Ok, last post on the D&D books for a while. Why? Because they are completely out of stock, and at this point are not scheduled to be back in stock and shipped to me until July 3rd. Yup, a month from now. All because I ordered the 3 books in the gift set with the nice slip cover. Had I ordered the books individually without the slip cover I would have had them probably on Monday. At this point though, looking at my calendar, the July 3rd ship date means I'll get the books (theoretically) just as I'm finishing up my summer class. So the timing works out kind of nicely for that. I'm disappointed, but this really gives me the time and incentive to focus on my accounting class.

Speaking of, tonight is the first test for the class. In preparation for that, I took my notes and the book to the library last night for some focused studying. I read the chapters, did some problems, checked the answers, and then reread the sections that I screwed up. And while I was there I also checked the library catalog to see if they had the new D&D books.

They didn't.

What? You thought I wouldn't look!!

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tigergladys pointed something important out to me the other night after reading my post. We already have the paint for the hallway. It's the same paint we've been using for the closets. So, I guess that answers the question of what's next!! :-)

Of course the next question is when that'll happen. Chances are it's going to be the weekend after next when there will be some real time to devote to it. Until then we'll prep the area; get it cleaned out, wash down the walls, and tape it up.

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This weekend is the NADAC agility trial, the one which Tigs is the secretary for. One of the events we are running Lucy in is a weavers course. Now, mind you, Lucy is only so-so with weave poles. Sometimes she gets it perfectly, most of the time she doesn't. But it's also a fairly advanced skill to learn, and we hadn't really been focusing on it. That is until Tigs thought about the fact that we are entered in a weavers course this weekend. Thus began "Weaving Boot Camp" week. Practising 3 or 4 times a day for about 5 minutes each (sometimes longer) is really paying off. We'll see how it goes this weekend.

I'm feeling a whole lot better then I was at the beginning of the week. I still have a little bit of a cough that creeps up on me now and again, but aside from that, I'm good to go!

School - started Advanced Accounting 1, terrible first class, but it can only improve. Oh, and I finished Intermediate 2 and Advanced 2 with A's.

Tomorrow the D&D core books should arrive. I am unreasonably excited about this. I also have a gaming day planned with my cousins in a couple of weeks. We're going to be playing some Lord of the Rings, but we haven't picked the scenarios yet. Need to do that so we can pull together our army lists.

I'm going to be interested in seeing what comes out of the Obama camp now that the primary season is over. Clinton would be a bad choice for the VP slot, but at the same time she needs to be asked. I think she would make a good Secretary of State, but I don't really know what she wants (aside from the presidency, which she isn't going to get).

It looks like summer is going to arrive this weekend. Highs in the 90's, and staying there for the foreseeable future. We get to see how cool the house stays. Even in the 80's the house isn't bad, and the basement is great.

Off to class!

So you know I have a miniature habit. It's a pewter monkey that get's heavier with every new release by every company that looks cool. Every once in a while, when its claws dig in a little deep, I give it a small sacrifice to ease it up a bit. The most recent sacrifice was the new Chaos Codex for Warhammer 40K. Mind you, when I say "new" what I really mean is it came out 8 months ago, and I was both annoyed at the reported changes, and gearing up to buy a house plus taking classes so kinda busy.

I'm still not thrilled with the changes. My very characterful (though often not that successful) army is going to need some tweaking to make playable again. Some of these tweaks will require converting some figures, which is kind of ok, as I wanted to make some changes anyway, and some will just require refiguring how my guys are organized within the army.

Of course this is all rather theoretical, as all of the painting and converting I'm doing right now is on the house. I'm hoping that by the time I finish my summer class (July 10) that all the painting in the house will be done, and that I can do some gaming stuff over the following 7 weeks before I start my fall classes. Is it doable? Maybe. We'll see.

Now I'm off to go take a final.

My plan for tonight was to go to the house to study. There are fewer things to distract me there.

That was the theory anyway.

