Thanks everyone

Hey eveyone, just wanted to thank you all for your love and support and calling to check in on me. I'm doing well, much better than a few days ago at least. I wish I could have been out at mom's and dad's for dinner tonight to be able to see you all. As I was hometeaching I was able to share some of the thoughts and encouragement you've all given me this week, so not only do I appreciate it, but they appreciated it as well. I'll prolly write again Thursday as usual, so 'till then, keep your stick on the ice.

Dog days of, umm, October

Well, things are going goodly I suppose. The semester is halfway done and I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel. I've had 2 solid good weeks and that's feeling good. It was fall break this week and I was really nervous with all that free time but I think I was able to get a lot of good stuff done. Russell and I made it fishing today as well, didn't catch anything, but it was nice to get into the fresh air for a while. I've been spacing everything this week though. I missed my therapy appointment and was late for my thursday meeting. Don't know what's wrong, maybe just cuz my brain has shut off for the week, or at least I hope so.
Other than that, gosh, I just don't really have much else to say. It's taken me 45 minutes to get this much. But it sounds like everyone is doing well. It feels kinda like a transition time. Octobers are always really odd: I think every girlfriend I've ever broken up with was in October. Weird huh? I don't know what it is about October that makes people not as interesting. Anyways, that's all for today.

Poesía

Hey, just wanted to share the poem that I had to write for my hispanic poetry class since it is my first spanish poem. It was an imitation of another spanish poem and as far as rhyme and meter go, it reflects the other pretty well. Hmm, maybe I'll even put a translation.

Ajedrez En un juego de mente sin nada inteligente absurdos y despacios deslizo de serpiente ambos, los ojos vacios las manos en la frente Minutos van pasando el juez ya suspirando calma como la nieve... el caballo bufando. por miedo, no se mueve mas queda contemplando. Escena aburrida atención ya vencida el juego no inspira sino saca la vida en esto no hay mentira la audiencia, deprimida. Al gran señor, invoques. el juego, ¡no lo toques, que dejes el tablero las reinas y los roques! en juego verdadero es mejor que te enfoques. ¡Oh juego miserable meta inalcanzable! que tortura la mente si hay bueno, que hable pasa tan lentamente... juego insoportable.

Chess In a game of the mind without any intelligence they're absurd and slow like the slither of a snake both with empty eyes and hands on their foreheads The minutes go by the judge gives a sigh still like fresh snow.. the knight's horse huffs out of fear it stays still and sits there, contemplating it's a boring scene it's hard to pay attention this game doesn't inspire but takes the life out of you there's no joke the audience becomes depressed. Pray to the Lord Don't touch that game leave the board the queens and the rooks! In a real game that's where you should be. Oh you miserable game with an unreachable goal! You torture the mind if there is good in it, let me know it goes by so slowly.. it's an unbearable game.

Congratulations! Have a cigar!

You'll all be glad to know I am now the father of a bouncing baby Kia Spectra! Hooray! I realized one day a couple weeks ago that I had just enough saved up to completely pay off my car, and then I realized that I had 1500 bucks worth of checks in my wallet left over from financial aid, and then I realized that I'll get paid 3 times in October and get a profit sharing check in November so NOW would be a great time to pay it off... so I did! :)

These, unfortunately, constitute the majority of my books for this semester. The two on the left on the top row are the ones I use every day. I've read the smaller yellow one on the top row (250 pages) and the multicolored one right below it (170 pages) already. A lot of them are poetry books, of which I usually only read about 20-30 pages a piece (or I'm supposed to anyways). Not shown are at least 2 other books each over 200 pages that I'll need to read by the end of the semester. And the dictionary? Well, about 10 pages into the first book I stopped looking words up, I was at about 20 per page. So now I only look up words that appear over and over and seem to have a big impact on the meaning. Anyways, there's my stories for the day. Oh, and my therapist was much nicer today, for which I'm very grateful.