Bill's New Rock Band

So, I'm forming a new rock band. Actually, this has been an idea that another Darden student and I have had since we met at the beginning of last year. Unfortunately, things such as school and life got in the way. However, we're determined to get one of the ground by the time we graduate. I haven't been able to come up with a great name yet, but my ideas so far are "Darden Graduate School of Rock" (sure to be shot down at some point by the administration) or "Capitalist Pigs". I'm sure we could do worse in any case.

The songs we're going to play are probably a little off the wall, at least when put together. Did I mention the other Darden student is from Argentina? My only other experience with the musical taste of South Americans was seeing "Deep Purple" (think Smoke on the Water) spraypainted on a wall (in the color purple no less) and seeing about three thousand Iron Maiden t-shirts (I'm not kidding). So here are some of the ones we're thinking about, in no particular order:

• Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
• Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol (One guess who picked this one)
• Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan (If you need to guess who picked this one, I'd like to meet you sometime)
• Only Rock'n'Roll - The Rolling Stones
• Boys Don't Cry - The Cure (I think we have too many "The" bands on this list...)
• Tush - ZZ Top (I think I'll grow a beard just for this song)
• Crossroads - Cream

Well, you get the idea, and I'm tired so I'm going to sleep.

bill out

Three Weeks and Counting

I would like to announce my triumphant return to Charlottesville in about three weeks. I'm going to have my last day on August 1 (Friday). Alisa is coming out on Wednesday for another week (after five days straight of twelve hour shifts) but may be comatose by the time she gets here. So right now I'm trying to figure out if I've gotten all my financial aid straightened out. So much fun... really it is. So here's my first quarter schedule:

• Management Decision Models (lots of Excel and statistical regressions)
• Leadership Learning Lab (for club presidents on how to get people to do things when you have no actual authority)
• Valuation of Corporations (Using spreadsheets and wild guesses to figure out how much a company is worth... I'm not kidding about the wild guesses part)
• Corporate Financing (All 31 flavors of stocks and bonds)
• General Management and Operations Consulting (I have no idea... but it looked like fun)

So there you go. I'm actually excited to get back to school. I feel like I have so much more to learn. Wish me luck!

bill out