It's been a week or so since my last post... School is continuing to go pretty good. I am keeping up with, or am even ahead of the reading in some of the classes that I am taking. It is pretty cool to be taking a couple of classes that I am actually interested in.

I had my first day of work at my new job yesterday. It looks like it will be pretty cool. I already get along with everyone that works there and it looks as though it will be a pretty chill environment to work in most of the time. It's really easy... so I guess I can't really complain about making crappy wages. But it looks like it will go ok, and it will give me a little bit of income.

I kinda started dating a new girl in my ward about a week ago (let me tell you, it is going to be really funny when the other one finds out about it). But she said last night that she wanted "to slow things down a bit." I don't know exactly what that means... so my thoughts are that I am not going to do anything whatsosever, and if she calls or comes over, I'll be cool with it. Does that seem like a good idea? Changing my role from proactive to reactive? Anyways... I guess it's not really a big deal, 'cause we've only been hanging out for like a week.

I really don't think that there is anything else going on... except for a big tidal wave that killed a bunch of people. Amen...

Well... the new semester has started and everything seems to be turning out alright. We have spent the last couple of days reorganizing our apartment. We rearranged all of the furnature in our living room and I feel that it gives us a more spacial (sp?), open look. I like it. I've hooked up surround sound (i.e. the system thing that Mom and Dad gave me) to our entertainment unit in the back room so now we can play x-box in style (whenever we play it). It is pretty sweet.

However due to the classes that I am taking, I don't know if I will have a lot of time to be doing video games anymore. I'm taking 4 history classes: American History to 1890, American Involvement in Vietnam 1945 - 1975, Middle-Eastern History from ~1890 - Present, and Asian Religion and Thought (focusing on Buddhism). I'm sure that I could get by this semester like I have in previous semesters, soing the absolute minimum required workload, but I am actually interested in a most of the classes that I am taking and I want to learn. Weird huh?

My Vietnam and Buddhism class have 9 books a piece. But I have sat down and started reading some of them and they are actually pretty interesting. I have learned that the Vietnam era was a very messed up one. The way that he works that class is cool, we have one general text book, and then we have, pretty much, 8 contradictory books that we read from different points of view. One is from an officer in the Viet Cong, another is from the Anti-war movement, another from a soldier in Vietnam, etc.

I am recieving training for my new job this next Thursday, and I will begin working this next friday. It will be good to get a little bit of income coming in so that I can maintain my checking account rather than have it slowly trickle and spiral downward.

Bush recently announced that there are now 10,252 casualties in Iraq, an 53% of those have serious injuries that have rendered them unable to return to duty (i.e. missing leg). I have not yet discovered any new thoughts or feelings about the war or anything, but with my new classes, I've learned that the Iraq is going to have democracy whether the people want it or not.

Last year at this time I made some New Years resolutions. I think that i did fairly well in keeping all of them and everything. I thought that I would do a similar thing this year, and likewise write them down here on my precious little blog:

1. I would like to continue my previous years goal of eatting $6 burgers at Carl's Jr. They are very good. I would like to ammend the goal however, by making a majority of those the Guacamole Burger (because ther are good).

2. I am going to work on developing a 2 year plan for my immediate future regarding myself educationally, professionally, and locationally.

3. I am going to develope passion about one are of my life. I am not sure what area that might be, but I think that it would be good for me to find something to be passionate about.

Anyways, those are my new goals for 2005. Hopefully this will be a better year. I am back up at school. I just bought all of my books (~ $300). I am hoping that I will be able to return some of them...