Yay! It’s finally break winter break! The solstice is a week away. Shannon will be here in a few days! I’ll get home made carmels and fudge in a week! I have a few dozen new ideas and projects to tackle! I might be doing research at the U! I’m stress free and happy for the first time in a long time. 4 months to be precise! My (geeky) goal is to build at least 4 robots this break! And to eat WAY too much fudge.

(I actually went through the papers on my desk last night and found that most of them were notes on various ideas and inventions. After catorgizing them I found that I had 19 since January and most of them months later still seem like good ideas. After reading half of Make 08 today I have atleast 5 more to work on, plus a number of projects I didn’t come up with but want to try anyways. Not enough time….)

Outside: raining, 200 yards visibility, low 40s, almost night time
Inside: all lights on, Jimi Hendrix/Tom Petty/Bob Dylan playing, plants need watering
Me: studying for thermodynamics, hoping friends aren’t caught in the snow, smells like oranges

Yay! School is almost over and I think I’m going to do ok! I have to do very well on my finals, but I think I’ll get a B average. Not too bad. Two more lab writeups, a final Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and then I’m free! Like anyone else cares, but hey, this is my site. If you didn’t care you wouldn’t be reading this. :-p

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I can’t beleieve that the semester is nearly over! It’s cliche to say life goes faster every year but it really does. This semester has been the hardest and fastest one I’ve ever been in. So much so I feel that I’m barely keeping my head above water (except in fluids, where I don’t even know what direction up is). I’m doing better overall then I have before but the stress isn’t good I’m certain. And to think that tommorow at 1pm I get to register for classes for Next semester and do it all over again! At least come May my GPA will be repaired, mostly. It’ll be better though: I’ll have two hard classes and two easy, and only one lab. Instead of four hard classes with four labs. And that lab will be a lot easier as it won’t have any writeups with it. Just machining metal. Oh well, my biggest concern is what will I do once the semester is over? It’s kept me so busy I won’t know what to do. Sadly this isn’t a joke.