What a great second half to the summer!

Well, the two pictures above are the beach in Barcelona and Picasso's Guernica in Madrid. Just a small example of the amazingness that is Spain. I'm not going to write about my trip, I did that on my travel blog, which you can read at http://worldswerver.livejournal.com.

Read a few good books since I last posted: Freakonomics and I hope they serve beer in hell. Freakonomics is about the economics of everyday life and situations. Really interesting, I highly recommend it. The latter is probably the funniest thing I have ever read and is about the exploits with women and drinking that a former Duke law student has gone through. Very offensive to women and digusting, but unbelievably funny. Kinda stalled on Milton about 45 pages in, somewhat difficult reading, but I will get into it.

I had my first class on Thursday night, Im excited to get back into school I think. It will be nice just to have some interaction. I also start work next weekend which will be good as well. I have also bought a reverse blade sword like Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin so Im really excited for that to get here.

Overall, life is pretty good. Im definitely missing the traveling and the new friends I made already; but such is life. Oh yeah, I spent 2 days in auburn and saw the Killers live. They put on an awesome show, and got to hang with some friends. Hope everyone is well.

Its been a great month!

So, I just got back 2 nights ago from my fortnight on the big island of Hawaii. I put up a few pictures I thought really highlighted the trip. The first picture is the view from my friend's house that he is building. He is at about 1,200 feet of elevation and I worked construction there for him for 10 days while I was there. The second photo is Hapuna Beach, which is constantly ranked in the top 10 in the entire world. This was about 40 minutes north of where they live. The third picture is me on Hapuna Beach. The fourth and fifth pictures were from about 100 feet away of the lava that is going into the ocean. This was on the southwest part of the island and was absolutely stunning to see. All in all, the trip was amazing. I got spoiled rotten with my own condo, not having to buy food or drink, getting to snorkel and do other amazing activities. The Morrisons were the perfect host and they even paid me for my time. I hope I can repay them for their hospitality someday. The money I made will pretty much pay for me entire trip to spain, which is wonderful.

Not much besides that. Yesterday, my first day home, I went to Magic Mountain with my buddy Mike. He had never been and I hadn't in 3 years. It was perfect, we zipped through every ride in about 2 hours until the last one which was about a 1.5 hour wait. It was worth it though, we were able to blaze through the park and it was a lot of fun. Then, we went and saw inglorious basterds, which was a true Quentin Tarantino masterpiece at its finest. I highly recommend it, especially if you hate the Nazis and Hitler, than I REALLY recommend it.

I haven't worked on my thesis at all, Im hoping to organize it a bit before I leave for Spain. I bought my books today for the quarter, I only needed four and got them all for a little under 100 dollars. Still waiting on Professor Toruno to email me the reading list for my independent study, I sure hope he hasn't forgotten. I also had a really good phone call from my boss today and touched base. He is looking forward to me coming back to work so its nice they are still missing me. Another good thing is that I haven't run or played tennis in 17 days or so, and I won't for at least another 17 so I am hoping that a month will be enough time to completely heal my left knee.

Well, I am probably going to take the train back to USC on saturday again and stay with the Ragusano brothers for 2 nights before I leave. Then, im gone for 2 weeks in Spain and 3 days in Auburn. Its going to be really hectic. I booked my train from Madrid to Barcelona today and about half my hostels. Im staying close to the nightlife in some "fun/party" hostels. It should be a really good time and I should meet a lot of people hopefully. I haven't talked to Irene (my friend in Spain), I need to write her and see if we are going to be able to meet up.

Started reading Milton's Paradise Lost, really good so far. The flow is very different and the content is heavily biblical but I am enjoying it so far. I think I will leave you with that, I have some more to say; but this is long enough ha. Good night!