My Dad was a CPA, and we barely saw him from New Years till 4/15. Unless we worked for him filling out tax forms, which all of us kids did at one time or another.

Yeah, that's absolutely one of the main reasons I quickly decided I'd rather go into academia than work at a CPA firm the rest of my life. Job satisfaction was the biggest reason (I really enjoy teaching and feel I'm making a difference with it), but I'm not going to lie that work-life balance for those four months out of the year was a huge consideration, especially for when I'll be raising a family. I just didn't want to be gone from my family's lives for a third of every year. Academia still keeps me very busy and I'm sure will until at the very least I get tenure, but nearly everything is self-driven and reflects only upon me. So even when the workload is massive, my time is pretty flexible (and I can work from 9pm-2am or 4am-8am or whatever on research or class prep if that's when I want to work on it) except for the hours during which I teach and have office hours and then occasional meetings and service stuff. It's definitely better than being busy as fuck in a flurry of four months like that.

I think people would be horrified if they knew how many of their tax returns were actually prepared by the teenage children of CPA's, lol. He instructed us and reviewed everything we did, but back in the day when it was all handwritten or typed, no online, yeah. I filled out alot of peoples taxes ha ha

But he did make enough money those four months to work quasi part time the rest of the year until he also started doing financial planning and mortgage brokerage.

And I spoke too soon. While driving home from the office, I realized I still have to determine our sales and wages expenses in the state of Maryland so our CPA can do our Maryland return as well. It should only take me an hour to do but still... thanks a lot Maryland.

It took me two days, but I solved a Rubik's Cube for the first time ever.

Yay!!

Epignosis wrote:It took me two days, but I solved a Rubik's Cube for the first time ever.

Nice! I wouldn't have the patience.

I've been in one relationship in my life. Yesterday we hit two years together.

Sloonei wrote:I've been in one relationship in my life. Yesterday we hit two years together.

Super kewl, George Slooney. Let me know what kind of magic you had to learn; I'm behind your pace.

I was accepted into a PhD program today. It's a weight lifted.

I'll trade magic secrets with you. Finding a master's program to accept me is my singular goal right now.

Congratulations, Mr. JimmyJay. What will you be studying and when can we start calling you Dr. JimmyJay?

Added to Sloonei's questions, where will you be studying JJJ?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Sloonei wrote:I've been in one relationship in my life. Yesterday we hit two years together.

Super kewl, George Slooney. Let me know what kind of magic you had to learn; I'm behind your pace.

I was accepted into a PhD program today. It's a weight lifted.

Congrats!!!

That whole process is hell incarnate. So glad it's over. Kick some ass.

The acceptance is from Wright State in Dayton, Ohio. If that's where I end up it'll be for experimental psychology, specifically a field called "human factors" which specializes in sensory input and response.

Oh God our Mafia games are data

Epignosis wrote:Oh God our Mafia games are data

The ethics review boards were surprisingly eager to allow me to make you all my unwitting guinea pigs.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:The acceptance is from Wright State in Dayton, Ohio. If that's where I end up it'll be for experimental psychology, specifically a field called "human factors" which specializes in sensory input and response.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Oh God our Mafia games are data

The ethics review boards were surprisingly eager to allow me to make you all my unwitting guinea pigs.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I was accepted into a PhD program today.

You have my sympathies.

Golden wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I was accepted into a PhD program today.

You have my sympathies.

It's not that bad...

*slinks away and cries*

Bravo's Sloon and Jay! I don't (or didn't) excel at either, but hope you will manage to maintain a smooth as possible sail with yours.

Whoa I just got accepted to another one. I chewed my finger nails off for two months praying for one and now I get two in a couple hours.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Whoa I just got accepted to another one. I chewed my finger nails off for two months praying for one and now I get two in a couple hours.

Which one do you prefer?

Golden wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Whoa I just got accepted to another one. I chewed my finger nails off for two months praying for one and now I get two in a couple hours.

Which one do you prefer?

I don't know.

There are pros and cons to consider. It's a good problem to have though. I approve of the 9th of March, 2017 AD.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I approve of the 9th of March, 2017 AD.

As do I.

I've got no complaints about the day so far. Kudos x2 to you, Jay. Tudos. And Kudos x33 to G-man.

Congrats JJJ what a great problem to have!

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Whoa I just got accepted to another one. I chewed my finger nails off for two months praying for one and now I get two in a couple hours.

Can I just say, "I told you so!"



Also congratulations!

So I got my first ever paper accepted into a conference for presentation. I'm going to the AAA (that's American Accounting Association for those of you who still immediately think of the auto company when you see that ) Southeast Regional Conference in late April, and I guess I'll be presenting my second year paper (which at this point looks like it'll be gobbled up into one of the essays in my dissertation).

It's at the "kiddy table" presentations (Dialogue instead of Paper Session), so I was actually slightly disappointed yesterday, but I really can't complain. It was accepted, I'll get to network with folks, and at least I hopefully will get some valuable feedback on my paper nonetheless.

Baby steps, at least.

Big deal. I presented a paper there once. It was called, "Money: It's a Gas. Grab that Cash with Both Hands and Make a Stash"

Epignosis wrote:Big deal. I presented a paper there once. It was called, "Money: It's a Gas. Grab that Cash with Both Hands and Make a Stash"

Congrats MP! What exactly does it mean that it's "dialogue" instead of "presentation"?

juliets wrote:Congrats MP! What exactly does it mean that it's "dialogue" instead of "presentation"?

The session will be run a bit differently. I'll have like 10-15 minutes to present my paper instead of 20-25, and I'll have to share my time with like 4 other papers instead of 1-2. The dialogue session is designed more for papers that aren't as ready for publication so there's also a dialogue moderator that will try to spur conversation regarding suggestions. The time slot also will probably be a bit less favorable (like really early in the morning or the end of the afternoon). That's it though.

Really it's not much different. They emphasize that the reviewers still review the papers as rigorously as for the normal paper sessions, so assuming that's true, I should get at least as much valuable feedback as I would otherwise. It just has a "kiddy table" perception because we all know the papers that aren't quite as good but they still want presented get shoved into the dialogue sessions after the regular sessions are all taken up.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So I got my first ever paper accepted into a conference for presentation. I'm going to the AAA (that's American Accounting Association for those of you who still immediately think of the auto company when you see that ) Southeast Regional Conference in late April, and I guess I'll be presenting my second year paper (which at this point looks like it'll be gobbled up into one of the essays in my dissertation).

It's at the "kiddy table" presentations (Dialogue instead of Paper Session), so I was actually slightly disappointed yesterday, but I really can't complain. It was accepted, I'll get to network with folks, and at least I hopefully will get some valuable feedback on my paper nonetheless.

Baby steps, at least.

Can I submit a question about your paper to the conference?

If you want to fly to Miami and attend, sure.

You're presenting to alcoholics?