While I was there I sanded down the plaster I put on the walls, I installed the fence latch, I removed all the hardware from all the doors we've removed, I moved all the doors down to the basement, and I brought in all the boxes I put in the car last night.

Then I did some studying.

Peace, Love, & Hope

After work today I primed the library walls, and taped along the floor so I can move onto the trim next. I still need to pick up the paint for the walls.

We're ready to start painting the dining room walls, and we have the paint for that.

I have put half of the boxes we packed onto our cars to be dropped off tomorrow.I need to remember to pack my intermediate accounting book so I can study tomorrow. The test is on Wednesday.

I've picked up the internal bid form and will be dropping it off tomorrow.

Well, we all survived Pet Expo, but it was a long weekend! And we were only there for 2 of the 3 days. With all the running around, and moving equipment, and then packing equipment, and then unpacking equipment I was so sore yesterday. Tigs and I even swapped Lucy’s classes last night; I took her to rally, and she took Lucy to agility. It was a little rough for both of us, but overall I think it went well. I wanted to do agility, but my legs were too sore.

The coolest thing about the Pet Expo had to be being invited to the judges dinner on Saturday night. Now, sure, I had a final I needed to do by midnight for my econ class… but dinner out with the judges? At a nice restaurant? Did anyone think I would miss that? I will admit I was a little hesitant, and it took Tigs telling me to go (though it didn’t take all that much effort on her part), but I went. And it was fun, and the food was really good too!

Unfortunately the grades for the class haven’t been posted yet. Coming up, I have Intermediate Accounting II and Advanced Accounting II this semester on Wednesday and Thursday nights. It’s going to be a tough semester, and maybe I should have picked a fluff course to go along with the whole home buying process. We’ll see. That is why my minis are staying all packed up. In fact that makes tonight my only real night freedom before I start with this round of classes.

In housing news we’ve decided we’re going to put in an offer for the house, and with the fed rate cut last week, and the fed rate cut predicted for tomorrow, now is such a good time to be getting a loan! Plus with the decline in sales of existing and new homes (reported last week and yesterday respectively) I’m sure that the seller is feeling worried, which to be honest is where I want him. Now the question is can we draw this out so that we sign the paperwork at the end of March, so that we don’t have to make our first loan payment until May.

Do you think it would be unethical to print out a bunch of articles about the housing market, and the economy in general, and leave them in the seller’s mail box?

Oh, and apparently last night was the State of the Union . You know, I watched/listened to ever single one of these from around 1990 on until a couple of years ago. I just can’t stand to listen to him. Next year I’ll listen. Besides, from what I’ve heard, I didn’t miss anything.

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So far tonight, my planed night to relax before everything goes completely nuts:
Laundry
Dishes
General tidying up
Burning hands from the dishes
Fail to locate camera to list minis on e-bay

I'm home with a very annoying beast (and the guinea pig too) while tigergladys helps to unload the equipment truck we packed up last night for Pet Expo. I am trying to study for the economy final test, but I keep being barked at. The barking and whining could go a long way toward explaining why my head hurts. However, I don't think it explaines why I'm feeling slightly dizzy.

*Sigh*

Also it seems the government wants to give us each $600. I'm cool with that. I wish it would show up sooner rather then later. Also, why do they say "$600 per person, $1200 per couple"?? Isn't that kind of a "dua" situation? Now if it was $1250 per couple, or even 1201 per couple, that would make sense. But what do I know...

I feel like I should update. So here goes. I've spent more time on my economics class then I really expected to have to. Not that it's hard; just time consuming, especially with all of the online components. But I'm almost done. At this point there is one test and a power point presentation to do. I'm going to start working on the presentation tonight while Lucy and tigergladys are at Rally. I really hope the test gets posted sooner rather then later, as this weekend is Pet Expo, and I know exactly how much free time I'm going to have (none). Either way it should all be wrapped up by the end of the week. And then next week I start up with my accounting classes.

