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Weather check: it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Pretty cold, even those "it’s gonna snow" rumors have already been making headway around the halls at school. With all the rain lately, I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a below-freezing day and some precipitation that we would get a nice healthy layer of snow. Which I wouldn’t mind at all. But it’s not even November yet!?

*YAY* My college application is finally sent away and now the waiting begins. Although I can’t say that the waiting will be as exciting as sending it away, but at least that fraction of a chance at being accepted leaves me "warm fuzzies."

If you heard, among the slew of items found in the snipers’ vehicle was a "Sony laptop." Go figure…

Speaking of Sony, I contacted their tech support today about a problem I’m having with my receiver. Apparently Sony has this "Protector" on their receivers that protects them from distorted or peaking signals so the amps are not wounded in the process of producing sound. I don’t understand this feature exactly because it will still turn on even at extremely low volumes even if the signal is slightly peaked. Oh well, hopefully this will be my last complaint about Sony home theater receivers.

Cavuto’s "Common Sense" spot was incredible today. I suggest you take a few moments of your tedious life to engage in some deep thinking with this.

My sickness still lingers. The rest is minor throat irritation and a bad cough. And not to mention the stress from homework and college application fun.

I’ve decided after much personal deliberation that I was too generous in my final rating of AntiTrust. I now give it (and will not change this rating) a 7.4 out of 10.

Saturday morning was spent at the Bedford Elks Home with First Priority helping put up Christmas decorations and doing some other random things around the area. Then lunch at the Armory. Much fun.

Saturday night: movie. Daniel and I saw The Road to Perdition. Incredible. I enjoyed it much even though I was tired. This movie has a great story line. I would suggest, however, that it is not for everyone; it’s a depressing movie, but thoroughly sophisticated. I loved it. 7.7 out of 10.

This week has been a collaboration of school, work and activities/events/and such that have evaded my free time. I still have college application stuff to do! What’s this world coming to?

I watched AntiTrust tonight on DVD. Again, great movie. Last time I rated it 7.2 but after viewing it with a movie-ready mindset, I’ve decided to extend it’s genius to 7.8 out of 10. I must be in a generous mood or something. Maybe it’s the headache I got about halfway through the movie. What’s the deal with me getting sick at movies recently?

Tomorrow is the "Make A Difference Day" in Bedford, VA. First Priority is taking a group to get some stuff done at an Elks Home (apparently it’s like a fraternity for the elderly). Anyways, I’ll be getting up early for that one as well. But when was the last time I slept in on a Saturday?

Let’s hope this is the end. In America there are such vast and intricate networks of communication that it’s amazing. Through these interlaced arrays, the sniper has been caught (or let’s hope this is the case). Thanks much to all law enforcement in general; although we many times ignore your presence, hit the brakes when we see you on the road, and avoid eye contact at all times, we still appreciate your service to this country.

What’s the deal with me using so many questions tonight? I never use rhetorical questions, so why start now? Why do I continue to question myself when I frankly have nothing left to say?

Sickness update: still sick. Having a hard time laughing because it turns into *very* painful coughing and bolts of agony that travel across my spine. Fun…

School is getting harder. I shouldn’t have been surprised, every one of my teachers had already mentioned how things would pick up this 6-weeks. I find it comical how people in Physics II expect to get good grades by copying work from other people and trying to find corners around problems and such. No kidding…I’m actually starting to understand instantaneous vectors and rotation forces. Maybe college physics won’t be so difficult if I can get some of these skills down now (and not forget them over the summer) and progress the rest of my yet-to-be scientific knowledge. And early decision application due dates are coming fast.

Madrigal.com - website of the moment. Possibly also a nice place to work in the future. Home of some of the finest home audio in the world. They own that well-known audio company called Mark Levinson that makes little supreme audio machines for Lexus (aka Lexi).

I woke up this morning with an incredibly high fever. Don’t even ask what possessed me to do an update tonight. Maybe it’s extreme boredom or this bad feeling I get when I don’t update in four days.

Saturday was work. Went over to Journey’s at the mall and found some nice Pumas. Not sure about the color combination though (black, blue, and white). Oh well, maybe they’ll get some white on black ones in soon.

I saw Lilo and Stitch with some THP-ers last night. Although about that time I began to get sick, I still semi-enoyed the show. I’m not sure I have mentioned this before, but I am not an animated movie lover with the exceptions of Monsters Inc., The Emporer’s New Groove, and Shrek. Yet being as unbiased as I could be, I’ll give it a 5.6 out of 10. It had a over-used plot and just enough humor to keep me from falling into a feverish sleep.

Tomorrow will include no school due to conferencing. I will be diving into even more homework including my AP Gov. speech.

I find that the more I actually try to enjoy and make use of AOL the more it fails me and upsets me. I recently downloaded AOL 8.0 which AOL offered to all of its current customers in advance of the public disc copy. Well, they have some connection errors still prevalent within them because every night around 9PM I get kicked off. It’s so regular I literally can (and will) set my watch to it. I will most definitely be reloading 8.0 from disc after it is released; this problem is hopefully going to be avoidable.

It’s been one month so far without Jeremiah in town. Things are very different. It’s not an exuberant feeling having your best friend finally get lucky and get out of town; yet at the same time, it’s pretty cool seeing him in the Apple Switcher commercials. So maybe it’s a win, win situation Either way, Jeremiah, you’re missed back here in tha Burg.

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This week at school has been "spirit week." It’s basically a chance to show "school spirit" even though only like 5% of the students actually do something. But anyways, it’s been crazy fun. Today was crazy day actually. Lots of gorilla suits…surprisingly enough. One Al Qaeda member, one lunaTic, and everything else imaginable.