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For whatever reason, I truly believed I’d be getting lots of things done over Thanksgiving break. Silly me. I spent the first three days of break (Friday night, Saturday, Sunday) immersed in Rome: Total War, which I’d had sitting here for a month or so, but hadn’t had time to install and/or play. So, I treated myself to a little carnage on Friday evening, and that carnage spilled over to the weekend, as well. I did muster the energy to take Alicia to the airport Saturday morning, and I spent several hours on Sunday building a new computer for Justin (which is better than mine now, *mutter*), so the weekend wasn’t a ~total~ loss.

I did do a bit of homework on Monday. I spent a good four hours working on a website for a four-person project I’ve got going on, before switching for a couple of hours to the website for the sixteen-person project. I felt madly productive, and treated myself to (you guessed it) a bit of Rome: Total War.

I don’t remember much of what I did on Tuesday, but I can about guarantee that it didn’t involve homework. I think I played R:TW in the morning, until the last of my roommates headed home. Then I went downstairs and watched Willow, cause all my roommates had watched it the day after Halloween while I was doing homework and felt all left out and stuff. I’m pretty sure I was also drinking coffee and Bailey’s, since I had nowhere to be. I’ve no recollection of what I did Tuesday night (and no, it wasn’t because of the Bailey’s. It’s because I’ve no short term memory to speak of).

Wednesday is also mostly a loss. I watched Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers sometime in the afternoon, since Willow had put me in the mood for something fantastic. Later in the evening, I’m pretty sure I headed to Lisa’s house to try and fix her computer. Computer: 1. Rob: 0.

Thursday was turkey day, so I did the turkey thing with the family down in Des Moines. Lisa was also in attendance, which turned out to be an interesting experiment. If you ask my little brother, there’s a pretty decent chance that Lisa and I are not only married (we eloped), but Lisa’s expecting. You can blame my sister and mother for that one… they are horrible at keeping ’secrets’ from Willie. *grin* After the family thing, Lisa and I headed back to Ames and watched Return of the King, since you can’t really watch #2 without following it with #3. Except I don’t ~own~ #3, so I had to use Lisa’s copy.

Friday morning I made a copy of #3, and then made the mistake of testing it in the DVD player to make sure it’d work. Ended up watching the whole thing again. Friday afternoon, in a desperate and largely successful attempt to avoid homework, I dismantled my computer and rearranged the innards to make it cleaner, prettier, and quieter. Justin’s computer project got me in the mood to play with computers again. That evening, I had dinner at Carlos O’Kelly’s (Irish-Mexican?) with Lisa and her parents, who’d driven from Georgia for a visit. T’was a good time. I tried to fix Lisa’s computer again. Computer: 2. Rob: 0.

I spent all of Saturday morning and afternoon attempting to do homework, to little avail. I simply couldn’t concentrate. I gave up in disgust around 6pm, I think. I ended up going out that evening with Megan, since it was her 21st birthday. T’was a good time. Came home from the bar and watched Bend it Like Beckham, though I couldn’t remember it by Sunday morning.

Sunday morning, I re-watched Bend it Like Beckham. :) That’s the sort of movie I daren’t watch while my roommates are around, so I figured I’d better get it out of the way before peoples got home. I spent all that evening immersed in homework, though my productivity was less than ideal.

Monday! Back to school. I was surprisingly productive in the office, and had a decent 104 class, despite my student’s vacation. In the evening, instead of doing homework like I should, I spent manyplus hours (well, like six) working on Lisa’s computer. Computer: 2. Rob: 1! It’s now running beautifully (considering it’s five years old), though it’s also running on my spare RAM, HD, and video card.

Today had better be more productive. As you can easily see by the mere existence and length of this entry, however, I’m off to a very bad start. *sigh* Just can’t seem to get back into the swing of it. Eventually, deadlines will kick me in the face hard enough to get me motivated. Like in five hours, when I have to give a presentation on the website portion of the four-person project, and I don’t know what I’m going to say yet. Hmm. That did it. Off to work.