Saturday Tigs and I again went house hunting. We had picked out 5 houses to look at this time around, but on Friday I drove by all of them. One was located just down the road from where we live now, but was practically right under the beltway, and perched on a busy road across from a gas station. Another one (the biggest of the bunch) was in a neighbourhood that was too run down and unsafe feeling. So even before we looked inside we crossed them off the list. Remember what the top three words in real estate are: Location! Location! Location!

The remaining houses were as follows (as described by Tigs):

• House #1 needed every wire in it replaced, as the electricity has not been updated since it was built in the 50's. (And all the windows, and the whole kitchen, and the furnace, and the basement had a giant crack in it, and it didn't come with a hot water heater...) Every time I walked into a room I thought "Thousands of dollars of repairs in here! Akkkk!"

• House #2 was very clearly used by its former occupants as a base of operations for their Christian-themed cult. (you could tell because of the descriptive murals they had painted all over the walls). It was in AWFUL shape. (I guess the cult didn't end well?) It also had tons of asbestos in the basement. (Where you put the cult members who have invoked your wrath?) And every single room had been converted into a bedroom. Including the kitchen.

• House #3 was GREAT - good shape, all new appliances, nice layout, fenced in yard, great neighborhood, etc etc etc. Want to move into it tomorrow. But of course it's $20K over our budget.


Nice hua? I'd link to it, but I don't want you buying it out from under us! :-P

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I currently have a very tired puppy on my lap. Since she grumbles every time I move I will now share some links.

Star Trek XI teaser trailer. Not bad. Kinda neat to see the construction of the good old 1701

This is a friend of Lucy's doing zoomies in the obedience ring. I can see Lucy doing this...

If your D&D group was a bunch of goblins this is what it would be like. You can start here. The art gets better!

Do you have a whole lot of books you've read, and don't want to keep? I bet someone else wants them! And you'll get new books out of it! Works for CDs & DVDs too.

Ok, sure, it's an online class and all, but why is there a quiz on a SUNDAY?!?!?!

I wanted to relax tonight, not read a couple of chapters before taking a quiz...

**edited to add**
Quiz finished, now it's time for a shower with the puppy.

First post of the New Year! Kind of exciting really, for as I've said before, there's going to be a lot happening. I don't know how it'll impact my level of posting, or even if it will at all. I tend to post 2-3 times a week, and they are rarely posts of particular depth or insight. This may be because I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about things of great depth or insight. I'd work on that, but I think I'm gonna be a bit busy this year. Maybe for '09 that can be my resolution? Either way, we'll see what happens here. I'll do my best to keep you all informed of the major goings on.

I started my econ course Wednesday night. I bought the book, signed up for the web site, and then worked through about 2 hours worth of online tutorials. Not exactly fun. Plus the school library closes at 7:30, so I spent the second hour out in the hall using one of the public computers. Not the most conducive working environment.

When I got home Wednesday night I pulled out a vegetable soup mix that has been in the cabinet for a while. It's mostly beans, but I also tossed in some rice. Truth be told, it's kinda bland, but I can deal, and I made enough that it kept me warm at lunch for the rest of the week. This weekend I'll probably make a chili for next week, something with a little more kick in it. I'll need to pick up some things for it though. Actually I think I'll need to pick up most of the things for it.

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In a shocking turn of events I will be packing away all of my miniatures.

All of them!

And I expect that they will remain packed away until we move. I don't foresee enough time over the next 5 months to spend any of it painting or modeling. I'll keep a case of minis handy in case I can get a game or 3 in with my cousins, but aside from that… I'm taking a break from the hobby until summer. *Deep breath* It's kind of a scary thought actually, especially as I still have tons of thoughts and ideas about things I want to build and a ton of unpainted minis that I want to paint.

In further depressing news, I got a call from corporate HR telling me that my (future) accounting certificate isn't enough to qualify me for a staff accountant position. I know how stupid this all is considering that once I have my CPA no one will really care that much what degree I have. Unfortunately to take the CPA I have to have accounting experience. I may end up looking outside the corporate system I'm in to find a new accounting job. I'd hate to do it, for a number of reasons, but if I need to in order to advance in the direction I'm going, then I wont hesitate.

