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I ran out of available stuff to do with about an hour left to go at work today. Then, I did something that went against all the established rules regarding blogs and work – I starting blog hopping. I know, give me a free one million punches to the face. I’m not sure how it happened. It started with me just reading Google News as I waited for the computer I was supposed to be installing new software on to become free again. (The problem with having your main task be upgrade all the software on computers is that people tend to forget that those computers are in use for the whole time that I’m here, unless I’m lucky enough to have the user be away for a day. I would be so much more productive if no one was here.) Then I some how found myself at Learn Movable Type, which just happens to host tutorials on a large number of things I've decided to implement (and answered a lot of the small technical detail questions that I had). It was all downhill from there. Movalog, kottke.org, plasticbag.org, boingboing.net, a little dose of (e) and then finally, the mother load: dooce. And I completely and totally expect to be dooced extremely soon.

I'd like to take this chance to apologize to any of The Mike Haddad Show viewers out there who have noticed the disgusting lack of anything recently. Not that I count this as a valid excuse (because in my opinion there is no valid excuse for this sort of slacking, everyone should churn out good entries with Korean-like proficiency), but I would like to share what a typical day has been like for the last two weeks. It goes something like this: morning, wake up; 9ish-5ish, work; 5ish-7ish, tweak web stuff, read blogs, finish extra work; 7ish-11ish, chill time with Robert and Adam, generally involving a lot of driving (which, for those of you who don't drive and wouldn't know, is extremely draining after a long day); 11ish-12ish, more web/blog stuff; then sleep. So while I don't consider it a valid excuse, I hope it's now easier to see why I've been having trouble staying on top of the updates.

It's really a shame too, because so much has been going on in the last week. Frosh week for this year's first years has lead to a lot of interesting things happening. I'm trying to think back to my frosh and whether or not I enjoyed it; I have to say I did. I don't understand why people are so bitter about their frosh too. I have friends at U of T who are skipping out on frosh events because they say frosh is lame. One of Alex's roommates said the frosh week wasn't really her thing, and after moving in on Saturday I'm pretty sure she went back to spend the week at home. At Mac, the last I had heard Drew was completely avoiding interaction with not just frosh week but EVERYONE in his dorm. Oh, the joys of having a single room. I'm afraid all these people are going to seriously regret skipping out on frosh week. While UW frosh wasn't anything special (they still hadn't figured out how to not treat us like 12 year olds because we could no longer drink at the events), it was still on the whole enjoyable. That one night in the Math Castle where Helen and I completely ROCKED the scavenger hunt/team spirit business, let me tell you. We were nuts. I think there were only two or three of the frosh leaders that didn't like us by the end of it, and they all seemed to fit into the ugly-and-still-in-the-closet-but-obviously-a-flaming-homosexual category. They were most likely bitter because we were pretty and well liked. On the whole though, I had a lot of fun there.

Actually, I had so much fun that I was disappointed to realize that if I get back into residence I won't be there the same time that the first years are going through frosh. Originally I was going to apply to get into residence for the fall term because I was scheduled to go back. When it became apparent that I wasn't going to be able to write my finals in August, and needed the extension to December, I cancelled my residence application for the fall term and started my work term sequence change. I decided that I would just apply for residence over the winter and spring terms (and that's still what I plan to do now). It just didn't dawn on me that I wouldn't be there to experience all the first year jitteriness. I missed out on the real experience of residence. Suffering through mono while your roommates and his friends pull constant all nighters because they wait until 8:00pm the day before something is due in the morning to start homework does not count as experiencing residence. While it's an integral part of the university experience, everyone else got to party and forget about all the noise their roommates made while you just wanted to sleep. I won't even start on the singing-of-dashboard-confessional business. And let me tell you: you don't know just how horrible a song Vindicated is until you've heard it belted out throughout all hours of the night.