Back in the Swing of Things

School has started again and I'm officially in my 6th year of college. Crazy, I know. My classes very between boringly easy and challenging. None of them are hard per-say, but I'm taking an art class and I'm not the best artist. It's a design basics class and I've drawn a couple things that I really like and I'm actually considering taking the color portion of the class next term, but we'll see.

But the most exciting part of the new school year is college football. It started out a little rough for my Oregon Ducks, but they've pulled things together and I think it's going to be a great season. My Oregon State Beavers are doing pretty good too, as are my Texas Longhorns. This Saturday all three teams will be playing, but next Saturday it'll just be the Longhorns and I can cheer them to victory against the sooners.

Even better is that Jed and the Red Sox are in the post season! They lost last night in a game with two shitty miss calls in the Angels' favor, but I know the Red Sox can come back. If they win tonight and the two games in Boston they won't have to come back to the East coast. My prediction is that it'll be the Red Sox vs the yankees for the ALCS.

I went to the orthodontist yesterday and they only took off a bracket and repositioned it, but it feels like they tightened the wires on my braces 250% on the bottom. I know the pain will go away in a couple days, but it's hard to eat. They also set me up to use rubber bands and I'm supposed to wear them day and night except when I'm eating or brushing my teeth. So there's another new thing to figure out. But I can already see the difference in my teeth and I'm really glad I didn't give up when I first got them on. I'm sort of hoping they'll tell me in 6 months that I'll be getting them off in 6 more months. I would be very happy about that.

My birthday is in 16 days... I'll be 24 years old.... it just doesn't seem possible. Where has the time gone? The kids that were in kindergarten when I was in fifth grade are freshmen in college. Little kids that I babysat are in high school. My baby sister is a sophomore in high school, going to dances, looking for a job, failing permit tests, wanting to go out on dates. It doesn't seem right. I'm excited but not really excited for my birthday.... there are other things I'm excited for this year: the arrival of baby Samuel on the 22nd (please bring him 100% healthy, lord), Thanksgiving with my Aunt Kim from Australia for the first time since I was 5/6(?), the arrival of a yet-to-be-determined baby in April.

I'm going to attempt to update this thing more often, because I suck at it. I've never been that great at keeping a journal/blog thing, which is strange when you think about it because I love to write and, honestly, I love to talk. But there has always been this 'what should I write about' thing that keeps me from doing it. So it's turned out to be more of a ranting place more than anything else. Maybe it's that I want to have transitions between the paragraphs, but most of the time they have nothing to do with each other and seem like random blobs of text.

Now to get some homework done before I take my sister downtown, run to the college to drop off paperwork and pick up my new glasses.

Homework:

CIS195

• read chapters 1 - 3
• do assignment 2

ART115

• read chapters 2 - 3

CIS178I

• read chapters 1 - 2

CIS276A

• email seller if book doesn't show up
• read chapters 1 - 2
• do assignment 1

VC135

• read chapter 6