Compos Mentis

My Life, as I know it

Yes.
Yes yes yes.
etc., and so forth.
I see the pattern, but I can't stop it.
I guess I'm just an evil person.

Thanksgiving was excellent. I recommend the train to anyone who wants to travel about halfway around the country, for those trips that are too long for cars and not worth blowing a fortune on a flight. The train is far more comfortable as long as you're not too worried about being on time to anything, because without fail it will be late to where ever you are going.
Seeing Beth and Paul again was awesome. As all of you know, I try really, really hard to keep up with everyone, but I fail miserably most of the time. I found everything well with them and got some great news that will mess up my fall schedule horribly. But I'll deal with it.
The last part of the semester was pretty good. I kind of ran out of steam at the end but it turned out that I had just enough to get over the really tough bits. My Japanese finals were pretty terrifying, but I pulled off an A- in the class (for the first time!) and finally got a general idea of what it might be like to understand the language.
Then Christmas break came. It was fairly decent, I didn't do a whole lot but it was worthwhile just to be able to read the books I wanted rather than the books I was assigned. Christmas itself was good as ever, but it's kind of sad to say that the coolest present I got was socks. They were what I really needed.
And now I'm back, from outer space- I came back to find that same stupid look upon your face. Though my roomate tried to change the stupid lock, tried to throw away key, he was still there to bother me. Still, I will survive.
And now I wonder whether anyone will understand the reference.
My first day of classes was today. I think I'm going to make it, though I also think that pretty nearly exactly all of them will be either terrifically exciting or incredibly, incredibly boring. Like Hist. 353: Eastern Europe after 1863. Who wouldn't find that exciting?
OK. I guess only I would find that exciting.
But I could find that exciting, except for the fact that my prof.'s voice nearly put me to sleep. I could tell he was really excited about his subject, but his voice was nearly expressionless. Plus it was after Discrete Structures, which is essentially mathematical logic. Who wouldn't be bored by any class after that one?
OK, I guess it's just me again.
On another note, I used to think that I was doing so well. I had no TV, no video games, and no really easy food for a year and a half. And what have I become addicted to? Diablo 2, and Mario Kart. I'm actually going to go off and play the latter.
I promise I'll be better this time.

posted by Emmett @ 14:47