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In any event I sit down at my desk which haz frickin crumbs all ova it cuz it is apparent that some asshole ate an English muffin here before I came into work. Or maybe someone ate a sandwich last night and tha cleaning crew didn’t manage to get to my fuckin desk. Or maybe tha union employee cleaning crew ate a fuckin sandwich at my desk. I wipe off the crumbs and put tha coffee on the desk and sit my ass in tha chair where it will stay 4 tha next 4 hours practically. Sometimes I hate this job tho I love it too. The other thing is that coffee iz an acquired taste 4 sure, I never liked it b4 but I wuz so wrecked comin into work that early I had to do somethin to perk up. Tried it first black but it wuz too bitter. Cream and sugar now. I don’t know how ppl can drink it any other way.

So sit down and already I have an IM from CN

trdrbear: How are you?

Well 2 things I think bout this. First of all we just got IM 2 months ago at tha firm and it iz tha worst thing in my life bcuz now all tha traders are pissed at me. I mean not jus me but all tha other sales ppl. Every1 wants to trade on IM and prices move quick and ppl are getting pissed. B4 IM obviously I picked up tha phone. That’s number 1. Number 2 is that CN is probably a little embarrassed bout last night and fishing. Yes. He probably remembers being a little drunk and calling me a sweetheart at the table. Well he should know that I am just 23 and I am not goin to put him in tha box or anything but he iz a nice guy and jus wants to make sure I am not pissed. I am not pissed.

nderivs: fine

I think about writing this:

nderivs: sweetheart

But I don’t. Instead I write:

nderivs: fun last night. Good 2 see u

Then he iz quiet, satisfied I am not pissed. He will b back tho. He likes to chat, in addition to trading.

I got other stuff 2 do anyway. I have 2 put my morning note together. This takes me a while. Tha powers that be are not real happy with me because I focus on macro stuff and nobody really cares about macro stuff. That iz to say that I care about economics and everyone else is just goofing around with earnings and whisper numbers and shiz like that. I cld care less. This is all noize. What really matters is tha fact that tha Fed just lowered rates in January. Sure tha Dow went up 500 points in a day (after being down 400 points) but that iz not tha real story. If tha Fed is lowering rates it is bcuz they know this market is going to gag. This iz not funny. Everyone knows this bitch iz a bubble.