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I don’t quite know why, but I’ve been a bit of a fangirl lately, thanks to my friend who introduced me to Doctor Who. It’s brought up my old desire to travel to Scotland or Ireland or England or somewhere awesome over there on the British Isles… one day, mark my words, I’ll get there! Anyway, if you haven’t heard of Doctor Who, or have but haven’t watched any episodes, I highly recommend it, especially the seasons with the 10th doctor, David Tennant. What a cute little Scottish bloke… and so, so sad I had to get into the show …

Last Monday wasn’t a good day. Started out with a bad dream, then various annoying things happened all day including not having my iPod charged and forgetting my umbrella, until the day got better in the evening when I finally got to watch my Monday night TV shows, namely Chuck, 24, and Heroes. Today, it’s different. I woke up to go get a cinnamon roll at the cafeteria, and checked my mail to find the coat I’d ordered quite a while ago finally arrived. Despite the fact that I have a quiz today and I had to do errands during …

This weekend I had a simple assignment for my mythology class at the library, basically an intro to the library system so that we know how to use it when we get research papers in future classes. Despite the tediousness of some of the questions (find the call numbers for Greek literature), I have to say I had a lot of fun browsing through old books. It was crazy, the number of old volumes that I could pick up and not know a word of because it was in Greek, or Latin, or French. And all the tattered, faded covers! …

The workload at school is gradually increasing, and it’s about the time I need to stop and convince myself to not worry. I feel guilty procrastinating and then find out later I hadn’t needed to worry about it, since it took so little time. I thought I’d share a few ways I’ve been de-stressing, since everyone has to work on it these days.

As for ways to escape my current reality (aka TV and movies, I haven’t had time for books), I’ve been watching Chuck and Heroes, and my friends are getting me hooked on Dr. Who and 24. I …

It all started with this amazing door-size dragon poster I found at the poster sale here on campus. My friends suggested I buy it, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to, since it was a tad expensive and I had little room on my wall for it. But I decided to buy it anyway, and a friend helped me stick it to my ceiling, above my bed. Now, I wake up to an amazing picture of a burning castle at night, a dragon in the foreground with a moon behind it, and a man with a long overcoat and a …

Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and I’d like to state some resolutions. Perhaps telling people about them will make me stick to them more than I would otherwise. Let me say also that I’m not making up resolutions just to have them; I normally don’t. But who doesn’t view the year’s end (and in this case, the decade’s end) as a fresh start? This time, I’d like to use it as an excuse to change a few things up.

Firstly, I want to blog more often. It’s been a challenge for me to keep a steady flow of blog posts, …

Life has been crazy, and only now do I feel like I have a breather from finals. I have one more week before my next one, so I have time to relax. I was happy to find out my finals were in decending difficulty order: math first, then computer logic, then programming. I was so happy to get the first two over with. I’m pretty sure I passed both of them.

I also get to go home next week! It’s been snowing off and on, but every time it does, it melts away quickly afterward. Last night we got about …

De-stressing seems to be the one thing I’ve been doing the most lately. With all the exams, piles of homework, and things to do, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. One thing that’s helped me is listening to music. When I walk to class, I take my iPod along with me. I find that time the easiest to worry; I’m by myself and have time to think. The music helps me to divert my attention. Another thing that’s helped? Finding out my next exam isn’t until the week after I thought it was. That was a load off my shoulders.

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Today is my first midterm for my Discrete Mathematics class. Sort of like logic for computer scientists. I feel as ready as I’ll ever be, and luckily it’s open note and open book. Although, that probably means if you don’t know the stuff in your notes already, you’re screwed. It’s probably a long exam. It’s the only class I have today, thankfully! I’m getting over a cold, and today I just have a bit of a cough. I’ll have to keep the cough drops going, or I’ll be annoying people during the test. I’ve also been wondering how strict they …

Overall, university life is treating me very well. I’ve never made this many friends in such a short period of time, and I’m thoroughly enjoying hanging out whenever, wherever. Last week and the week before, we watched the Lord of the Rings (extended edition, of course) over a series of evenings. Watching them with people other than my parents was great; we all understand what’s going on, we love the series, so we all laugh and joke about different parts in the movies. I think, if someone listened in on our running commentary, they’d be laughing their pants off. Now, …