taking a break

So... I've been taking a break from my homework all weekend with various things. Particularly a carnival, shopping, a party, and my jujitsu notebook, all of which I may comment on here.

The carnival was Andrew's brainstorm. He seems to have a lot of good ones. Andrew, James, Brittany and I went and had a good time... I did anyway, I won't speak for everyone. We did the hangliding ride, which reawakened my desire to go hangliding for real, though I hear its really expensive. Maybe if I win the lottery or something. That'll be hard since I don't buy lottery tickets. We also stood around debating the best deal on tickets, and whether or not there really was a woman with the body of a snake. We did a really spinny ride, and got good and dizzy, and I overall enjoyed myself.

Shopping was relatively non-eventful. We got a couch for the apartment. Just in time, because the housewarming party was that night. Which was also really fun, but towards the end, with the late night... something started playing with my emotions. Perhaps I just started thinking too much... and surprisingly, it was not about the past. The party was actually better than I expected, and easy on me, since I didn't have a huge hand in the planning.

Today I cleaned the apartment, since it was tidy after the party, but not really clean. Then I worked on my jujitsu notebook, because you know, that's infinitely more important than the history of Rennaissance theater. For those of you who don't know, a jujitsu notebook is a notebook where I write every new technique I learn. No one can advance to the next level in jujitsu without a notebook. I've been falling behind in copying my scribbled notes into the computer, so I did that for hours. And now I need a break from that, so I decided to write a blog entry. I may just have to start reading theater history eventually though... I'm running out of things to do.

Cyrus stopped by today. I'm sure he doesn't want me to make a big deal about his leaving, but I will anyway. He mentioned as he was headed out the door that I might not see him again before he leaves. I don't think it really sank in until that moment. I'm sure that moment was worse for other people, not 'cause I don't care about Cyrus, but because there are a lot of other people who know him better than I do. But it still leaves me kind of sad and makes me wish the earth were smaller so places would be closer together. It also makes me think of other people who are now really far away. Oregon, Michigan, Arizona, Texas, South Korea, England, Austria, Canada, Tennessee, Georgia, California, Iraq... Heaven... I kind of wish they were closer to my backyard. But anyway... I guess that's what the internet is for. Well... except Heaven. But what I meant was the internet can bring Taiwan to my bedroom. Or where ever my computer happens to be. At the moment its my bedroom.

Anyway, that's a little bit of my rambling thoughts. The rest I have to keep to myself. Can't tell you all everything in my blog. What would I have to talk about when we're together in person?