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I just finished the first online graded quiz. Now only if I knew how to check the grade...

Peace, Love, & Hope!

Just after New Years I will be starting my microeconomics course. Unlike every other course I've ever taken, this one will be entirely online. I hadn't even intended to take an online course, but they cancelled the classroom session a couple of days ago, so I had to go back on campus and sign up. I couldn't do it online. There's a little irony for you.

Work has been busy, especially as I'm taking next week off. I'm trying to get as much done ahead of time as possible so I don't have huge piles to come back to. Also, being the week before Christmas, there is food being brought in almost every single day. Some of it is good, most of it is less then good.

Tonight I did a bit of cleaning, a bit of laundry, a bit of cooking, and a bit of shopping. All in all a productive evening, though I did discover that the Pillsbury sugar cookie dough sheet is crap. I'd have been better off just making them from scratch.

Tonight I finished the final for accounting, officially bringing to a close the fall semester for 2007.  Of course I start up again in about 3 weeks, but I'm going to enjoy the fact that I've finished.  Grades probably wont be out till sometime next week, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep the 4.0 that I've managed so far. 

Tigs and I also finished watching the last disk of season 3 of House.  Good ending there too.  Of course it'll be about 9 months till the next season is out.  Plenty of other stuff to watch though.

The great thing about endings, is that it means there is a new beginning.  Sunrise is in 9 hours and 38 minutes.  Until then I'll enjoy the end.

Snow! Finally some snow! I must admit I was a bit jealous that those north of here had already gotten snow, where as we’ve only seen cold winds, and a tiny bit of ice. Up until yesterday anyway! Now we have about 1.5-2 inches of snow on the ground, which looked peaceful as it was coming down. Of course it’s cold out and so cold in the house too. It was a mere 55 degrees in the living room this morning. Brrrr.

Not that I’m looking for an excuse to turn on the heat. I like my BG&E bills to stay down below $70/month, and while the house is chilly it isn’t cold. I do however need to get another sweater, as Tigs has all but stolen it from me, only to return it long enough that it starts to smell like me before she steals it again. At this point I only have that one sweater and a Naugatuck High School Chamber Singers sweatshirt. Hmm. That means its 12 years old now.

The group project for management class was completed successfully. I’m pretty sure that just about everyone in the class will be getting an A. Unless of course the participation reports that are getting turned in strongly say someone didn’t participate.

Meeting with the mortgage councilor on Tuesday raised more questions then I think it answered, and I’m not really sure I’m comfortable with the answers I did get. That means it’s time for some verification from an independent source!

Accounting class last night was… well it was mostly empty. There are about 25 students total (maybe more), and I think there were only 8 that showed up. That’s rather poor turnout for the last class before the final. The final is going to be a lot of theory, rather then problems, which I must admit I prefer when taking multiple choice tests. He hasn’t graded the extra credit yet, which was actually the thing I was most looking forward to getting back. He did let us out early due to the weather, which was nice.

This weekend I made a stew, using up a lot of left over stuff that we had in the house. Some potatoes, red beans, 2 onions, a bunch of garlic, mushrooms, and some vegetable broth. Final verdict – eh. The textures are good, but the flavor is a little lacking. I may try adding some mustard, which I found works really well for bland chili.

Have you started your holiday shopping yet? I haven’t. Really I haven’t even thought much about it yet. This fall has just zoomed by, mostly due to school, and Lucy’s classes. Not a bad thing mind you, just a thing. Of course I really should get to it...

This past weekend for instance, I spent quite a bit of time reading about accounting issues that have cropped up over the last couple of years, trying to find a good topic for the paper that’s due on Wednesday. I did find one, and have a nice 3 page paper to show for it. I also had to write about the movie Disclosure. I had hoped to watch it online, say from Netflix, but the closest I got was from AOL I think, and they wanted $9.99 for it. No thanks! So I turned to wikipedia and it's lengthy plot outline, and now I have the 3 questions answered. I also watched the PowerPoint presentations and reread the 2 chapters in the accounting book in preparation for the test that’s also on Wednesday.

