The Night I Almost Landed on First Base

And so it begins, again. The school semester is in full, unadulterated swing. Beginning Monday (although more likely Tuesday), I'll be altering my daily schedule to include four daily hours of school-related work. Right now I'm generally able to spread my workload out over the course of a couple days, but beginning next week, I'll be lucky if I find time to eat a decent meal come the afternoon hours. For example...

On any given day I'll have to:

• read a fairly large portion of a novel for my Modern Fiction class.
• download, read, comment on, and ready my opinion over a short story from my peers in my Fiction Workshop class
• work on my portion of the project from my Software Development class
• coding, testing, and debugging of a daily Java class for my compiler class

In short, EEEEK! It'll be a hellish rest-of-the-semester.

But I do have some things to look forward to. Time for a hit list!

• I've been on a roll with concerts this year: Silversun Pickups, Counting Crows, and next up: Third Eye Blind. So far, these are among some of my favorite bands, and I can not wait for September 29th to see 3EB in concert. The best part? It's at BGSU, which should make the entire experience insanely comfortable.

• Not only is September 29th the 3EB concert, it's also the kickoff to my week and a half vacation from Meijer. In short, that Saturday will be huge for me, and I can't wait to enjoy some much-needed time off work. I posted earlier that I was considering returning to the mountains this fall, but I've decided to spend my vacation a bit closer to home, obviously... which leads me to...

• I was considering, pondering, and eventually talking about an idea that Korinne sparked at me. She mentioned the idea of having a Wii party - getting people together to play Wii one night. I took it one step farther, and have decided to explore the possibility of hosting something along the lines of "MiniBash." The time frame for this? Over my vacation of course, which coincides nicely with my birthday. October 6th, anyone?

And with that, I'm going to spend the remainder of my wonderful Saturday off work doing... what else? Homework.

Figures. Out.