Home, home again

Yes, I'm home again, all safe and sound!

I'm sitting right now in my Dad's office, filling in for the receptionist and answering the phone. The tough thing about this is that people hear me--a guy--answering the phone, assume I'm my dear ol' dad, and launch straight into their shpiels. Oh well.

Other than that--I'm good, I'm home, grades are in and I keep my scholarships! Praise God. The birds certainly sing here at home much more. I thought at first that mom was playing a nature CD. I'm happy to be back with the kitties and dogs too. So much love coming out of those little chunks of fuzz! I got a lot of feedback about my book from an editor who read the manuscript so I'll be shlocking that up for the go as soon as my computer gets here.

Packing up this year was more or less painless. Less so were the good-byes...I was aching to get out of there and be done with school but at the same time, I felt like I was leaving during the best part of the movie with regards to my friends. I don't like good-byes, especially not long ones--give me good but short ones. Next year will be a very different one in many, many ways, and then I'll be the one doing the leaving. If only this country weren't so wretchedly large.

Well, I'll sing the praises of IM and Gmail, but it's not the same. I miss you.

wooooo

Yeah, my finals were all overconfident and stuff after this semester, and they were all like "You don't know this stuuuuffff" And I was all like "Oh yeah I dooooo" and then I kicked them all over and had my way with them. BOOM.

oh yeah, and what's better than a glass of fresh OJ, am I right?

So, whassupwhitchooooo?

Whassupwitme?

Well, I'll start with my weekend, which was excellent. uhm. Okay, my train of thought derailed for a minute...sorry. Well, I did a lot of hanging out with my goodest friends. I can't express how much I missed that for most of the semester. I feel like...yeah, I feel good about it. Leaving this year is gonna be really hard; both with with people graduating and just putting geographical space between myself and friends that I know I'll see come fall...it's hard. So, on Saturday we had a huge party thing at Darryl's house, with fire and food, and about two or three dozen people, and ultimate frisbee, and...stuff. I enjoyed it. I think the highlight of my night was the canoe ride we went on after dinner...it was peaceful out there.

I picked up the newest Redwall book at the bookstore on Sunday, for something new to read on the flight home (that's on Sunday)...I think in general, Jaques is running out of ideas and getting rather formulaic, but I still enjoy his writing immensely. I also had a look at Wild at Heart, which I'm going to pick up once I get home. Things I think I ought to learn in there...Leastwise it looks like it. Something that weighs in my heart is treating the women in my life the way they deserve.

So anyway...Finals started off Monday with two of my toughest classes--Heat Transfer and Mechanics of Materials--right in the morning, with Engineering Project Management in between. EPM's a good class but in terms of difficulty level it's sort of a joke. In actuality, none of those exams wound up being hugely difficult, and I pulled off a 95% on M&M, giving me a solid B in that class, which is so sweet. Praise God, yo. Seriously. I think I get to keep my scholarships now.

So tomorrow I have two finals, stats and Mech & Kin, which I don't forsee horrible issues with, and a final paper for Organizational Culture, which I'm working on today. Packing out of here is gonna be terrible, though. Ugh. And Even though I don't fly out until Sunday, there will be girls moving into our dorm on Saturday night, which in my opinion is messed up...hah. My dorm!

I figured out what's gonna happen this summer...besides not getting a job...and it's this:
http://worldji.com/courses.asp?course_id=1

aw

http://www.boltcity.com/copper_026_signals.htm

hehe...