it's about time

yes, it's about time for a new post. i finally updated the blog links on the left-hand side with a couple new ones and a correction. there's really not much new to say except that i've been pretty busy with projects and the social world of the u of i young group.

school projects: i'm down to about 1.0 projects left. that's right. 1.0. that's about 0.1 of one project (almost done!) and about 0.9 of the other one. i tried to get the first one done and out of the way this weekend, but i'm still having problems figuring it out. it'll come together eventually. the other one has a long way to go yet. it's more like 0.5 left because we already did the design document and presentation so all we have is the demo and final paper. but i'm going to leave it at 1.0 because the design document and presentation don't count much towards the project. i also have three exams left (or maybe two) during finals week.

side projects: burning dvd's for caroline to give her sister for christmas. it's a lot more complicated than i originally thought. so don't ask me to do any of them for you until at least after the new year. other side project: filling my desk with mountain dew cans. i've got eleven so far. (all empty of course) i've got another 48 sitting beside my desk just waiting to be drunk.

just gone by: saturday snowboarding and sunday supper and games at jeanne's. what a great weekend. the "snow" was filled with ice chunks. the only good snow was on the rail and jump run. perfect. i hit the funbox with a backside boardslide and still managed to land it once despite the horrible landing. i also managed to hit a longer rail with a 50-50 going pretty fast and still landed it despite not being able to see exactly how far down the snow was. it started snowing around1:00 so it was a sweet hour of boarding with fresh powder. then i noticed it was coming down a little too much so i figured we'd better leave before we got stuck there. and then i began my five hour drive home! it's worse with the first few snowfalls of the season because everyone forgets how to drive in snow and so they panic and drive really slow. supper and games at jeanne's was great. really good lasagna and fun games including intense dutch blitz with an amazing lack of marrying; travis winning egyptian rat screw and no one else being surprised; and ending with two wild games of spoons! i've never played with rules before and i'll never play without them again.

coming up: christmas shopping and vacations. i've got one christmas this saturday and another on the 24th. i really need to get the first gift soon, but the other one can wait. i'm not too worried about it selling out. i could probably pick it up on the 24th with no problem. vacations include snowboarding in colorado for four wonderful days in a free condo on keystone (though we'll be boarding at copper). i really don't know where any resorts are in colorado. i should probably look that up soon. vacae #2 is sunny and warm phoenix! looking forward to seeing morgan, sam, andy, and natalie again!

well, that's pretty much it and i know this is long, but it's easier to do it this way rather than tons of short posts.