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Happy MLK Day

WHEW.

So.

I have finished my first semester of grad school. Finally. You have no idea how relieving it is knowing that you've completed a stage in a new life. Hopefully this means that my life can get back to a "normal" of school and dating (without relationships--or, I should say, I'm not holding my breath for relationships anymore).

Now the feeling is relief. It's good to be free for a month! Hopefully I can start posting stuff again for all you internet people (both of you) to read.

Have a video:




Peace out yall
Nick

Yet another frivolous, but highly addicting, website.

So I have my own virtual country: I am the chief despot of "The Brewtown Empire," a country of about 4000 inhabitants centered on Milwaukee that includes most of Wisconsin, Lower Michigan, and northern Illinois and Indiana.

This all started from a virtual game website that my friend sent me, and from there, I found Cybernations.net. It's something that I've invested only a couple minutes a day at, but I find I can't stop. Check it out!

The Delicious

I have no idea what this is, but enjoy.

Part I:




Part II:

Whoa... dude.

So I was at work, stumbling through teh intertubez (thanks, stumbleupon) and came across this conservative blog.

Please don't get me wrong. My parents, and I love them, are conservatives who probably would never ever vote for a Democrat ever. I have friends who are conservatives (seriously! Check my facebook friends!), but this blog just seems completely out of left field. Basically, they're saying that President Obama's plan for community service will serve to make a new Hitler Youth.

Why are they so afraid? Why is it that conservatives think we all want to make them into us?

More importantly, how can we get people like this to talk and listen to us? Have we really gotten that bad in America that we think that anyone who disagrees with us wants to nuke the country?

My brain is full

So last week I led discussion in my GEOG 870 (Contemporary Geographic Approaches), and then I wrote a rough draft for a research proposal for 810 (Methods in Geography). My outline and literature review for my 810 was pretty much savaged, so I made sure every step was done very very carefully, and I'm mostly happy with the result.

The upshot is that I spent all last week w0rking very hard, putting my 870 literature review (a rough draft, but still) on the back burner. That is due tomorrow, on Thursday. I also have 6 articles (these are scholarly articles, not the kind of think you find in the New Yorker) to read for the same class.

My brain is exhausted, and I've pretty much resigned that, for tomorrow, I'm going to suck, because I'm not at all prepared on any level.

Thank God for Thanksgiving holiday next weekend.

Of course, this is also my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian. No idea how that'll go over.

I can has break plz?