I headed over to Chris’ house today so we could exchange gifts…. I gave her a book on OSPF and I also took a Christmas Tape that she loves and put it onto CD (and spent many moons cleaning up the audio) because it is out of print (and was never available on CD in the first place). She gave me 2 DVD’s ( Seven and Jurassic Park) and a book on " The Sopranos" (which looks pretty cool, and I hadn’t heard of)..

I am all excited, I have delivered a few gifts now to a few people, and my Christmas spirit is definately in full swing now…

We are going out to see all the family tomorrow, and we are getting to stay in on Christmas day… Unfortunately, this is because my mother has to work on Christmas day… Blow.

I pseudo-woke-up to My Roommate, Jon Parise’s visit early this morning, although I was already kinda awake. Last night I read some more of Cryptonomicon, I would like to finish it before I go back to school, cause I simply don’t have the time to read when classes are in swing…

Well, I didn’t do much today…. I helped my mom out with various stuff, and that’s about it… I waited around for quite awhile tonight for Chuck and John to come over, but I guess they ended up being too busy with their (John’s) Christmas shopping…

Chris had asked me to come over today, but I told her I couldn’t cuz they were coming over, and now I feel dumb. :) I will probably hang out with Chris tomorrow, so we can exchange gifts and stuff…

As planned, Chris came over around 5pm this evening, and we headed out to Ledgewood so she could do the Christmas shopping for her folks. We looked around in the Ledgewood mall, and we weren’t satisfied with the selection. We decided to head over to a few stores in the Roxbury mall (which is like 1000 yards away), but first we grabbed some dinner at Ruby Tuesday’s. I had only been there once before, and the meal was pretty good, but my usual stomache problems soon surfaced…. I should get that checked out some time….

We then headed over to the other mall, and she got everything that she needed, which was good. We came back to my house around 9:30pm, and she helped decorate the tree with my family… Lotsa fun, I haven’t really had a chance to do that since I left for RIT (as far as I can remember, at least)….

I wish I had the opportunity to spend more time with her…. We always have lots of fun, and even though we have had our disagreements and problems in the past, she still means alot to me… I look forward to spending more time with her over this break (even though she has a pretty packed schedule).

nighty night…. :P

Chris is on her way over, she needed to do some last-minute Christmas shopping for her folks, so she called me up to see if I wanted to go. My car acted like shit on the way home last night, and I need to get it ready for sale, so I asked her to come and pick me up (since she doesn’t live near any malls anyway… :P).

I fell asleep around 2am last night…. I was in a total coma until about 5am, when I woke up to excruciating pain in my right arm. I tried to will myself out of it, but that didn’t work. I kinda hoped it would go away until 6am, when I finally got up for some drugs.

Luckily, my mother (Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy) was already awake (seeing my sister Larissa off to her last day of class), and she prescribed some Motrin and a heating pad, which eventually did the trick, and I passed back out… I woke up today around 11:30a, and my arm is fine now… Bizarre..

My mom always has a 2-liter of Coke waiting for me when I come home…. She rocks… :)

I’m back….. It was a long ordeal, and Ryan and I managed to lose Jon around Scranton (or, rather, he lost us), but we made it to my house with no problems.. We waited at the Rockaway mall for awhile for Ryan’s sister to show up to take him away to Westphal land, but she eventually showed, and all is good.

I can say I am already 1000x happier being home, and I have barely settled in yet… :)

Getting out of here early, to avoid the bad weather…. Wish me luck (on whether or not my car will survive.. :P)

This was 10% of my exam:

Calculate pH given [H+] = 9.25

Now, this might require some work, but the professor was kind enough to give the following formula on the front page of the test:

pH = -log[H+]

Now…. Come on… You are gonna give me 10 points for manipulating a logarithm?!?!? Well, I am not complaing, I am just baffled… :)

Now I am just-about all packed up for my trip home tomorrow. I have an ample supply of clothes, movies, and computer gear to keep me busy over break. :) I am back to using my old mouse so I could pack my new one away. All I have left to grab is my computer tomorrow, and I should be set.