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right now it’s 2am, and i’m in the tresidder lair for the first time. why? the story: for weeks, now, no–months, even–i’ve known that i had a 10 page paper due tomorrow [today], june 5th. and yet, miraculously, i avoided even thinking about it until roughly 6 hours ago. at that point, i thought long and hard about which topic i might want to do, and then decided to play return to castle wolfenstein, a new, wonderful, computer game where you run around and shoot nazis, cyborg monsters, and even the undead. fun, strategy, and carnage, for a few hours. eventually i picked the topic with the least number of letters in the prompt, and started working. pretty soon i had my introductory paragraph, so i played some more computer games. i realized immediately, that at that rate, there were not enough hours left in which to finish the paper before it was due. ah well–i keep wanting adventure, and now i’ve got it. so here i am–pulling my first (second? third?) all-nighter of the quarter. ...

my earlier thoughts notwithstanding, today was a beautiful day. you might recall earlier that my draw group got a 1320 for next year’s housing draw. well, miraculously, we got into our first choice–suites. and the miracles don’t stop there–at in-house draw tonight we pulled Griffin 302–a sweet corner room overlooking the golf course, the volleyball courts, and lake lag. we checked out the room after the draw and talked to the guys who are living there this year. they were quite friendly, as well as quite high, but we got out of them that their draw number last year was around 400. and we snagged their room at almost 1000 higher. ...

i’ve been thinking recently about all the things that are wrong with me. well, that’s not precisely true–i couldn’t possibly think about all of them at once. so i’ve been thinking about a number of them. and the more i think about them, the more they really piss me off. some of them are simply dumb habits that elude breaking. some of them are so petty i’m glad i hide them behind my veneer of cynicism. or do i? i’m sure they show through to those people who are discerning about such things. ...

i think it’s definitely wrong that i would consider reading other peoples’ blogs of higher priority than doing any of my cascade of makeup work. in other news, come to my show a week from today!

going to florida for 5 days a week and a half before finals was not a good idea. i don’t think i could be any less motivated to finish strongly. luckily for me, i’m having the easiest quarter of my stanford career, and maybe that will let me slide by without too much trouble. orlando was sweet. i got in thursday morning at 6am. i was a little tired but i didn’t want to go to bed until that night or the jet lag would suck all weekend, so i went running. i hung out with chris nyffeler for a good bit, because he left friday morning for japan. ...

the pedro show was completely awesome. david bazan. what a beautiful, broken man. i’m leaving for home in a few hours. my brother is graduating high school. i’m there through memorial day, and it will be a good break from school.

i had a wonderful night. my crusade bible study had a date night, and each of us found an extremely beautiful and enchanting lady to spend the evening with (i had the honor of taking the lovely erin spokes). we went to dinner and ice skating. i ice-skated once before in my life, in the galleria in dallas, when i wasn’t any older than 10. so it was great fun, and i think give me a few more times out and i’ll be doing quadruple axels and whatever else. ...

my goodness. i just heard thunder outside. do you understand what this means? it’s the first time i’ve heard thunder at this school since…september. glorious!

also, just so you know, it is still ok to leave comments. i’m getting lonely.

it might be sad, but the bookends of my last few days were movies: on the one hand, star wars episode 2, and on the other, a significantly lower-quality movie called orange county. i saw the new star wars movie at 12:01am wednesday night–the first showing on the west coast. it was at one of those mega-plex 45-theatre compound things, so the lines were amazing. one of our group had been there since 2pm, however, braving the crowds, so we walked right to the front of the line at 10:15pm, carrying in ’n out burgers for our diehard compatriots. it was an event–a lot of dressed up people as you’d expect, and we were even interviewed the stanford daily newspaper, and made it in two days later (our whole ancient greek class was there, so it was a novelty). ...