First week of classes finished up on Friday. This is probably going to be a fun semester, but it is also going to be more difficult than the last. It will probably work out though, since I always seem to adjust to whatever the workload happens to be.

I did a few fun things over break in addition to work 40 hours over the three weeks. I got to hang out with a few friends from Knowledge Bowl and another guy I knew from Cross Country/Track, so that was pretty fun. We also had an Alumni Knowledge Bowl meet so those of us who had graduated from high school could get together and have some fun.

I also read through some books. The first was Lord of the Flies. Apparently, it's a staple of many high school reading lists and I figured I should try to correct my 'deficiency.' I wasn't very impressed with it. I guess it could have been a lot worse, but really I don't get why it's so popular. I have no plans on ever rereading it.

The second book was A Wrinkle in Time. I don't know how I ever got the idea to read it, but it was among the books that came in at the library when I got home from school. I guess I must have had some reason at some point, but whatever it was it's now lost to history. It wasn't a bad book, but it was more simplistic than a lot of the other books

of other books I've read lately.

The last was Corelli's Mandolin. It was a good book, but it definitely wasn't a kids book.

I had started on Pride and Prejudice, but I forgot it at my house, so it won't get finished until I can get home again sometime in February.

I also got to see the latest Sherlock Holmes movie, Game of Shadows. I thought it was just as good as the first. I didn't really like the guy that they had playing Moriarty. I can't really seem to find the right word word to describe what bothered me about him.

Anyway, that's probably most of my break. Hopefully I can get some stuff done around here this semester, but if life gets too busy, it obviously takes precedence over anything on the internet.

Also, it seems like I'm no longer getting alerts telling me people have commented on my blog. I'll try to stay on top of that, but if you comment on something and it doesn't get approved within a reasonable amount of time, feel free to let me know.