Reflections

[00:24] Alex: don't tell me you're up at this hour?
[00:24] Bob: go to sleep

Well, my parents are at a wedding (my second cousin, who, for some reason, forgot to invite me), and I assume that it's common courtesy to stay up until they get back (am I right? :P). So, seeing how it's the new year, let me take this time to reflect on the year 2006.

Uh-oh. I just realized I can't remember back that far. Curse my complete lack of any long-term memory!

Well, let me try something a bit easier: can I look back on winter break? After all, school starts again this Monday.

Let's see, this winter break I managed to:

• - Find a long-lost (as in, never before heard of) relative (most likely).
  
• - Do most of my homework before the last day. (Guys, I'm serious!)
  
• - Wade through A Tale of Two Cities and work on finishing up my Strugatsky collection.
  
• - See Everything is Illuminated, My Cousin Vinny, Glengarry Glen Ross, and A Prairie Home Companion, and enjoy all of them except the last one (no matter how charming the subject matter, the lack of any coherent plotline is never a good sign)
  
• - Discover some new music, none of it any good. Well, maybe that's a bit harsh, some of it was OK, maybe even a few gems. OK, lemme rephrase that: "Discover some new music." Better =)
  
• - (Re)discover Chip's Challenge and Cosmic Encounter Online, and proceed to get addicted to both of them, primarily the second (though the first has its merits too, in a retro sort of war).
  
• - Try to do a bit of math studying, and fail miserably (but I'm not giving up! ... yet)
  
• - Get all the guitar accessories I needed, and begin learning guitar in my free time.
  
• - Promise to write a blog post every day, and then proceed to write 3 or 4 total.
  
• - Fail to even start working on the personal website that I hoped to finish by the end of winter break.
  
• - Eat a lot of muffins (and not sprain my elbow doing so, if anyone's wondering *cough*bob*cough*)
  

Well, that's about it, the long and short of it. Worth using up most of my winter break on the above items? Dunno.