It's the first week of class! Everything is going well so far, I've gotten the classes I need for the most part. What's more, the one class I thought was going to be particularly challenging may not be at all. No doubt work will be involved, but with 3 open-book, open-notes, open-partner, take-home midterms and an optional final, I have a feeling I'll probably be okay. I can't believe it's my last quarter. I guess I should stop saying that and just enjoy it, but it really is strange. What's more I feel like everything is coming full circle. If you've read this particular inception of my blog you'll know I worked as an operator. I'm currently doing just that right now. We were short people on the floor, and so here I am taking calls again at the same place I've been for more than 2 years now. I just find it funny that this blog will start and end with me taking calls sitting in the same cubicle as if nothing had happened. Well, maybe not end per se. I still don't know where I'm going in Peace Corps yet. I'm going to kick some ass if I don't hear by next weekend! I suppose it hasn't yet been their maximum allotment of time, so I shouldn't expect anything yet. Although, the anticipation is killing me.

Then 20 days happened. Whew, it's been a while since I've posted. A fair amount has happened, but at the same time not really. Dead-week was mostly the same as usual, finals were the same as usual. I performed adequately well, nothing to write home about but I passed all my classes, so that's sweet. I just got back from Vegas, where I spent the last three days hanging out with my friends, heavy eating and light gambling. Good times indeed. I still haven't heard anything form the Peace Corps... but it should be any day now.

It's Friday before deadweek! 2 more weeks and I'll be in my last quarter at Poly. Scary. Last night was very different than I had expected it might be. I unexpectedly was visited by a couple of old and dear friends from Santa Barbara. The evening wasn't particularly eventful, but the sudden thrust of a a person you haven't seen substantially for 2 or 3 years generally brings back memories that you'd nearly forgotten, or in this case ruminations regarding the effect that person had in the direction your life took.

When I first started seeing her I was in a bad place, but worse yet I didn't realize it at all. Ana and I had just broken up a few months ago, and I thought I was enjoying my new found freedom... in retrospect though I was floundering. After spending such a substantial amount of time with one person only I think I missed out on a lot of personal development. I quite honestly didn't know who I was, but truly thought that I did. With her I quickly discovered what I was capable of, strengths and weaknesses and things I never knew about myself. It was a very influential time in my college career. I think I've expounded in past entries about the weirdness of my 2nd year here at Poly, and how that was when everything really started changing. The winter break was the quite literally the locus of all of that change. What's more, when our brief romantic involvement came to an end there was no grand climactic moment, no huge fight, and no tears. We simply both signed off AIM one day and didn't speak again for a month or more.

Some people affect you slowly, molding your personality over time like a small river eventually creates a canyon. Others change things suddenly and all at once; a great storm of change that ends quickly but whose irrevocable effects are felt all at once but perhaps not understood for some time. Maybe that's a lame way of putting it, maybe it's not. In any case it's personally true. It was good to see you again.

I'm unsatisified with my layout. It's time for a change. I think perhaps I'll devote spring break to a new and exciting look for my blog. Then again I might not... I feel like I should take advantage of my free bandwidth and server ownage... I mean I can really do whatever I want. Yet here it sits, blue and boring. I dunno, we'll see. Today was the day of money though. Both the Peace Corps. and Western Digital sent me money today! Oh, speaking of the Corps. who saw that Mustang Daily is doing a three part series on them? Scanduloso.