Late on Sunday I slapped some paint on the rangers of Gondor that I’ve sort of been working on. I say sort of because all the work I’ve done on them has been over the course of number of sittings. I’m actually pleased with how their faces have turned out though. Not bad for troop miniatures.

Looking at the calendar for the next couple of weeks I can see I’m not going to have a whole lot of free time between now and finals. In fact I think Sunday the 2nd is the only free day I’ve got. Tomorrow is the last of Lucy’s agility class until January, which does give me an extra evening to study for the accounting final in 2 weeks. Sometimes I hate being this busy.

It’s Thanksgiving week. Tigs and I only have Thursday off, though I think we’re both hoping to get out early on Friday for good behavior. Despite that, it’s shaping up to be an alright week. The worst part will be tonight. I have class, which is going to suck. We’ve been assigned a team project. We have to watch a movie, and then analyze the management styles it shows. I picked Ocean’s 11, so at least the movie wont suck. After our hour of class, we’ll all gather around the laptop and watch. Maybe we’ll be able to snag a room with a projector and use that instead. Of course, that’s all presuming the person who’s supposed to bring the movie actually does. I feel like I’m in high school again.

Once tonight’s finished it’s smooth sailing for the rest of the week. There is agility class tomorrow night, and just work on Wednesday. The college is closed for the day, so no class that night. Thursday is Thanksgiving, and Friday at work should be really quiet. I’m hoping to spend some of Wednesday doing a bit of studying for my accounting test next Wednesday. This weekend I had hoped to be able to go up to visit Kim and the boys again, but I don’t think that’s going to happen before finals.

Quarter of 3, and I've finished both of my tests. *thumbs up* tigergladys is currently at an informal rally practice with Lucymonster, and I've got the house to myself. I'm going to go fold laundry, and then, maybe, play some Knights of the Old Republic.

Oh the exciting life I lead.

Five on Friday - Lifelines
If you were on a game show and could phone a friend for help, who would your lifelines be for sports, arts & music, literature, history and geography, and science?
Sports: Maybe one of the guys at work?
Art & Music: Tigs
Literature:
History & Geography: Monique
Science: Tigs

When you need someone with muscles to help you with a task, who’s the first one you call?
Me

When you need some creative help with ideas for a project, who’s the first person you call?
Tigs

When you have a moral dilemma and need advice, on whom do you rely most?
Tigs

When you need to know the best way to get somewhere, which of your directionally-gifted friends do you call upon first?
Google Maps

What is...

one place you volunteer (or would like to)? Why?
I do volunteer for the dog club, and I do it to maintain my membership.

one book you'd like to see made into a movie? Why?
Enders Game. They finally have the special effects technology to do it well.

one creature (living, extinct, or mythical) you'd like for a pet? Why?
Dinosaur. One of the small ones. Or a tiny dragon. I think it would be cool. Not very original, but still kinda cool.

one place on Earth you'd like to visit? Why?
I’ve wanted to visit the British Isles . Mostly because I want to go see the castles!

one talent or skill you'd like to develop? Why?
Sculpting, playing piano, painting… The sculpting and painting because I want to do so much more with my minis. And the playing piano, because it’s fun!

1. They say elephants never forget. Would you compare your memory to that of an elephant or gnat?
Sadly I would have to say gnat.

2. What kinds of things do you find it easy to remember?
Generally useless things, like the average number of crew members on a Galaxy class starship (1014) or the level cap of an elf in basic D&D (12).

3. What kinds of things do you find it difficult to remember?
Important things.

4. How does your short-term memory compare to your long-term memory?
Well, I generally find…. What was that again?

5. How do you commit things to memory? Do you use tricks, songs, images, word associations, or other little mnemonics?
I try to use them over and over again.




I have 2 take home tests that I’ve got to do this weekend, one for each of my classes. I’ve already worked on the Management one, but the accounting one? Ug. Not really looking forward to it. I haven’t even cracked the cover of it yet.

We’re taking Lucy to the vets tomorrow morning. Originally this was just to pick up the refills on a couple of her meds, but now with the two swollen ticks we’ve pulled off of her this week, and the red infected looking spots they left behind, we’re gonna have the vet take a look. We’ll also be hitting the comic store, and downtown Frederick , since her vet is up that way. Don’t ask why we picked a vet that’s an hour away from our house. We liked the practice, and the vet, and honestly we’re up in Frederick often enough that it’s not a big deal.

Things I would love to do this weekend, but probably won’t because somewhere along the way I became a responsible adult:
Buy $20-30 worth of plastic sheeting and tubing.
Spend hours measuring, cutting, gluing, and filing the plastic sheeting into the shape of starships.
Spend further hours painting said starships.
Spend ~ $60 on a dremel
Use dremel to cut apart metal chaos terminators.
Use plastic sheeting to bulk up terminators
Reassemble terminators.
Take some more hours to paint terminators.
Spend $3-6 on a sphere, probably wooden, about softball size.
Paint sphere to look like a planet.

Tuesday night was rough. Lucy was very much not in the mood to listen to me, and was very much in the mood to herd me. At home this isn’t such a big deal. Out on a hike, likewise, not a big deal. During agility class, as we are running side by side, and she decides to leap up and grab at my shorts and I’m in significant danger of falling on her or stepping on her, then it becomes a bigger deal. On top of the danger to her, there is also the embarrassment of having your dog not listen to you. At all. In front of the entire class. The worst part of the embarrassment is that I feel like I should know how to correct it, and I don’t. So I get frustrated, and when I get frustrated I also tend to get mad. I don’t like getting that way, because while the emotions are mine, I take it out on Lucy, and on Tigs. I get snippy, and short, and I hate it when I take it out on them.

Aside from that it’s been a decent week. I’ve gotten my grades back on all the assignments and tests for both classes, and so far I’m getting an A in both. I’m not entirely thrilled with the A in accounting though, because it’s a curved A. I’m going to have to work harder between now and the next test (2-3 weeks). I really wish that school ran on 7 week quarters, rather then the 15 week semesters. I felt so much more motivated during the summer sessions to get stuff done because I only had so much time to do it in. With 15 weeks, it feels like forever. That’s plenty of time to get everything done! Until you realize that it’s 3 weeks till the end of the term, and you now have that time to do 12 weeks worth of back homework. Personally I don’t want to spend December freaked out about school. I’d like to be comfortable with my grades and my work by that point.

I started painting up another warlock. I decided on an orange robe, something a little different, and also in the theme of the month. At first I was unsure about the color choice, but I kept at it, and wanted to see if I could make it work. At this point the robe needs maybe one more highlight, just on the very edges, and then on to the his face and hands. I really like the figure too, as there are a lot of neat little details like the frog on his shoulder, and the claw coming out of his backpack. Pictures eventually. I’d say soon, but really I can’t promise that.

( Stolen from silentrequiem )

( Friday Five! )

Damn. I was going to make pumpkin bread tonight, but the pumpkin went bad. *sigh*

You remember that “meet and greet” I went to back on the 3rd? Well, I heard back from them. There was a thin white envelope waiting for me in the mail yesterday. I’m a little disappointed, but really I wasn’t expecting too much to come of it. I hoped, of course, but had no real expectations. Ah well. In about 6 months it’ll be time to actively start looking anyway. That time will fly, especially as we should be winding down our house hunt.

Also yesterday was my first Intermediate Accounting test. I had squeezed in about as much study time as I could, rereading my notes, rereading the book, taking the online quizzes, and redoing some of the homework. 30 multiple choice questions later, I think I did ok. The grades haven’t been posted online yet, so I can’t tell you how I actually did.

