Paideia owns my soul...for the next two days anyways

Hello all!

I am writing you from the heat of battle. It's been a pretty one-sided fight up to this point, with Paideia dealing out most of the hits. After going to the corner and getting a pep talk, I'm finally back in the ring and throwing most of the punches now.

Basically, I'm pulling an all nighter which will hopefully result in a good grade on this dreadful research paper. I actually switched my topic tonight (it's due on Wednesday). It was originally the going to be focussed on the conflict of religion between the conquering Spaniards and native Mayans, but now I sort of morphed it into the similarities between the two societies in their religions. You'd be surprised how similar the ancient Maya's Polytheistic views are to the Spaniard's "rock solid" monotheism.

But, I can bore you with far more important topics, so moving on.

I am closing in on the end of the first half of the second semester of my first year of college, which means SPRING BREAK IS IN 4 DAYS! I usually don't get too ecstatic about breaks, but I am looking forward to this one so much. More than likely I won't get to sleep in any more than I normally do, but whatever, it will be nice to be at home. My birthday is also in 9 days. Woo hoo....19....nothing happens. I consider it a preview for every birthday except my 21st for the rest of my life. I wish there was a list of exciting things that happen after the teen-age years. Instead, it's along the lines of "wake up, realize you're older, go to work, go to bed." YAY growing old! I'm not too worried though, I'm sure my parents have something really exciting planned. It's probably along the lines of cleaning out the attic, or sweeping out the garage.

Either way, writing a paper stinks when you don't use an outline and hit writers block. What's worse is the fact that it's a research paper and I should just be able to pull out some notes and get going again. I fail. After going through my notes twice and getting no inspiration whatsoever, I decided to update my blog. Here I am!

So, here are some of my goals for spring break. I'll put an asterisk next to the ones I think will happen.

1. Sleep

2. Have some breakfast

3. Make money

4. Not spend money

5. See some friends

6. Waste a ton of time on facebook and xbox *


I have high hopes.

Really, I don't think it'll be too bad. It will be nice to have a change of scenery and be without the stresses of school for a whole week. I think that's why most people go on vacations. I guess I missed that memo. Well, I hope all of you get to enjoy or have enjoyed a nice spring break. For most people, I really just rubbing in the fact that I get a super long spring break. I know my high school had a hard time rationalizing giving us Good Friday off. Jeez!

Later!
Jake