Christmas Eve Dani and I went to her dad's to do the gift giving thing and hang out with the extended parts of that side of the family. It started out great with Dani's pop's wonderful, as always, grub and hanging out. Then Jan, Dani's stepmother started to get drunk. She's wonderful most of the time but she's a very very sloppy drunk. Everyone was ( Read more... )

With school being out I have nothing to drag my butt out of bed early so I've found myself falling back into my natural sleep schedule, which is to say that I've been seeing far too many dawns from the wrong end. While I happen to enjoy this the rest of the world doesn't work this way so I've got to try and curb this behavior.

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For about a year now I've been using a NEX II as my mp3 player. It's not a bad little device. It uses CompactFlash cards for storage and gets pretty good battery life. It does have a few shortcomings however, such as the fact that, while it claims to be a USB Storage Device, neither Mac OS X nor Linux can handle it properly so I use a CompactFlash ( Read more... )

I got a 4.0!!

w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Freedom!
No more school for almost a month. Bliss!

We've been chomping at the bit to get the new GTA sense it came out but I knew my GPA would take a hit. Now that school's over we picked it up tonight. Sweet baby Jesus the game is amazing! It is so detailed and huge compared to Vice City. I'll probably play during the days and Dani at night.

With mere seconds before having to turn in my report for tech today I page through it and notice that I put the last two pages in the wrong order when I stapled it. Oh well, too late to change it now ( Read more... )

Turned in the first of my final papers today then met up with Fran to finish the report for tech. With the report itself, references, and a page of PowerPoint slides it weighs in at 18 pages. I never want to have to think about core samples, split spoons, or mean deviations again for as long as I live. Just gotta turn that in tomorrow and then that ( Read more... )

I just can not get motivated today. I slept until past noon, have yet to work on the papers I need to write, nor have I studied for my final. I'm not depressed or anything, just feeling like a lump. I guess it's end of term apathy. At least the paper due tomorrow is done.

Below is a list of 110 banned books (banned either in this or another country at some point during the book's heyday).

Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you've partially read.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain#7 Gulliver's ( Read more... )