September in Korean is called "Kuwol." September has a nickname in Japanese called "the long month," (長月) supposedly because night becomes longer than daytime after the Autumn equinox. Maybe purely concidentally, September in Chinese also means long month because the kanji letter "nine" has a homonym meaning "long month," which was the inspiration for MJ and I to hold our wedding on September 9, meaning "long long."
It certainly has felt like a long month. I started the month in the Bay area catsitting for our friend, then back to Los Angeles, then off to Chicago for what has been an awesome 2 weeks weather-wise in Chicago. Between those trips I've also taken 2 red-eye flights from LA to Chicago (not recommended in close quarters) and attended a wedding where the groom was Chinese and the bride was Korean (it's trending!) and spent a lot of time at work. But wrote in this blog! Yay! Stocks are also traditionally choppy in September and historically it's been one of the worst months, including the Sept. 19, 2008 day where the market crashed and fortunes were lost, a day I'll always remember sitting in the law library during first year of law school watching the stock tickers go down and my future as a potential corporate lawyer crumble with them (granted, my own faults were more a contributor there, but the economic crash didn't help). This month as been no different, with the Dow dropping large amounts in a single day on a few occasions, only to rally back the following few days, so it hasn't been horrible, and for anyone who owned Tilray this month (and didn't sell too early like me), it's been a wild and lucrative ride. After IPO'ing at 20+ just a month ago, today it hit 300!!!!!!!!! before falling back down and its stock stopped trading for a few minutes due to the large drop, something I've never seen from an individual stock. It's so tempting to get back in, and maybe I'll just dip a toe in with 5 shares or so, but my major holdings have to be with stocks with proven fundamentals, history of success, and bona fide business models.
September for whatever season also seems to be the month of new beginnings, whether it was the first full month of school for the new school year, starting a new job (my first job out of law school after passing the bar), moving to a new address, the start of the football season, the start of the fantasy baseball season, September's an action month, unhindered by too many holidays like December or January and not bogged down by the dog days of summer. "Summer has gone and passed."- Green day song. So true, when summer ends, suddenly you realize that a majority of the year has passed you buy, pretty soon it's going to be the holiday season, and days are getting shorter, gotta get something done! Let's end the year on a great note!
"Wake me up, when September ends!" -
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