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March 9, 2005 - Two weeks this time

I'm going to pretend that the reason I haven't updated this in so long is because there's been nothing to say - not that I'm just lazy and generally good for nothing. Yeah, that sounds good.
So, what's happened over the past two weeks? ... Not altogether that much, truth be told. It's been wonderful, though. After getting a little bit of Senior Design stuff out of the way and finalizing a couple of other school-related things, I've been on serious cruise control. It's been awesome; I've basically sat around and played an awful lot of Grand Theft Auto. Dropping that class really turned this semester around for me, and I totally love having very little to do. Of course, I have a project due and a test in my computer graphics class tomorrow, so I'm not totally in the clear. But even with the things that I still have to do, I just find myself not caring. It's kind of refreshing.
Like I said, there's really not that much to report. Spring Break is next week, and I leave for Florida in a mere three days. I have my gear, my camera case, and everything else, so I'm pretty much set, and very excited about it. This year I have a case so I can use my camera underwater, so be expecting a lot of quality pictures when I return. I guess this is my last big vacation, per se, before heading out to the "real world", so I plan on making the most of it.
I'll try and put up one more update before I leave - oh, and enjoy the POTD's from a recent party at King's.

March 12, 2005 - Leaving!

I'm on my way out the door to gorgeous Key Largo, Florida for a week for Spring Break! There will be many, many, many pictures upon my return!
Hope everyone enjoys the week :)

March 20, 2005 - And I have returned

I'm offically back from Florida, and will have pictures up soonish. Bear with me if it takes a couple of days, as I'm still really screwed up from our 6:30AM (!) flight out of Miami.
In the meantime, back to it...

March 23, 2005 - Drum roll please

I finally made a little bit of time to get these pictures taken care of! So, I proudly present to you Spring Break 2005 pictures and the underwater pictures. Be absolutely sure to check out those underwater ones, as there's some seriously cool stuff in there. Man, going through all those pictures (419 of them!) made me want to go back.
But for now, I'm stuck in Iowa and have boatloads to do. Not doing anything over break or for the first couple days back might end up biting me. I'm trying to plug away at it, but I'm really starting to lose the little motivation I had. I think I'm getting more and more excited about my impending move to Washington, which also implies getting more and more excited about getting out of here. It's not as bad as all that, of course; I just wish I had more time to slack off and play games. But then, who doesn't?
Anyhow, with the major update and obligatory pictures out of the way, I might not get back around to this for a few (read: many) days. On the plus side, the POTD's are back again, and I managed to fill in all the POTD's that I missed, so check those out too.

March 27, 2005 - Weekends rule

Look, look! An update, less than two weeks after the last one! Man, I surprise myself sometimes.
So this weekend was awesome. If you count Friday afternoon (which I do, since my class was cancelled), then this weekend included: Two high-quality naps, a game of poker, some South Park, a couple decent movies, the year's first round of golf, and my first-ever trip to a shooting range. Madd props to Adam for the vast majority of those things. The only depressing one among those was the round of golf today; after being one over for the first three holes (double, birdie, par), I ended up seventeen over for the next six holes. Extremely harsh. But since this was the first decent weather day in Ames in forever, and I managed to get out on the golf course in the first place, it's not all so bad.
Nothing much else to be reporting. I have a good deal of work to be doing, of course, but what else is new? I'll get it all done, of course, but it'll all wait until the last minute. I'm just too lazy recently to do anything ahead of time. Example: I have an essay exam due in ... six hours that I just finished. I started it earlier today, before golf - and I consider that an advance start.
It's supposed to hit 70 degrees tomorrow, so I think that some frisbee golf might be in order. I can only hope.
Oh, and be sure to check the POTD for the next week or so - some previously unreleased Spring Break pictures await you!

March 31, 2005 - Not just updating to put off homework, I promise...

So this week, and the next couple of weeks, suck. Senior design decided that it would be awesome if we could have our semester-long status report due, all the new development on our project due, and give our in-class presentation, all within about five days. And oh yeah, guess what, you have other classes too! Apparently no one bothered to tell our senior design professors that part, though. Speeches, papers, and programs continue to happen. And the funny thing is that this really isn't even a rough semester, compared to last fall. It's just that I ... well, I don't care anymore. Almost nothing I'm doing is relevant or enjoyable, and it doesn't affect my future at all. I just want to get through it all and get it out of the way. Man, I'm getting so burned out from this crap.
On to happier things, though - The weather is gorgeous, with a couple of days this week in the low 70's. I went and finally went frisbee golfing ... "correctly", shall we say, on one of these days, which was an awesome thing to do. A couple video game sessions, and I'm pretty much good to go for the rest of the week. This weekend will be a little bit abnormal, as my folks are coming out to pack up some of my stuff to make the May move a little easier. Between that and the speech I have to give on Monday, it'll be an interesting weekend, but it should be fun, regardless.
Keep checking those POTD's!