Last weekend when we headed up to Frederick it was crazy busy. It was so busy that they had closed off one of the main streets. Unfortunately this was the main street I take to get to the comic store, and as we were cutting it close, time wise, we decided to skip that and just hit our usual downtown stops. We ended up picking up some more hiking socks and I got another warm weather hiking shirt that I wore on Sunday. (And of course we got dog food. And dog treats.)

To say that Lucy was not impressed with the events would be an understatement. It was twilight when we got there, and getting darker by the minute, and we happen to have a dog who’s afraid of the dark. Plus the number of loud drunk people who tried to pet her didn’t help any.

Oh, and a while back I mentioned that my x-box power cord was broken. The new cord arrived in the mail! Free!! Of course I still don't really have any time to play any of my games, but now I can!

Peace, Love & Hope

I’m so glad that the accounting test that was originally scheduled for this week was pushed back to next week. On the other hand if it hadn’t, I probably would have spent more time studying this past weekend. So either way…

After work Wednesday night I went straight to the “meet and greet” up in White Marsh. Overall I think it went really well for what it was. It’s kind of hard to gauge on two 5 minute interviews, but I *think* I may get a call back, even if it’s simply because I’m an internal candidate. I decided to go in my scrubs after tigergladys convinced me that it was a good idea. Her reasoning was that this being a very preliminary interview, the guy coming in directly from work wearing scrubs stands out against the horde of guys wearing dark suits. It made sense to me! Now we’ll see if it pays off.

Thursday after work I headed directly for school, as I still had the make up test to take. It was a bigger hassle getting there, signing in, and waiting for them to take me back to take the test then it was to actually take the test. I’m pretty sure I only got one question wrong, and that’s because I couldn’t remember a vocab word. It was a fill in the blank question! Once the test was over I went and joined tigergladys at the dog club to help pack for the event this weekend. After that we went home, ordered Chinese, and finished the first disk of season 2 of Bones.

This weekend will be a busy one. There is an agility trial down in Millersville where I’ll be entering the scores for the runs. Then there is the usual First Saturday activities up in Frederick. We wont be getting there as early as we usually do, because of the agility trial, but that’s ok, cause most of the stuff tends to go on in the evening anyway! Plus Brainstorm is open till 7!

Next week’s business management class has been cancelled for unknown reasons. This is fantastic news as I can now use that time to get some serious studying done for my accounting test, something I’m not going to get much of this weekend.

You know what I’m going to miss doing this weekend though? Painting. I could probably squeeze a little bit of time in to do that, but that’s time I know I should be studying. The guilt wouldn’t be worth it this weekend. So no painting, and that’s ok.

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1. What is your favorite color? Forest Green
2. What colors do you like to decorate with? Greens and blues
3. Is there a color that you absolutely hate? No. There are some that are completely inappropriate for some things (hunter orange for bedroom walls for example), but none I hate.
4. Which colors look best on you? As rarely as I wear it I like a strong red.
5. Which colors do you wear most often? Light blue scrubs.
6. How long can you hold your breath? About a minute, probably longer if I really needed to.
7. How long do you wait to cut your hair? Cut? I trim it when the ends get bad, but no cutting.
8. How long do you normally wait at the grocery? I usually only wait a minute or two in line.
9. How long can you sing a song without getting the lyrics wrong? It depends on the song!
10. How long is the best relationship you've been in? Well the best would be this one, and it’s been 4 years, 8 months, 12 days.
11. Of the people in your life, who is Most Likely to Succeed? Me! Accounting, here I come!
12. Of the people in your life, who has the Dreamiest Eyes? Tigs
13. Of the people in your life, who is the Cutest Couple? Lucy and Tonks
14. Of the people in your life, who is Most Changed? Eric
15. Of the people in your life, who is the Geekiest? Oh man… the levels of geeky that pervades my friends makes it really hard to quantify.

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And in a total moment of geekery I would so love to do this. Unfortunately that’s the same night as agility class.

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Meant to post this last night....