Today we hit up the market and the aquarium. I got some sweet 'bots and other ass. junk. We are going to check out the fireworks over the space needle 4 new years. More later.

Also, Weezer is awesome for travels!

Also, Weezer is awesome for travels!

Just a brief note, about tonight. I went out on the balcony and looked out at the lights of the city below. The rain and fog made everything look unreal and beautiful. It made me feel sn happy just to be alive and seeing it.

Seattle, part 2

There's a lot that's been going on lately, what with Christmas and school being out. I've gotten up to many shenanigans with Jed and Emily and the Fam. I will update all that stuff that I didn't have time to write about (such as the transportation museum and all the Christmas celebrations) at a later date. The reason they will be put off is that I'm in Seattle! It's hard to write about past adventures when you're on a new one.

I miss the bunny and I hate flying on planes (but enjoy it on giant birds). So far in Seattle we've had delicious Chinese buns, had some Vietnamese food, seen the Gas Works park (which is very Steampunk) and also been to the Seattle Art Museum. I was very excited to give Emilly's Dad and Nancy the "What's my line?" game I found for them on ebay. It wasn't much, but I think they knew it was a heartfelt/searched for gift. I got (in addition to a free trip to Seattle and a million meals) a gift certificate to the Sci-fi museum!

I will put up some pictures later. I'm to lazy right now.

Finally

Hello everyone. So I finally finished school. I did okay with one B, one A-, and the rest were A's. Not bad for taking six classes. It was a really hard semester and I'm glad it's over. Next semester I will NOT take 18 credits again. Nope, I'm takin' 19! I'm an idiot. Hopefully though, that will be the final semester.
This week has been pretty chill, just hangin' around the house and "unpacking" (also known as watching movies online while shifting boxes occasionally). Jed and I have been hanging out some and that's really fun. Emily is knitting up a storm in preparation for Christmas.
Here are some photos from my cell phone. The fam and I are too cheap to get a media plan where these photos can be sent to a computer and I finally bought a micro sd card ($2.95 from China!) so I can move mine around. So here are most of them. I kind of filled up the memory on the phone a while ago, so I don't have that many. It sucked because I could only keep the ones that I thought were really important.


This is Emily's new haircut. Cute right?
This is a painting at the Guilford Library gallery that I really liked.
This is a friend from school. I just thought her hair blowing was hilarious for some reason.
A picture I liked (embarrassingly from Panera).
A "special" child and her rabbit. Reminded me of Emily and Cornbread.
Emily being cute.
Ashley looking cool in front of a truck at the flea market.
Adorable Cornbread.
Emily in front of the smart car she wants.
A llama (natural science center trip with Emily, Ryan, and Ashley).
A straw jammed through Ryan's pierced ear. Yuck.
Ashley being a size comparison for Morgan's butt (it's kind of a big deal).
Me in a sombrero. I bought that too.
Jed's burnt up car.
Oh Max, you will be mourned...
Me in a cool helmet (I did not buy this).
E. being cute again.
Emily in her helmet. She normally has to wear this all the time. It's sad, but she falls a lot, and doesn't catch herself with her hands. So the helmet protects her already pretty damaged brain.
A woodburning that I am particularly proud of making that I gave to Jim. Man, I worked FOREVER on this!
The name sez it all. (the "sez" is special for Em's)
Emily being all beautiful with her long hair.
Again.
Chica I worked with for 3 years. It seemed important to keep this, but I'm not sure why. Someday she will marry Jed.
Emily hiding.
Birds nest at United Street. From the first time Jed came over when we were moving in.

Done

I'm done with exams. Thank god. Now just waiting to see if I'll graduate on time...

EXAM!!!

