LET’S DO THE TIME WARP!

Actually, let’s not even though we did. ‘We’ referring to everyone at my university since it’s been an odd, odd semester; the likes of which I hope no one has to see again! My faculty was on strike, my administration took the hard line for a while, and finally we had classes this past week. Of course, being out of school for almost 3 whole weeks means that the teeny bit of learning we did way back in early September is long gone and we all sorta feel like we are starting from scratch. The weather here also alternates between late summer and late fall and that isn’t helping matters any.

Am I back? Holy crap I hope so. I get teased by some friends a lot for my online habits and so I was cutting back (practically not online at all outside of school requirements) when these people were around (frequently) and that was just not working for me. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t working too well for those of you that visit this site every day either! Writing is a very necessary cathartic exercise for me and I’ve been so busy I haven’t even been keeping my usual written journal as well. I hate letting that slide. When I revisit them years later there are these huge gaps that just frustrate me. ANYWAY.

This is our long Thanksgiving weekend and even though our newly revised school schedule blows goats they still can’t take away statutory holidays! The fact that I have exams up until December 21st still annoys the heck outta me but at least I have next Monday off and this whole weekend to try and get back on top of things. With the vast majority of the dorms emptying out as people run home for turkey day this will give me perfect peace and quiet so I can focus… or just sing at the top of my lungs and no one can complain! Profs are alternately dumping as much as they can on us as fast as they can to try and get them and us caught up OR they aren’t doing much of anything at all since next week was supposed to be our study break and they realize that those students that made plans to be away are not cancelling expensive plane tickets/family plans so they are just doing nonsense stuff and will kill us with work the week after. It’s a weird mix. Also, so far almost half of my exams have now been switched to take-home papers which I think I appreciate. I’m still likely going to stay in res and get them done here but at least I have the option to maybe go home on the evening of the 20th instead of the 21st. It all depends on whether there’s a blizzard or not ;)

In other news the Final Fantasy IV DS remake is still fun and funny. Haven’t had a chance to play anything else lately but I hope to return to Beautiful Katamari and the last few achievements in Lego Indy this weekend! I’m back online with real internet and Xbox Live so feel free to drop me a message if you see me playing and say hi :)