Wrapping up the school year

Woohoo! We have internet again! It was doubtful for a while there. The short version of that is that I was briefly convinced Cox Communications was not, in fact, my friend in the digital age. We had it scheduled for Thursday by 5 p.m., and it didn't happen. They said it happened, but when the servicemen came the next day, they were angry at the guy who said he hooked it up. They were angry because he didn't do anything, and they had to do his work for him. But it's here now, and I'm able to use it to help me do my homework. And by homework, I mean of course that our shiny new connection is so saturated by UDP and SSH traffic that I can barely load pages. Azureus, WinSCP, and Firefox. It's like the holy triumvirate or something.

We did Christmas with my mom's side of the family this weekend. It was cool, we did a different type of gift exchange than we had done before where we drew numbers, picked a gift in numerical order, then opened them one at a time and everyone else got the chance to steal them from us. It worked out better than I had hoped, in that I got the gift I brought, which was a Die Hard DVD and a pound of peanut brittle. That's Christmas, folks.

Now I'm working on my last paper of the semester, for Modern Epic Fantasy. It has something to do with how much hobbits don't like giant spiders, or something like that. It's due tomorrow, and I'm planning to work on it pretty late tonight. Of course, Azureus won't run itself. Well, okay, it will. But it won't watch itself run. Unless you count its logs. But it really won't ring a bell and tell me when my strange, obscure, never-been-on-video TV shows are done downloading. Maybe it would, I hadn't actually looked into that. Maybe after the paper is finished.