Things have been very busy but simultaneously not too exciting. I am beginning to ease my way into the culture at work. I have had a few actual assignments now and social interactions are coming more easily.

I have been keeping busy in the evenings by doing all the little things that got put off as a grad student. Mostly this involves fixing or replacing things around the house but I also joined the friends of the library and resubscribed to all my favorite magazines.

Now that I have had the Christmas/New Years break I feel more of a clean demarcation between school and work. Because I started work while still in school I never had a moment where I said to myself "I am done with school now". E.B. mentioned that classes started today and it hit me that classes had begun and I wasn't in any of them. What an alien concept.

This weekend was strange. Friday we played Axis & Allies at John's apartment. On Saturday Wanke and I had dinner at Olive Garden just like we used to when the dorm kitchens were closed on Sundays, only this time Lehmann was there. After that there was a great deal of drinking at Eight West. At some point Scott and Cretia showed up. We moved bars when Eight West closed at midnight and eventually Lehmann our genetically designated driver dumped everyone back at Casa de Noland to sleep it off. I spent most of Sunday recuperating from the prodigious amount of gin I had poured into my bran the previous evening.

I suppose you have noticed already that I purchased The Legend of Zelda : Wind Waker. It is an excellent game which is made more excellent by the fact that I found it used for 17 USD. Also to those who don't like the cell shading I can only quote Gabe of Penny Arcade: