Slackin'

I really have got to get myself out of this funk that I'm in. I've started to, which is important, but I'm not there yet. How do I know? Well, I'm currently in the library trying, unsuccessfully as of now, to get to studying for a class that I've put off since the last exam I had in it. So here's the deal that I'm going to attempt to make with myself. I've been averaging 14 hours of work per weekend. Now that I've quit my job I have 14 more hours per weekend in which to work. I figure if I can put at least half of that time, more would be preferable but for now we'll set the bar low, that I had been working into doing schoolwork, I should be able to right the ship fairly quickly. But of course, only time will tell.

I recently found out that my family has a friend that works for the technical sales division at Cat, a place that as of right now I wouldn't mind working. So we'll pursue the channels and see what comes up. I figure that with my time as an intern at Cat, I should at least be able to get an interview, and I've always been fairly good at those, so... we'll see.

I was in the mall the other day because I was looking to buy arrows for archery class, and what do you know the bookstore sucked me in again. This time I came out with The Best American Comics 2006. I'm pumped to read it. I also saw this one volume addition of Bone but decided that I simply couldn't afford to buy it now... especially at the $40 in store price. Well I guess for once I'll have to be patient, however, I'm not so good at that.

Well, time to hit the books...

Currently Reading... G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
Currently Listening to... The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (hooray for leaks, i.e. it's not due out till January 2007!)

Has it really been over a month?

Well, as you can plainly see, yes it has. So we'll do a quick life recap...

School:
School could be going better, or at least the attention that I pay it could. I have pretty much slacked way to much at the beginning of the semester. Not doing all of my homework, skipping classes and all that jazz. Last week it kind of hit me, if I don't start to turn that around I'll be here another semester, and I absolutely cannot afford that. So, last week with its three exams afforded me that opportunity to play the catch up game. I'm still not one-hundred percent caught up but the exams should have helped my cause, (I've gotten two of them back including the one that I thought I did the worst on, which I actually probably did the best on, (47/47). This week's tasks are to do all of the econometrics homework that I haven't done and try to see if I can get my teacher to accept some partial credit on it, turn in a late finance homework set, figure out a paper topic and write an outline for mineral economics, do homework for design and analysis of experiments, start archery, and go to every class I have this week. In other words I'm going to be a little busy this week.

Work:
I put in my two weeks notice. I figured that I wanted to make sure that I actually finished up well in school and I really just wanted to enjoy my last semester up here. I think that my last day was last night, but I'm not entirely sure of that. Either way, because of it my money will be tight and I have to start spending accordingly. I'm extremely happy about this.

Life:
Life's been very good, which is probably part of the reason that school isn't. Although staying way to late every night is starting to get to me, I think that the earliest that I got to be last week was around three or so. Also, I feel as though I'm turning into Jason his last semester up here, in that I do not live at the guy's house any longer, but I spend all of my time there. It's kind of ridiculous. Also I got this spiffy new computer that I am now blogging from. It's MacBook Pro. I know, I've now officially gone to the dark side... and I like it. While it cost a pretty penny I have a feeling that it's one of the better investments that I've made. So far it has already paid dividends in that I've been bringing it to the library and actually been doing homework, (I know, it's crazy). I also hope and think that it will get me to become a little more regular in my updating.

Crusade:
Praise band has been going well this year. Personally, I feel that I'm playing and singing very solidly which is great. Also I think I might have found someone to take over when I'm gone, which is a huge stress off of my back. It seems as though we have a really solid core of freshmen this year as well, which really excites me. So many crusaders have been huge blessings in my life so far this semester and I'd just like to thank some of them, whether they see this or not. Thank you Tim, Kurt, Josh, and Anna; you've made this semester great for me and I cannot thank you enough for all that you have done. All in all I would say that the ministry is going fairly well this year, it's a good thing.

I probably have more to talk about... but we'll do that later.

Currently listening to... Xiu Xiu - The Air Force

Currently reading... G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy