Today is the last day of class for the semester, luckily I did my presentation and turned in my paper last week so I'm already pretty much done! It was a good class, just a lot of work. I got a lot of great resources out of though, I spent most of the weekend trying to update my WSU site with my class projects (not live yet).
Things are a little better financially, we got some financial aid from UMich yesterday, we're using that to pay my class that I'm behind on. Once I get that paid today I can register for my Winter classes (yippee!) I think next semester should be fun and maybe a little challenging. I'm taking two classes (one more than I usually take). One is Multi-User Computing Environments, I get to learn the joys of Linux and Unix. This actually really does excite me. We have a Linux computer we never use, maybe I can finally put it to use! We're probably going to get a lot of financial aid coming our way actually, I'm thinking about using some of that to buy myself a new laptop. I have a new HP all picked out, I was thinking about turning "The Beast" into another Linux machine...although I have to make sure my new one is up and running before I completely wipe out the old's OS...maybe I'll dual boot it too, who knows. Alex wants a desktop for this but our old desktop is even too slow to run Linux and we can't hook that one up to our internet right now (either wired or wireless).
The second class I'm taking is probably going to be Digital Issues. This is a seminar class, I expect it to be a lot of work. I'm supposed to have a lot more credits done to take this class but the prof said he'd make an exception for me. I love this topic though and I'm completely excited about researching it all semester! We'll see if I change my mind after class starts, but I even have a good idea of what topic I want to research already :) I get really motivated when I can research and discuss topics I'm really interested in.
In other news, our GPS unit broke. We turned it on one day and it just beeps at you with a screen that says "software missing". The message boards say this is an update gone wrong but we didn't do any updates. It's just been sitting in our "geocache bag" since the last time I used it. It's still under warranty so hopefully we can send it in and get it fixed with little problems. We want to get the thing fixed as soon as possible, some days were really cold to go geocaching but this past weekend would've been great to go out. We were also talking about "caching along a route" when we go to Illinois for Christmas...we might not get a chance for this now. We were actually going to use it to get ourselves to a party on Friday, the routing feature on our GPS is awesome...I hate printing maps now.
The library is giving us a million days off of work, other than the fact that half of those days will be spent in Illinois and not at home shut off from the rest of the world (which is what I'd rather be doing), I will probably enjoy what little opportunity I have before I have to start thinking about being responsible again.
