So badly needing a break from my research work, I watched a movie last night called Source Code
Last week’s article, How NOT to Make a Financial Decision, was included in several blog carnivals, including:
- Carnival of Financial Camaraderie, hosted by One Smart Dollar, who chose the article as one of the editor’s picks!
- Top Personal Finance Posts of the Week, hosted by Personal Finance Whiz
- Carnival of Retirement, hosted by Portfolio Princess
- Financial Carnival for Young Adults, hosted by 20′s Finances
- Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by One Cent at a Time
- Carnival of Money Pros, hosted by Little Miss Moneybags
I also want to give a shout-out to Modest Money, Invest It Wisely, Bog of Debt, and The Outlier Model for including my articles in their weekly link roundups. Much appreciated!
The past week has been incredibly busy as I am working on some of the final experimental work for my thesis. So that means that my blogosphere reading has taken a direct impact. But there were a few articles that caught my eye and my attention.
- Prairie Eco-Thrifter, one of my favorite eco-friendly blogs and an inspiration for Earth and Money, is celebrating her two year blogging anniversary by giving away an iPad and more!
- One of these days, I will actually get off my butt and open a brokerage account somewhere, but I will likely only start with a little bit until I get the hang of it. Questrade is at the top of my list of companies to try, so I was very interested to read on The Outlier Model about how they are instituting a fee change that will drastically affect small-time investors.
- A guest poster on Modest Money talks about three internet side jobs for web-development inclined people.
I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend! I will probably be working through most of it, so you’ll likely all enjoy it more than I will 
On Sunday, I’m running a 10K charity race. Normally, this wouldn’t be much of an issue for me as I usually train year round and do multiple 10K’s a week. But last October, I very badly sprained my ankle and I only started running again in January. Since I basically had to rebuild my ankle from scratch, it has been a slow process. On top of that, I figured since I was starting from scratch anyways, might as well build up my ankle in the 
I had some great responses to Monday’s post, 
Its been an interesting week to say the least. Recently, one of my colleagues refused to accept the change that was imminent in his life. He was all set to graduate with his Master’s degree in hand. He needed only to make some simple revisions to his thesis and have his supervisor sign off on it before she flew out of the country for the next month. And yet, thus far, he has refused to make the changes. He has cited many reasons, but what I saw in his eyes was fear. Fear of the next step, of the change, of having to grow. Sometimes we think we’re ready for something, right up until the very moment it happens, and then we realize how very unprepared we are. When I was travelling, I went canyoning and at one point, we got to the top of a 50 foot waterfall. We were given the option to hike down the side of it, or jump off the cliff into the pool below. I was all ready to make the jump, until I got to the edge. Then fear gripped me by the arm and held me back. But sometimes you just have to jump, put your faith in yourself and hope for the best. I jumped that day, and it was one of the most exhilarating feelings of my life. Though I know it pales in comparison, I hope my colleague can make the jump he needs to make in his life.
This Sunday, April 22nd, its