Today I have my Europe in Revolution exam and I turn in my final paper for Africa to 1800. I'm a little nervous about the exam as it makes me feel sort of sleepy looking at my study material. Let's just say that yesterday I had a few naps. Also, the exam study questions are insanely complex, for example:

"From 1848 to 1914, Europe's socialists sought to serve the political and economic interests of Europe's working class. Though socialists generally agreed on the economic and political goals that they hoped to reach for workers, various socialist groups developed different and even competing ideas, plans and programs to reach these goals. In an essay, discuss the factors that united adn divided two important socialist factions: the hard line adherents of Marxist revolutionalry socialism and the adherents of revisionism or reform socialism. What basic economic and political goals did both factions hope to achieve for the working class? How did the revolutionary (Marxist) socialists argue such goals would be realized? What concret plans and policies did they pursue to forward their cuase? (Please point to the revolutionary socialists in at least one nation to illustrate your points.) How did the reform socialists (reformists) argue that the economic and political goals or the working would be realized? What concrete plans and policies did they pursue to forward their cause? (Please point to the reform socialists in at least one nation to illustrate your points.) How would you account for the icy and often hostile relationship between the thinkers and followers of these two socialist movements?"

And that's just one of five diff. essays I could prepare for. Granted, I will only have to answer two, but you got to be ready to answer any of the five.

Sigh. Back to studying!

Finally Friday

This week has been rather hellish, with due dates of papers getting mixed up so that I ended up writing an 8 page, 5 page, and 2 page paper in about an 8 hour period. I only have an Exec. Summ., a presentation, a 4 page paper, a 6 page paper, a Cinema exam, and a History exam left. Thank god! That means of course that I should have a very busy weekend, starting Sat.

So today I totally slacked on the whole getting things done front. I slept late, as in PM late, and then played with the bunny. Much internet playing, some reading, and the watching of Hellboy II filled the day until Emily came home.

Oh yeah, brief aside, Emily got the most amazingly cute haircut.

Anyhoo, back to the boring description of the day I had. Emily and I went to the library to pick up two books I had on hold (meaning of course that I left with like 15) and visited Jed at his office. Then we ate dinner (chinese food) and did laundry. We really like the new apartment, and not having a washer dryer isn't so bad as the Wash Pub is across the street. It's nice to have a beer while washing your underoos.

Climb Upon Thy Faithful Steed

Here are some pics I took ridin' to and from school this morning. It was a great day to be out on your bike. The rest of the day was pretty drudgy school work, but not so bad. Cornbread attacked me when he smelled raisins, and I lost him for 10 minutes when he snuck into the food pantry. Emily hung out with friends and brought me a meatball sub from subway. It was a very nice gesture, but the absolute nastiest thing I've ever eaten. Oh I did eat it.







To do when school is out:
-Visit transportation museum. Ride train. Buy from their gift shop.
-Buy Emi's last gift.
-Get bike tuneup
-Oil change
-Work more
-Glut myself on non school related reading (primarily Verne, Steampunk and graphic novels from the library)
-Finish unpacking moving boxes.
-Sleep forever.
-Teach Cornbread to waltz (will post on youtube)

New Apt.

Here's some photos from the new place. Odessa is the sweet (and blurry) blue bike. I had some sweet photos on here, but they somehow got erased. This is all that's left.






The wind was blowing pretty hard today, which was awesome when it was at my back (going to school), and majorly sucked when I rode straight into it (coming home from school). Plus, ye olde back brakes are not performing so well. At least it's enough to get me to and from school! Emily and I had a huge salad for dinner and then watched a movie. Heroes was on, but we no have TV anymore. Cornbread watched with us, but I think the film was above his head.

From Now Til Then

So my new big blog intro spread is a photo from the old house. It made me kind of sad, but also kind of happy because I'm able to say, "Hey, see this pretty pic.? I lived at this place." There are so many things changing right now (although most of them are sort of cyclical). It seems so nice to be hangin' out with Jed again. Also, I'm riding my bike, cooking stir fry, reading loads more than usual, and for once (and especially surprising considering what time of year it is) I AM NOT FREAKING OUT ABOUT SCHOOL!!! All these things (except the non-freak out on school) is Jeremy circa 2006. I finished an essay tonight (early no less) and now I'm just putting off going to bed. The coffees set up for in the morning, and the clothes are laid out in the office. All I need to do is check my tire pressure tomorrow and I will be on my way.