My computer is finally fixed. Yay Uber! Seems Norton was screwing things up.

This week has been less than great. Whee. Halloween party tonight, not sure how that will be. We'll see.

WSRN will start up on Monday. My show will start at 6 pm EST. You should listen.

So it seems that WSRN is still a bit of a mess... So my show will most likely not start on Monday afternoon. Perhaps the next week it will actually happen. We'll see.

The grand room switch took place today between the double and single across the hall from me. Andrew had the double as a single, while a freshman had been put in the single after he requested a room change. However, it was determined that he should have a roommate... So he found one, and then moved into the double today, while Andrew moved into the single. Such fun.

I was somewhat productive today, in that I helped Andrew to move, but that's about all I've done. I'm playing poker at 10, but maybe I'll try to get some reading done before then.

Sort of sick... I felt bad on Thursday night, so I skipped my one class on Friday and slept late instead. My first actual skipped class, and it hardly counts because the prof is so laid-back: I emailed him, explained what was up, told him I'd give him the assignment on Monday. He replied, said that was fine and that extra sleep did indeed sound nice.

So I did nothing productive yesterday, and I've only been up 2 hours today and haven't done much of anything yet. Whee. I do need to do actual work though... I just wish I felt the least bit motivated. Blah.

WSRN is finally going to be starting up on Monday. I have a 2 hour show this time... Monday evenings, from 6 to 8 pm, eastern time. Hopefully the web broadcast will be working. Listen to me try and fill twice as much air time as last year!

That's all for now.

No Death Cab for Cutie and Pretty Girls Make Graves concert for me after all... I can't find anyone to go with me. :( However, there is an Interpol concert in a few weeks, and I'm going to try to go to that one.

Not much else to say... Weather here is crappy, I'm sleepy, nothing exciting going on other than my computer acting up. And that's old news, but still highly frustrating.

My computer is still not being very nice. I ended up having to save my stuff into my user folder on the network and then accessed it on my roomate's computer. I was up far too late, and got far too little sleep. But the paper is done and was turned in, and I made it through today okay.

Yoga was pretty interesting. It woke me up some, but was also relaxing. I think I'll really enjoy this class.

Off to write a short article for the Daily Gazette now.

My computer seems to hate me. It keeps on freezing up every few minutes. Then as soon as I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del once, all is well again. Blah.

I'm back at Swat, things here are fine, I need to finish up some work, and I start yoga tomorrow. Whee.

Now I work. If my computer will allow it, anyway.

Broken glass is actually rather pretty when it catches the right light. Too bad it's so sharp.

An explanation for this observation: It's a bit windy tonight. My family forgot to fold down the patio table umbrella. It caught a nice gust of wind and headed into one of the family room windows. Lots of shattered glass all over the place. Luckily, no one was hurt.

So yes, an interesting occurrence for my last night home during break. I also watched The Professional on TV, which was quite good. Luckily AMC decided to show an older version of Dracula next, instead of something I wanted to watch... Otherwise I might have been in the chair closest to the window. And that, my friends, would have resulted in a rather bloody mess. And for once the blood would be real, not just me expressing my love for British vernacular.

I have a rough rough draft of my theatre paper. Whee. It's actually the right length, which is more than could be said about my religion rough draft. So all I really need to do is put in some quotes from the sources I found, tidy it up a bit, and make it sound nice. Not too much work... But I still don't want to do it.

Tomorrow afternoon: go down to St. Louis, dinner with grandparents, some shopping.

Sunday: fly back to Philly, return to Swat in the afternoon, do some last minute work for Monday.

Monday: back to the usual routine.

Damn, break feels short.

I went to sign up to get an absentee ballot today. Instead, I ended up voting. I was a bit surprised, but I decided to go for it. There was one part I had to leave blank, because it was about whether certain judges should keep their positions -- and I hadn't heard of any of them. So that made me feel like an uniformed citizen. But I did vote for president and senator and such. Woohoo. Now that's all been taken care of, and now I wait to see what happens.

I'm home, I have furry creatures, and life is good. Not much else to say at the moment.

I think I kicked my English paper's butt. Woohoo! Now break has begun in earnest, at least until I get home and decide to work on theatre.

I watched the second debate tonight... The town hall format one in St. Louis. I think Kerry did a really good job, but part of that was due to Bush doing pretty poorly. The main reason Bush didn't do well? He got mad. He interrupted the moderator a few times when he was kind of pissed off, and he just didn't come across well. Yay for Bush digging his own grave!

A bit of paper writing tonight, then sleep, then more writing tomorrow. And then the slackerdom begins for a few days, until I get home and realize that I need to write my theatre paper. Gah.

So the religion midterm did not kill me, nor did I kill it. We called a nice happy truce. In other words, I think I did okay.

I celebrated with a nice nap, and now I will work on my English paper for a bit, get some dinner, watch the presidental debate, and then relax.

Yay for October break!

A poem that I read for English class today that I quite liked:

Well, I Have Lost You

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.
Should I outlive this anguish-- and men do--
I shall have only good to say of you.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Now to study for my dreaded religion midterm.

So I gave blood today. It went better than I expected: the pin-prick to the finger to test my iron levels hurt more than I thought it would, the actual blood donation hurt less. I had to give from my right arm, though -- the veins in my left arm weren't big enough, and the ones in the right were just barely large enough. So now I have a bandage on the inside of my right elbow, the outside of my right elbow, and one on my right middle finger. Geez.

I'm feeling a bit out of it -- it's open to debate if this is from the blood loss or just me being tired as usual.

Speaking of debates: Kerry kicked Bush's butt in the first one, despite all the to-do about the "global test" (which is being taken out of context so badly). I think Edwards did a decent job against Cheney, but I feel that they tied, unfortunately. At least Edwards didn't look evil. Cheney could scare small children and animals, I think.

Time for a nap (a short one, this time!) and then some work.

I really should be prevented from doing 2 things:

1) Accidently inflicting pain upon myself
2) Taking naps unsupervised

So this morning I tripped over this lovely metal thing that prevents cars from driving down the paths of campus. I was wearing flip-flops. The nail of my left big toe is kind of screwed up, and the big toe and the one next to it (pointer toe?) are both kind of swollen and causing pain. Owie.

As for the naps: this afternoon I decided to take a nap. I set my alarm. It went off. I set it for a bit later. It went off. I turned it off entirely. So I ended up with a lovely 3 hour long nap, no work done, and no dinner. I could go to the snack bar to get food, but I am lazy. So I will turn to my fridge instead.

Compiling the Daily Gazette tonight, so that will keep me up a bit. At least I'm well-rested from the nap.

Religion paper: Done
Theatre reading: Very far from done

But I'm happy and wasn't going to get much sleep anyway, so what does it matter? I will forgo my normal weight-lifting in the morning to sit on the exercise bike, pedal away, and read, read, read.

Something that is sort of interesting...

Imood (the thing I use to have that little face and my mood displayed on the side bar) keeps a log of my past moods, known as my "personal mood history."

My most common moods:

Tired: 23 times
Content: 18
Happy: 16
Fine:16
Better: 16
Lazy: 16
Alright: 15

Interesting moods:

Achy: 4 times
Bittersweet: 3
Blah: 4
Bleh: 3
Crestfallen: 1
Discombobulated: 1
Drained: 7
Giddy: 5
Hopeful: 8
Irked: 1
Mixed: 9
Overwhelmed: 7
Overworked: 4
Stressed: 4
Unmotivated: 8
Vulnerable: 1

Okay, time to move my laundry to the dryer. And then I'll work on my religion paper. Really, I will.

Yesterday: Went into Philly. Didn't go to the Something Corporate concert, but did go to the Franklin Institute and into the art museum briefly. Both were fun. Went to some market place to get food, and ended up wtih some excellent lasagna.

Last night: Poker with Uber and company. I lost all $5 I put in, but it was fun. We had a good turn out, and ended up breaking into 2 groups: 1 just Texas Hold 'Em, 1 fun, weird games like Black Maria. We also made and enjoyed daquaris.

Today: So far I have woken up, gotten brunch, and started my laundry. I am currently listening to some grunge and punk music and drinking coffee in attempts to fully wake myself up to write my religion paper. Whee.

Tomorrow: Another spec!

Wednesday: I donate blood for the first time ever. Eep.

I feel like I actually accomplished some stuff today so far... Late last night I actually wrote a decent response paper for religion, this morning I woke up on time, and in gym I've increased the weight for some of my lifts. Also, not only did I manage to stay awake during discussion in religion, but I actively participated. Ooh. And I also reclaimed the missing muffin tin for the breakfast room. Yay!

Philly tomorrow for museum fun and concerty goodness. Also poker tomorrow night, since Uber has been kind enough to grace us with his presence. Then Sunday is paper writing, theatre reading hell day. Woohoo.

Time to nap!