Congratulations

I just wanted to take a second here to congratulate a couple of friends of mine. First off, Jim Safley. Some of you know him, and those that don't would like him, promise, but the point of this is to congratulate him and Christian on finally getting engaged. They haven't set a date yet, but they have decided to get married, so I just wanted to tell them congratulations and I can't wait to see the wedding...which should be damned interesting.
Secondly, and this one might interest some people, Sarah Davis is getting married too to her long-time boyfriend. I've kinda been waiting for this one, but I got the call earlier this week and the wedding is set for some time next year.
So, congratulations to you guys on getting engaged and I can't wait to get my invites. And I had better get invites.

The Heat Is On

Well, 6 hours after I was supposed to start working, they finally shut the store down. Why? The water heater wasn't doing its job. That's a bit of a problem in a restaurant. Can't wash the dishes and all. Normally I'd be a bit happier about a day off from work, but for one, they waited damn near the entire day to finally say that the store was going to be closed, and secondly, it's the holiday season and I could kinda use the money right now to buy Christmas presents. And to top it all off, we may not even open until Monday. That falls quite nicely into the category marked "Bad." The only upside is that I get to sit at home and watch some football and drink some beer. mmmm.....beer.

Everybody put your pencils down

Well, another semester has come and gone, and I must say, I really do think that this is the best semester that I've had since beginning the whole "college" thing. The reason is quite simple really. I care now. "But didn't you care before?" Of course I did, but I'm older now and have a direction in my life that I didn't have when I was 18 and straight out of high school, so I actually want to do well in my classes and want to get everything over with as quickly as I can so that I can move on to a career that doesn't involve asking how somebody's dinner was.
I am, for those of you that don't know, working on my degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. I plan to be a teacher after I get said degree and do the whole masters thing, but that's requiring me to go back and take a number of classes that I wouldn't have had to take had I stayed with my initial major of psychology. "Why did you change your major when you were about to become a junior?" (I love how I know exactly what everybody will ask) I changed my major because I realized that psychology wasn't something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, but I could see myself teaching, and I always enjoyed the material we studied in high school english, even if my teachers were a bit lacking (I only really liked one of them in 4 years of high school).
But, to get back to the point, the semester is done, and now I have a whole month to work and relax and see my girlfriend and do some writing of my own, which I did a good bit of today, and actually post to here more than once every three weeks, though I don't know that I'll ever post as much as Brad, I just don't have that kind of free time (just kidding). I hope everybody has a good holiday season and for those of you out there that might actually read this and are in the middle of finals yourself...GOOD LUCK!