awake and alive

I can’t believe that it has been almost 3 weeks since I last posted.  I also can’t believe that after I get home from NC, I only have 2 weeks left of regular classes.

This semester has been so crazy.  I can’t wait until it is over.   I also hope that the next semester isn’t like this one.  I usually have so much that I’m thinking about and plenty feelings about life and relationships, but work and school have dominated my thoughts since the beginning of the semester.  I don’t really like it at all.

Tomorrow will be the beginning of a great weekend.  I need some good relaxing time.

So, I don’t know if this is normal or not, but there’s been alot of “small” (heck if I know what the numbers mean) earthquakes in California in the last couple of days. There have been 15 so far today (unless I’m reading this thing wrong).

So Saturday night after church I went to Nato’s pad.  We watched “The Office” for a while so I could catch up to the current season.  Before he took me back home he made me a DVD of the rest of season 3.  (Side note: I’ve always known it, but Nato is a great guy.  If you don’t know him well, you should.)  Yesterday I spent several hours watching episode after episode, whilst avoiding doing the homework that was looming over my head (procrastination, I will kill you!)

Also, my wife is smoking hot.  I realize this fact more everyday.  (She is more than just smoking hot, but I don’t have any more time left before class to talk about the rest)

So I got my root canal done today. Doug Hinterman did it for me, and he was fantastic! I barely felt anything, and even though it took a while to do it, it really was not bad at all. He used plenty of anesthesia, so all those myths/movies with screaming patients was not the situation for me.  I’m so glad that it’s over now.

I took a couple of pictures with my camera phone while they were away doing something else…

Here’s the ceiling I stared at for almost 3 hours:

And here’s what I looked like with the tooth isolator thingy on:

And now it’s been like an hour and a half since I got it done, and still feelin pretty good.  I guess it helps that I have some prescription pain medication…   Anyway, I gotta get some schoolwork done now.

Well, my life has been quite busy lately.  I’m sure most everyone knows since I don’t really see anyone anymore.  I guess part of that is my fault since I don’t really hang out after church on Saturday night anymore.  I am just so much more tire lately since my sleep schedule is crazy and I’m waking up early most of the week.

On another note, I get to buy a new furnace for my house.  Not really the way that I was hoping to spend $1,700 of our emergency savings, but I suppose it will add value to our house and maybe save us some money on heating bills.  Then again, it’s not quite as expensive as the $2,000 dental work (aka root canal plus x-rays) that I will begin this Wednesday.  I’m really not looking forward to that pain.  I guess it makes me thankful that we had the emergency savings in the first place.

The good news though is that so far I am doing well in school.  I think that I am still in a really good position to get 4.0 in all of my classes.  I sure wish that I had completed school earlier when I didn’t have so many other responsibilities.

I touched a live squirrel today while on the MSU campus.  It was in front of the engineering building, and one of it’s back legs was hurt so it was just laying on the sidewalk with it’s tail by it’s side.  It was kinda tiny, so it was super cute.

A guy from the MSU landscaping or something came by on a golf cart dealy and boxed him up to take to the small animal clinic.

My life is complete now.

Browsing my feeds I found this nice little quote from Lifehacker:

Cast the vision. Oftentimes people don’t do what we want, because we have not investe the time to paint the vision. In my experience, people want a challenge. They want to do something significant. They are eager to help. But no one has given them a compelling vision of a new reality. If you consider yourself a leader, this is your job.

Good stuff.

…that there is a giant hole in Russia?

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I didn’t leave MSU till 10pm last night, even though I arrived at 12:30. I got here before 10 today. This week is school/homework-tastic.  I’m not complaining; I’m glad that I understand what is going on in my classes and that I’m getting my homework done.