I just came to the startling revelation that I will have HOMEWORK this semester.

HOMEWORK! Gah. A second semester senior with regularly assigned homework. Damn Econ requirement.

All right then. Moving on....

Happy New Year and all that. 2005, exciting huh?

Winter Break has been nice, but I can't help be somewhat disappointed since in the back of my mind, I know I could have been in Europe right now with Leo and Lauren. Looking at my bank account though, I know its probably best that I stayed. Then there was the trip to Hawaii I could have gone on....but that too was killed by my finances. So, no big winter break trip...

Unless the BUSSA trip to Yosemite pans out next weekend...and....well...I did go to San Diego.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH. San Diego! It still hurts! Fuck all-thing-Texas.

First Cal is politicked out of the Rose Bowl, and then we loose in the Holiday Bowl. Couldn't have been a worse way to end the season, short of the departure of Jeff Tedford to Stanfurd (thank Oski he's staying for five years!). My heart was broken and my spirit was shattered until USC managed to avenge our loss and the Pac-10's reputation by humiliating Oklahoma. I never though I'd derive pleasure from a USC victory. Go fig.

San Diego, before the game at least, was lots of fun. I had a pleasant couple of days with my family, and a really fun night in the Gas Lamp with Erik, Leslie, Lauren, Lauren's Dan, Kat, and BJ. As for the rest of break, Christmas was nice (and relatively drama free!), New Years was lots of fun, and I've had plenty of quality time with my friends from high school.

But that's all over now. Everyone's gone back to school. Today, was quite possibly the saddest day of the year, the day the Christmas decorations come down.

So now I'm staring at a week ahead filled with way too much free time. It's not that I don't have anything to do....there's still that Univ. of Washington grad school application, updating the MVPA web page and my guidemv page, and planning Pinkertin's big start-of-the-semester bash. But I'm so damn lazy. I'm going to have to force myself to get active, or else I'll be looking back at a week filled with empty days, wondering where the time went.

This has become a very whiney post. I apologize, and I'll shut up.