Friday

Hmm.. My posts are starting to get further and further apart. I dont think its lack of interest in posting, more of just having more stuff to do now that school is going on. Well, Roger Federer destroyed Andy Roddick and will be facing Rafael Nadal is the Aussie Final. It should be a great match althought it took Nadal 5 long, hard sets and the longest match in Aussie open history to advance. Im hoping his match against Fernando Verdasco wore him out. Got to play Rock Band today with Rob (Sister's bf) which was a lot of fun. He got his Xbox back from being repaired. What else.. about finished with my online class and a new one starts monday. Went out to dinner with a friend tonight.. was good to see her haven't talked to her much lately. Tried to get her to see John Legend with me, which she initially agreed too but then realized she is going to be out of town. Not much going on otherwise, playing tennis tomorrow night after work, which im excited about. Have to finish up some homework that is due wednesday. Super Bowl is on sunday... I hope Arizona wins; Im not a huge Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I have been playing a lot of Halo lately too which has been fun. Hmm... I guess thats about it for now, take care everyone!

Yesterday was one of the greatest sports days to be me!

First, Uconn's Mens basketball team which is ranked #3 in the nation beat #19 Notre Dame at Notre Dame. They won by about ten points and this is huge because Notre Dame had the nation's longest home winning streak at 45 games. It was a great win and since the #1 team lost last week, Uconn should be ranked #2 just behind the hated Duke Blue Devils. Next, Uconn's Womens basketball team which is ranked #1 and has been all year rolled up poor Cincinatti by about 35 points. Things are looking good for Uconn basketball, especially the women who have not lost all year and beat the #2 ranked North Carolina by about 30. The men have only lost once, so things are looking good.

Then, I went and played Tennis with my friend John and FINALLY figured out how to spin the ball in on my serve. Its more a slider spin then the traditional top spin the pros use as there second serve. But, when I got it in John had some trouble returning it, so I played fairly well and Im getting better. I just dont get my backhand right now though, it consistantly floats out of the court. That is easily the worst part of my game right now and I need to figure out how to make it better. Also, I hit some flat serves with more velocity and some pretty good forehands. I even landed a drop shot on him, so things are improving there.

Finally, I get home to Watch Roger Federer (above) play Tomas Berdych in the fourth round of the Aussie Open. They have played 8 times, Roger has only lost once it was the very first time they played at the 2004 olympics. Berdych won the first two sets and Roger managed to come back and win the last 3 sets to win the match. Besides the Wimbledon final last year, it was one of the best matches I have seen. All in all it was a good day. Im just working on some football stuff right now (watching film) and im excited that ill be playing tennis again tonight at 5. See you later

Crazy Week

Lets see.. I played Tennis last Sunday night. I found out on Monday that John Legend is going to be performing in Indio on Valentine's Day. Im so pumped he is one of my favorite singers so I will definately be there. I just need to find someone to go with me haha. School was good this week, had a big presentation on Wednesday that my group nailed. Tuesday night, my uncle and his girlfriend took me out in palm desert and I met Anthony Kim. He is a famous golfer, he bought us shots, i got his autograph, picture with him and I even sang kareoke with him haha. I have never sang Kareoke before that night but I did it 3 times that night and it was fun. He was hella nice and down-to-earth and so were all the people he was with. I talked to his trainer for like 30 minutes and he was cool too. I got him # and gave him a ring last night but I doubt he will call me back. He is hella busy and probably has a million people bothering him. It was a good night though.

I went to Anaheim today and had lunch with Dennis, an old buddy with Winchester. He came to Disneyland with him family for one of his son's birthdays. Its always fun to chat with Dennis, he is funny as hell. Everything is good besides all that too, school is good, and my workout/cardio/nutrition deal for spring break is going well too. Anyways, talk to you soon.

Plans Plans Plans

Lets see: Im going to try like a laundry list type post to see how this goes instead of my traditional blog.

1. Just finished my online hw and reading for my master's classes while I was here at work.
2. I went to My first lakers game last night, a tennis buddy (Omar) brought me on his field trip with his class it was pretty awesome and a good game. Lakers lost (sorry for all you lakers fans)
3. Trying to get my dad to take some time off so I can fly him to Dublin for like 4 days for his 50th birthday. I want to do something big that he will never forget.
4. I have monday off of schools because of Martin Luther King day... Yay!
5. Im playing tennis tonight with my other tennis buddy John at 6pm which will be fun since I haven't played since last Sat. or Sun. I think.

Well that worked pretty good, don't think I will be doing it permanently, but its a nice change up. Oh yeah watched "Memoirs of a Geisha" yesterday-today; LOVE that movie. In other big news.. well I guess that is it for now. Don't know if I mentioned it but getting ready for cancun im working out and doing cardio 3 days a week so 6 days im active and I take sundays off. Im also writing down my workouts and everything I eat in a journal. First week went well so far, after this 9 to go... See you soon.

Thursday..

Thursday is by far the best day of the week.. Why? because I don't have school or work! lol not that my work is very hard. Well the only two big things going on right now are 1. me getting ready for Cancun, and 2. I had my first week of classes. Im doing a cardio/work out/nutrition program for the ten weeks leading up to Cancun. I want to get my chest a little bigger and tone my abs a little bit. As far as school, I think this will be a really easy quarter; my longest paper is going to be 12 pages. Also, there is only a few assignments in each class so it should be good. Two of my professors seems a little boring, so I need to try and stay motivated... Other than that life is good.

Oh yeah! I got my Indian Wells tickets in the mail, so excited for that tournament. My Tuesday night class is out in Palm Desert too so I get to stay at my uncles every week now which will be fun to see him and Jennie. Thats all for now, take care!

BIG TIME!!!

For those of you who do not know what that picture is of, it is where I will be spending my spring break for 5 days and 6 nights, from March 26 (my birthday) to March 31.... CANCUN!!! I am so pumped for this!! It all started with me wanting to do something and go abroad for spring break. I have been checking airfare for a few weeks and trying to decide where I wanted to go. I finally had an idea that it might be fun to go somewhere tropical for spring break since I have never done that; in fact besides going to Maui for a week one summer I haven't been anywhere tropical period. So I called my buddy Matt and after talking about it, planning on a trip to Cabo San Lucas for 6 hours, realizing that wouldn't work, then spending another 6 hours planning a trip to Cancun and finally pulling the trigger on it. This all occurred yesterday too by the way. I am so excited for this trip for a couple of reasons:

1. Gives me motivation to run/lift weights to look good for my birthday and the trip.

2. Gives me something to look forward to after this next quarter of school.

There is so many cool things to do in Cancun.. obviously the nightlife, clubs, bars etc will be awesome. However, there is also snorkel, scuba, atv, horseback riding, beaches(some of the most beautiful white sand beaches and crystal blue water in the world), deep sea fishing, Mayan Ruins, golf, tennis, shopping... and the list goes on and on. My friend Matt doesn't have his passport yet so hes going to get that, which is good because I think everyone should have it. Also his airfare roundtrip out of Sacramento was 430$... pretty cheap and its only going to get more expensive as time goes on. Mine including the hotel booking was like 697$, the flight stand alone was like 320$ so 5 nights at the hotel was only 380$ about 75$ a night which is really cheap for cancun especially on spring break. The brilliant thing too is that we are staying right in the hotel zone which has the best beaches and nightlife.

One last thing about Cancun... our other friend Garrett might come which would be fun and good because the hotel would be cheaper and this is like a once in a lifetime experience.

Hmm, thats my big news for the last 5 days.. My teaching credential class is going and seems pretty good so far; real school starts monday night which will be nice to get back on the grind. Oh, I played tennis tonight and during the day on thursday. I really have improved quite a bit which is nice. My friend I play with is a 4.0 and I actually played a set with him tonight in which I broke him 3 times and held my serve once so I only lost the set 4-6; a big improvement for me! My serves actually are getting better and more consistent as are my groundstrokes.

Well I know this was a long post, but I guess it doesn't matter since no one reads my blog haha. Im just so excited about Cancun. I have a blog I run on my International trips and I might have to bust it out for this trip. Although, this time I don't know if I want some of my older family members reading it haha. Anyways, Im figuring out my workout/training regiment for the next 2.5 months and I AM SO EXCITED FOR CANCUN!!! Talk to you all soon!

$$$

Well I spent a ton of money yesterday and today. Yesterday I bought my tickets for the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament at the end of March. Its right next to my uncle's house in Palm Desert and I bought tickets for 3 days and it cost 140$. I really want to see Roger Federer live though so I don't mind. Today, I bought the rest of my books for school which ran me about 75$ not bad. Thank god for the internet, otherwise school books would be brutal. Then, I bought Rock Band 2 from some guy for 160$ which is about 40$ cheaper than in the stores. THEN, I bought a new phone for a few reasons. First, my contract ran out this month and secondly my old phone was at the point that if I talked on it for more than 20 minutes it would die. Slightly annoying. So I bought a Blackberry Curve which is sick. Ive heard they tend to break but I'll just have to be careful (I bought a holster so it should protect it.

I was wanting to go somewhere this week since its my last week off before school starts, but since I spend so much money I think I will just hang out at home. Im contemplating taking a trip somewhere on my spring break which is the last week of march/first week of april. We will see. I want to travel again. Hm, Europe would be cheapest, well domestic would be then carribbean and central america. I want to go across an ocean though. Oh I played Portal (game on the Orange Box for Xbox) and beat it in like 3 hours. Just a cool puzzle game made by Valve and I started Half-life 2 by the same company. Played Halo for a bit tonight with a buddy, so I haven't even opened up my Rock Band yet haha. Tomorrow though; I'll have to get Shannon and Rob on it so we can play together.

Well thats about it, not sure why im still awake. Just don't feel like sleeping yet. In one of those weird, pondering moods too. Not that its a bad thing, just thinking a lot thats all. :) have a wonderful night.

What a Fiasco

"Fiasco" by Thomas Ricks is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It describes in depth the American operation in Iraq from before the invasion in 2003 to mid-2006. The amount of detail is insane and for someone who embarrassingly didn't know a ton about the war I learned so much. I really want to look more deeply at the war since mid-2006 too that way I really know what has transpired during the length of the conflict.

Work was nice and easy this weekend; just read and watched football. This next week is my last week off before I start back at school so Im trying to decide what Im going to do. I might go down to San Diego for a night or maybe somewhere else. Also, Im going to try to get up to the Bay Area the weekend of January 23-25 since my buddy from Athens is coming to visit.

I have a few more books I want to finish before break: No Country for Old Men and then the rest of my Euripedes (Ancient Greek Playwright) plays. I know I'll finish No Country, not too sure about the plays though. This is kind of off-subject but I have really been giving thought to pursuing my PhD. When I talked to Jason Stowers when I was up north he suggested if I can keep my grades up. I was considering adding a Political Science class because of this (Although I have already completed my Poli Sci requirement for my Masters degree, if I got a doctorate it would have to be in Poli Sci because History PhD's require competency in like 3 or 4 languages). However, I think that since im already taking 3 classes which is 13 quarter units, I'll wait until a later quarter. Thats all for now, hope everyone is well.

Home Again

Well I left Roseville at 1pm yesterday and made it home by 7:30pm. Pretty good time considering a stopped twice and I had to take I-5 straight to I-10 instead of using the 210 as a interchange. This was because the Rose parade and bowl were yesterday and I figured there would be a ton of traffic. Monday I saw Yes man which was pretty funny; actually that was tuesday night. Monday I don't think I did much since I can't remember. Tuesday morning I bought Fiasco, a really good book about the American War in Iraq that I have been meaning to read for about a year. Im halfway through so far and its really powerful. I also got my hair cut and bought new shoes. Oh yeah monday night, I went to the mall with some buddies and I bought a dress shirt.


Then, on wednesday my little sister had her daugher Maidelein and I'm officially an uncle. Its totally crazy, I can't imagine being a parent right now but I'm glad she has my mom and her boy friend out there to support her. Also on Tuesday I met with Jason Stowers for 3 hours and we talked football and school which was nice. I always enjoy spending time with him and I got to play with his 2 beautiful little daughters which was nice as well. Then wednesday night; me, matt, steve, and steve's gf lauren went to downtown Sac for New Years. It was okay nothing too special. It was just a little anti-climatic I guess haha I was expecting more stuff going on. Then, thursday or yesterday for those of you keeping score at home; I met up with my friend Briana who I had not seen in like a year and a half and we got coffee and chatted for like 2 hours. It was really cool, Briana is the only close friend I made at Sierra College, so it was cool to catch up.


Today, I went to work, read, and now Im just at home watching Utah stomp on Alabama. My dad went riding so he is gone for the weekend. Im probably going to play some video games for a little, shower and read later. Thats about it so I will talk to you later.

NorCal

So my friend Caroline couldn't come on the trip because her friends had to work. I left at about 9:20 and got into Vallejo at 3:30. I did the trip in 6 hours and ten minutes which is a new record for me haha. I hung out with my sister and her boyfriend Rob for about 24 hours. We bought Rock Band 2, which is awesome, and played a bunch of other games too. We also watched Pick Of Destiny, which was pretty funny. I came up north about 2:30 on saturday and went over to Steve and Matt's house. Steve, our friend Mike, and I went out and lets just say it was a crazy night. I drank a little too much but it was a really fun time. I got to see a bunch of people that happened to be there which was weird lol. It was fun even though I felt sick until about 1 this afternoon. Tonight Im meeting with some friends for dinner and probably going to try to see a few other people.

Merry Christmas

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with friends and family and that everyone receives and gives everything they want. Happy Holidays to all.

Merry Christmas Eve!

So I saw Seven Pounds last night with my friend Caroline. It was pretty good and really sad, so if you don't like sad movies it might not be for you. It had a pretty confusing plot, we were trying to figure out what was going on throughout the whole movie and didn't really figure it out haha. Anyways it was a good night though and a lot of fun.

I spent yesterday downloading a ton of music; got some new akon and some xmas music that I have been meaning to download. I ran a mile and a half, after running 4 miles two days ago. Its nice to get back into running. I've been doing a little lifting too and its always nice to wake up and have that sore feeling in your chest. I'm suppose to play tennis today at noon with a friend, but it looks like it might rain hmm. It would be nice to play once before I leave for Northern California, but I'm feeling a little lazy too. It feels like this December has gone by too fast and I haven't really been able to enjoy the holiday season as much as I would like. Tomorrow should be a good day though, get to hang out with my dad and stuff. I hope you all have a great holiday.

Uconn basketball and grades

I finally got to watch my beloved Uconn Huskies basketball team play today. Their men's team is ranked #2 in the nation and their women are ranked #1. Since they are from back east, I rarely get to see them unless they are on national tv. Today was such a day when they played the #7 ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs. It was one of the best regular season college basketball games I've seen in a long time. Uconn started off hot and led by 11 early but Gonzaga came back and led by 11 with about 11 minutes left in the game. Uconn fought and crawled back and A.J. Price, their senior guard, hit a huge three with about 8 seconds left to tie the game and force overtime. Uconn pulled away in OT and won the game. It was awesome to watch, and different from many Uconn teams in 2 respects. First, they were excellent from the free throw line, something that traditionally is a bad area of the game for the Huskies. Secondly, they fought back when they were down and pulled out a win against a potential final four team. I think Uconn has a legitimate shot at the Nat'l championship for both Men's and Women's this year; exciting times. They play Buffalo in football for a bowl game coming up too, so Uconn's major sports are doing well.

Grades... My final grade was posted this morning. Proseminar for Poli Sci: A, Central Asian comparative politics: A, Terrorism in Africa: A- = 3.9 GPA. I'm so happy and surprised to do so well in my first quarter of grad school. My first four teaching credential classes have been 3 a-'s and 1 a; so in all my classes so far i have gotten all a's and a-'s. Pretty awesome and I just finished my 5th teaching class and will get either an A or A- in it too. Hopefully I can keep it up. Im really happy. Hope everyone else had such a happy day too, talk to you later.

How Sweet it is

Well I finished my online teaching class today, so I am officially and completely done with school until January 5th, which is when my next online class starts. My next quarter of graduate school starts on January 12, so I have a nice 2-3 week period coming up here. I went for a quick run today only 2.5 miles, I'm slowly getting back into running more now that school is over. I didn't run for like 3 weeks at the end of the quarter and it sucked. Its nice to get back into it for sure.

Oh! a totally cool thing happened. To park at my school is 85$ a quarter, not the end of the year but still a nice chunk of money. Well on Monday I went for a run before my buddy came down and I saw a parking permit on the sidewalk in my neighborhood. Well I picked it up and took a few steps before realizing it might belong to the house in which the side walk was in front of. So I took it and tossed it in their yard next to the truck parked there. Well when I went running today it was still sitting there so I snatched it. First, if it belonged to someone who lived there why would they let it sit outside for almost a week when it has been raining, windy and cold? Second, its worth 85$. So that was a stroke of good luck I guess, I'm definitely happy about it.

My last grade still hasn't been posted yet so I'm waiting on that. I did get a check for 3,000$ in the mail today, too bad its from my loan to pay for my teaching classes haha. Oh well its nice to have anyways in case something crazy happened. I have been talking with my friend Caroline and we finally have hammered out the details for our trip which is awesome. We are going to leave next friday (day after xmas) around 2pm after she gets off work and then we will be coming home probably around midnight or 1am monday night/tues morning. It should be a nice little trip to see a few more people even though I was just up there a month ago. Once again, there is too many people I would like to see and not enough time, but I'll try my best. Anyways hope everyone has a great weekend.

One week to Christmas!

I really just realized today how close to christmas it is. I normally am obsessed with christmas all through December, but I have been so busy that besides decorating the tree I haven't really thought about it too much. Well, I had a great visit with my friend Steve. He got down about 10:00pm on monday night and we talked until about 4:30am. We slept in and headed to San Diego in the late afternoon. We met up with our buddy Mike and went out to dinner down in Pacific Beach (picture above). After we went back to his house and starting to drink a little and play some ping pong, which was fun. Somehow I managed to beat my friend Mike who I am like 0-15 against lifetime haha. I had some really lucky shots. Anyways, we headed over to this Irish pub called the Blarney Stone in Clairmont, which was totally fun because they had some good drink deals and had Rock Band going. It was the best idea, instead of having a live band or music playing you just have Rock Band set up and have people at the bar take turns playing. It was pretty awesome, I played one song on guitar and another on drums so that was fun. Then, we headed down to Pacific Beach and went to the Pacific Beach Bar and Grill after checking out a few other spots. It had started to rain so there wasn't a ton of people out, but PB bar and grill was pretty packed. We hung out until about 1:30am and then headed back to Mike's house and went to bed.

The next morning, we got up around 10:00am and played a little Tiger Woods 09. We just hung out for a few hours trying to decide what we wanted to do. About 4am, it started to absolutely pour rain. I felt like I was back in Northern California, it was raining so hard. It was still raining after we got up, so instead of going to the mall like we were planning, we went to the movies and saw the new James Bond. "Quantom of Solace" was good, I liked it more than Daniel Craig's first Bond movie Casino Royale. After the movie, Steve and I blew out and came back to Moreno Valley. The rain had stopped while we were in the movies, but as soon as we left to drive home it started pouring again so it was a bummer he had to come down to crappy weather. We got home and watched some basketball for a while. Then we went to Bj's for dessert and drinks for a little which was fun. Bj's pizookies are legit for anyone who likes dessert. There is nothing like a huge cookie with vanilla ice cream on it. We came back home, talked with my dad for a bit, and then watched the new Indiana Jones movie since Steve had never seen it. After that we went to bed.

