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Master of the Universe

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FINALLY FINISHED MY MASTERS DEGREE!!!!!!

Wow.  What a relief.  This feels great!

I’m kind of disapointed though because I thought Sara might plan something to celebrate or something.  When she graduated from grad school I bought a gift and drove to North Carolina.  When she found out she passed her board exam I bought her flowers and a decorated a cake.  When I got home I was all excited and I was telling her about class and how glad I was to be done but she wasn’t paying attention because she was on the Internet and watching T.V.  She didn’t even wait for me to get home to eat dinner.  She just really doesn’t seem to care at all, but to me it seems like a pretty big milestone.  But who knows, Monday night isn’t the best day to celebrate, maybe this weekend we can do something.

I’m just a little conflicted because I’m glad to be done but disapointed that nobody seems to care.

Friday and homework free

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This is kind of strange.  Here I am home early on a Friday, like usual, and I don’t have any homework to do.  It feels weird.  I completed my last assignment EVER on Wed. and now I just have to sit through 1 lecture on Monday and that’s it.  So excited.

I just went and got my licensed renewed.  This has been a productive couple of weeks for me.  Christmas decorations up, Nala to the vet, new breaks on the car, license renewed, found a new car insurance company.  I think all that’s left is Christmas shopping and getting new tires.

Saturday night we’re going over to Anastasia’s to eat and play games.  We’ve talked on the phone a few times and still get along well, so that’s all good.  I think we’re supposed to bring wine for dinner.  Too bad we don’t know anything about wine.  I offered to bring a bottle of tequilla instead. 🙂

We got about 3 inches of snow this morning and as usual Philly had it’s usual reaction of complete panic and no effort at snow removal.  Most people didn’t come to work and most schools were canceled.  By about 10 all of the roads were completely clear.  My commute only took 10 minutes longer than usual.  Pansies.

Go Pack GO

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Last week was the week of hell.

I had to give a presentation in my class on Monday and then I worked all 7 days for a total of 60 hours.  I’ve worked every weekend for the past 6 or 7 weeks.  Plus everybody’s temper is short so I’ve been yelled at a few times lately.  Seems like I can’t do anything right, although I think that’s more that everybody is stressed out.  The deadline was last Friday and I’m still not done with everything.  It has really been brutal.  I could go into more details, but frankly I’m too tired.  Also, Sara’s family is coming for Thanksgiving, which is great, but we have a lot of cleaning to do before then.

And now, the ages old debate, do I stay up late to watch the Packer’s game even though I have to get up early and it might just kill me?

Decisions, decisions.

Baltimore

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So we went to Baltimore on Saturday, and I had a really good time!

First off, our directions from google maps were terrible and we got very lost and also had to pay $4 in extraneous tolls.  Then there was some sort of accident in the tunnel, but they got it cleared out in about 10 minutes so we didn’t have to wait very long.  We got quite the tour of greater Baltimore as we took every possible wrong turn.  Finally, we ate lunch at a great seafood place named Bertha’s and walked around a little bit.  We tried to go to Edgar Allen Poe’s house but it was in like the worst neighborhood possible and we didn’t even want to get out of the car.  Then we went to Poe’s grave which was in a nicer neighborhood and took some pictures.  We wandered around the inner harbor for awhile, but I wasn’t all that impressed with it.  It’s like if you turned the KOP mall inside out.  Everything was chains.  I liked the area we were in first (by Bertha’s) a lot better.  It was much more quaint and unique.  Anyway, we went to the national aquarium which was really cool but maybe not worth the $20 apiece.  There were lots of sharks and this really cool huge tank when you first came in with some sharks and lots of manta rays.  I also liked this tank right at the end with seahorses. 

So finally it came time to go to the Ben Fold’s concert.  It was AWESOME!

Zak and Sara
Smoke
Ascent of Stan
One Angry Dwarf
Annie Waits
Brick
Lullabye
All U Can Eat (solo)
Gracie (solo)
Philosophy –> Sugar Plum Fairy
Fred Jones Pt 2
Evaporated
Army
–> “BSO, way to go”
Boxing
Stephen’s Last Night In Town
Not the Same
Landed
Narcolepsy
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Encore: The Luckiest

So that was pretty much awesome.  Great show.

In other news, I had a big presentation in class tonight, so I’m glad that’s over.  Also, this week is really going to suck because we have a delivery next week.  Also, I don’t think I mentioned it, but the in-laws decided to come down for Thanksgiving.  So lots of big things coming up!

New search engine

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You better aks somebody.

It’s been a long week with no Sara. She’ll be home tomorrow night at like midnight. Seriously, she better not leave me, I’d be a mess. She was only gone for a few days and all I did was sit on the couch with the laptop watching ESPN and eating sour cream and onion chips. Imagine if I’d been depressed!

I’m going to try to waste tomorrow by putting some hours in at work and doing homework. 1 week down, 6 more to go until I’m done with school!

In other news, how awesome is this?