{"id":52,"date":"2004-03-05T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2004-03-06T01:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2004-03-05T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2004-03-06T01:04:27","slug":"i-wonder-if-the-englargement-commissioner-has-anything-to-do-with-all-those-penile-dysfunction-spams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/05\/i-wonder-if-the-englargement-commissioner-has-anything-to-do-with-all-those-penile-dysfunction-spams\/","title":{"rendered":"I wonder if the englargement commissioner has anything to do with all those penile dysfunction spams."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I got in my third chapter of my thesis draft in this afternoon. Read all 63 pages of its working draft glory here<\/a> if you’re really interested.<\/p>\n

I had a great lunch with today in the City, at a place called Henry’s Hunan, just off 2nd, in the SoMa district. That was fun and I ate a lot. And it was spicy, too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

As Drezner<\/a> points out, there’s some problems going down<\/a> in the EU:<\/p>\n

Less than two months before 10 new member states join the European Union, it has emerged that about half have failed to translate the EU’s 85,000-page rulebook into their national languages.<\/p>\n

The embarrassing disclosure could have serious legal consequences, because EU laws are only enforceable in the new member states when written in the national tongue.<\/p>\n

Some countries began the vast translation exercise as long ago as 1996, but the complexity of the work – and a shortage of translators – has overwhelmed some accession candidates. “There is an urgent need for this to be done, or there will be problems in implementing EU law in some acceding states,” said a spokesman for G\u0178nter Verheugen, the EU enlargement commissioner.<\/i><\/p>\n

Speaking of the EU, apparently if I was an EU citizen, then I could go to LSE for a lot cheaper. Right now, tuition and room and board for a single year (it’s a year program) would cost northward of $40,000. My Dad talked to me on the phone during my morning commute this morning and told me to think about it “as an investment in my future”. I still think it’s a lot of money, and I still think that I’d rather get a job. After Spring Break, my big job blitz will begin. *sighs*<\/p>\n

Speaking of EU Citizenship, my friend Giselle who I met in Senegal (she goes to UPenn) has an Italian, Canadian and St. Lucian passport. Fuckin’ a. I’m picking her up at SFO in about two hours — she’s visiting for the week. <\/p>\n

Now that I look at that quote again, I wonder how many people snicker when G\u0178nter Verheugen tells people at parties that he’s the EU’s “enlargement commisioner.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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