Thanksgiving is on the way

Tomorrow evening, Ann and i head up to her house for Thanksgiving. i'm looking forward to that.
The week we get back will be spend working on my big paper for American Diplomatic History. I'm writing on US foreign policy regarding copyright law. It's been hard to find sources, since most of the stuff isn't of interest to the academic community, and regular news doesn't report the details i'd like to have in my paper.

Shifting gears, i would like to spend the remainder of my space here condoning the use of IM as a communications venue for relationships. i fully admit that it should not be the only method of communication used, but to discount it simply because of physical proximity is rash. Ann and i spent the evening have a discussion about the merits or lack thereof of IM via Ashley Peck, a mutual friend. Ann has this silly notion that two people sitting next to each other shouldn't use IM as part of their communication. After she made this statment, I proceeded to only communicate to her via IM. Untill she signed off, at which point I started sending her emails :)

Anyway...

I'm going to sign out here and wander off...

Well, it's been a while

Well, it's beena while. I'm back at Taylor. It's good to be back with friends, but I am looking foward to being done. I graduate this coming Dec. Not entirly sure what I'll be doing after that.

Thoughts for now: initially just live at home. Try and get a job doing something around town to pull in some money. Later, probably early Feb. I'd like to head down to OM. In talking with Jeff (the guy I lived with when I worked there), he said I might be able to just come down and work for them. They'd give me food and a place to live, and I'd do work, like mow lawns or something. It'd be a time for me to get away from my habits, and rediscover myself. *groans* i hate how cliche that sounds. Yet, true. Anyway...

I'm thinking about working with Emmaus Ministries. They work in Chicago with male prostitutes. I'm looking for something that is working with the kinds of people that the Church usually avoids or shuns.

I'm down here in the dungeon tonight, answering questions from people about DataStructures. I've been reading Blue Like Jazz. Don Miler, the author, has a great way with words. I wish I could write like him.

Ok, I just finished the book. Good book.

I'm tired.

Later