Another Update

I've been reading like a mad man lately. And I'm not talking reading for school, though I do have some of that, I'm talking pleasure reading. I finished a new book by Chip Kidd that Sarah got me in like two days. That was a damn good book. Interestingly, Kidd designed the cover of Love in the Time of Cholera. Just a little trivia. Then I read some Bukowski. Man that guy loves the sex. Now in honor of Hunter Thompson I am on to Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Sure, I could read something more appropriate in honor of him, but this is good enough. I watched Fear and Loathing like twice in the past week if that helps.

Kelsey, Grace, and Max went to see Modest Mouse in Iowa City last week. I was supposed to go but I gave up my ticket to Grace because she is more hardcore than I am. They picked up some fun stuff there that you can't get in grinnell. So we used that this weekend to excess. Messed up the room while Nick was gone, ate all of his food too. He wasn't happy about that. He deserved it though. Bastard.

I guess I find out about this research thing soon. Before I go home for Spring break, maybe? Not sure. If I do get that, it looks like I will spend a week with Sarah and her family on the Oregon coast, a week at home, and maybe the other week with my east coast grinnell friends? This girl has been trying to get together an east coast tour including Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Boston, but I'm not sure if that will. Also talks of a DMB concert have been going around.

Update

Ok, I suppose I should update now. I just really have not felt like doing it lately. Oh well.

Let's see what has happened so far in the semester? Things are going well. I love my courses. I think I'm doing well in them. I am kickin the shit out of computer science. It feels so good to be able to take a course in something you're truly interested in. On a related note, I'm probably going to do research at Grinnell this summer with a CS prof. It kind of sucks because if I get to go home at all it will be for like a week. But it's something that I would be very stupid to pass up. I get paid a decent amount of money, get some experience, and four credits. I get like three weeks during the summer that I think I can use whenever I want. I'll at least use one to go see Sarah in Walla Walla, maybe more, we'll see what happens. So, that's exciting.

I'm taking drumset lessons now. The teacher is great. Really knows what he's talking about. So I get to use the practice room basically whenever I want. It's a good way to relieve stress. What else? I'm working an ok amount. About 6 hours a week. Not too bad. I hear Cake is going to play here. That'll be sweet. It looks like I'll just be coming home for spring break. I wanted to do an alt break but my parents say I need to come home for something or other. Tonight Sarah and I are celebrating valentines day. She's cooking me chinese food. Sweet. I'm going to try to bake brownies.

So we had the first nationally televised div. 3 basketball game like last week. That was big news. We lost by a point. I think we suck this year. We're not a big sporting school. We just read and smoke. That's all we're good at. If those were sports we'd kick ass every year. I went to a talk on gay marriage given by a prof and an alum with the ACLU yesterday. That was cool. Well, I really doubt that's all I've done. But I can't remember anything now.