I woke up this morning at about 9:30am and Steve had already left. So we had a fun little jaunt down to San Diego. Two of my three grades for school have already been posted, but I'm going to wait out on posting the grades because I want to wait until I get the third one (There might be a small celebration haha). Today, I just have been hanging out - I watched Prince Caspian (Awesome Movie) and now I'm watching Survivorman, which is about Les Stroud (the guy in the picture above) surviving in different environments. I'm going up north again in about 8 days so I just have work this weekend, then just x-mas and hanging out next week before I leave. Hope everyone is having a great week.

Monday monday

Saturday night was a fun night. My dad and I went to my uncle's x-mas party and it was a blast. They had a keg, like 30-40 people, food, beer pong, and a white elephant. I got a medieval knight's helmet which is pretty sweet. My dad got crown royal glasses and a 60$ bottle of wine. So it was fun especially since I had worked 9 hours that day. Yesterday I worked 6 hours and then i played xbox with two old buddies - Garrett Kern and Randy Avalos. It was a good time. Today, I was going to go riding quads with my dad (we have 2), but it is raining down here so its a no go. My friend Steve is probably leaving right about now to come down, so hopefully the rain will lighten up for his ride. Anyways thats about it for now, Ill blog a little later.

Nice day

Well I have to say it has been nice for the last two days not having to worry about school assignments (besides my credential class). Just been relaxing, ran for the first time in 3 weeks (I almost died because im so out of shape), and played tennis with a buddy last night. I'm at work right now until 4 and I am almost done with this week's assignments for my teaching class. Then next week, I just have to take these 2 tests and do like one assignment; so im pretty much done with this class. The good thing is too I think they give us like 12 days off, the next class starts after x-mas sometime, so i'll have a couple weeks with no school period. I have to go schedule another elective class I keep forgetting to do that. I think i'll do that after I finish blogging here.

I had a nice unexpected call from a certain Jason Stowers today. It was good to talk to him and we spend about 20 minutes on the phone together. When I go up north around x-mas we are going to get together and go over some football stuff, which is something I always enjoy. I had another unexpected call from a certain Laura Inman too, which is always nice and we talked for a bit about John Legend. John Legend is the man people I don't know how many times I need to say it but go check him out. Thats about it for now, my friend Steve will be down monday sometime so i'm looking forward to hanging out with him. Sayonara for now.

DONE!!!

My first quarter of graduate school is officially over. I turned in my group's Africa compilation tonight so I have turned in everything! It feels good to be done, and now its time for the waiting game... What kind of grades will I get? Theres a possibility of getting straight A's but I think I will get either two A's and one B, or one A and two B's. Either way its a good first quarter start. I have one A guarenteed and the other two classes could go either A or B since my grade is based off like 2 assignments in each class. I wrapped and sent off all my x-mas presents so im done with that too, except for finding some thing for my mom. I might just send her a card. Oh! I won 70$ last weekend in a football pool. My dad's work has a football pool each week and I won so that was a nice little boost, helped my get my little sister a gift, and pay my dad the $20 I kept "forgetting" to give him.

In other news, I started reading a fiction book from the Roman times that is good so far; Ill write more on that as I get into it, im only 100 pages in. My friend Steve is coming done in 5 days for 3-4 days. We are going to SD to hang out with our buddy Mike for 2 days and spend the rest here. Sorry if I already wrote about this I didn't look at the blog before I posted. Also, I am going back up north again the weekend after xmas which i have off from work. I plan on leaving friday the 26th, and probably driving home monday the 29th. I have to talk to my friend Caroline, who is going to ride up with me, and see what her schedule looks like.

I think thats about it. One of my professors is having a going away party on friday at the school and then i guess a bunch of students and faculty are going out after. It starts at 4 and I get off at 4 but Ill probably shoot up anyways and just be a little late. Oh yeah, on Saturday night my Uncle is having an xmas party at his house in Palm Desert. Should be fun, with a white elephant and all that jazz. Anyways, thats all for now, Take care.

Why do good days have to have bad turns to them?

So this is about how I felt earlier. The day started off great, was pretty much done with school, getting ready for my interview with National. So I get to National and I find out that I actually can't student teach until I have finished my coursework, which won't be until June. Hmm... I wonder why my advisor would: 1. schedule my classes in a way that I didn't get all of the requisites out of the way first and 2. tell me that after completing my first 3 classes I would be eligible to student teach. So I tried really hard not to get too angry because I still had to do my interview which I did a pretty good job on the lady seemed to like me enough. The next wonderful thing to happen was that I was suppose to submit my group's compilation for my terrorism in africa class. I had finished my portion, incorporated one group member's work, and then I never heard from the other group member. Now im not really mad at him because he is usually nails, but coupled with what had happened earlier I was just like come on you can't do this to me. I never even heard from him either, I hope he is okay, I just called him to check. I talked to the professor too and he said it was cool to turn it in tomorrow. Its not actually due until wednesday really so its not a big deal I just want to get it in and over with.

So, that pretty much sucked. The good news is that I really will be done with school tomorrow. I have one more quiz to take in my comparative politics class, turn in my final paper for that class tomorrow, email my analytical book review and final exam essay for another class, and turn in my Africa compilation. So I will be legitimately done. The silver living too I guess is that I can really load up on classes next quarter and the spring quarter. That way, when I student teach in the fall I will just have to student teach and take my core classes. If I can swing it right, ill be completely done with my electives after the spring quarter. That way I'll only have two courses left to take which are the core ones ill take in the fall and then the winter quarter. That way I can focus on my thesis, student teaching and only one class. So maybe it happened for a reason. It just really pissed me off that my advisor gave me false information. Its been my experience in college that advisors and counselors really just jerk you around and never give you the information you need. Maybe I should be a college counselor or write a book on it, or something haha. Anyways sorry to vent, but I don't get worked up to often and this was just one of those days. I did get 40$ back from selling my books to school, go Coyote bookstore haha. Oh man alright Im gone, hopefully my next post will be a little more pleasant.

The Craziness is coming to an end!

Wow, sorry I haven't written on here in a few days. I have been insanely busy. First, on friday, I edited and finished my 25 page paper for my comparitive politics class. Then, I spent most of the day doing the work for my online teaching class. I had to do discussion board posts, a power point, and create a lesson plan using a program called Inspiration which I had never used before. Then I called and set up my interview for student teaching (you have to interview with the placement coordinator before you can get placed), so that interview is today. Then late friday night I got a email from my comparitive politics professor with the take home final. I thought it was not going to be assigned until tuesday of this week but apparently not. So Saturday I had to answer two essay questions with my answers needing to be between 7-10 pages each. So i finished that on saturday. Then sunday, I edited those, printed them out, and printed out my 25 page paper. Then I spent a good amount of time on my Sudan compilation yesterday. So all I have to do is turn all those papers into class tonight. Then I have to finish doing my sources for my Sudan compilation and then compile my other two group members work into mine and then turn that in tonight too. Its been a crazy week, I have written about 50 pages this week (I wrote 9 in another class on monday); but it feels good to be about done with the quarter. I have to take a small quiz tonight and another tomorrow night but that is nothing.

Anyways, my buddy is coming down in a week for 3 days so that will be fun. We are going to go to San Diego for a night or 2 and then just hang out. I'm also going to go back up to Auburn for a few days at some point over christmas break. Oh yeah I decorated my x-mas tree on saturday night too so im definately in the holiday spirit. Thats all I have for now, hope everyone is doing good.