Save the Cheerleader...

As I'm sure you've assumed, this is the final stretch here at Suffolk University, Fall - '07. It is around this time that a moment of clariety sweeps over each and every student, follwed abruptly by a series of moments flooded with panic, and if your lucky, a second wave of calm hits, for you realize that every semester it gets done, and every semesterit gets done well.

This process came upon me two nights ago, and since then I have been dilligently (or as dilligently as a philosophy student can work without getting distracted by his own ramblings) working on final papers and my thesis. All is well, like I said, life is good when you realize that the work is pleantiful, but so is time, I don't know why everyone keeps saying there's never any time!

After Eastern Philosophy, a buddy and I spent two hours playing the Japanese board game Go. If you've never experienced Go, it is a game played on a grid of 20x20 squares with 361 stones, 181 black and 180 white. Unlike most games, where the goal is to capture the opponenats pieces, the objective of Go to perserve space. You do get points for captured pieces, but instead of building an army, the stratagy is to build a castle with moveable walls. It was my friends first time, we played for two and a half hours, and did not even finish a game. It was quite intense, but the time flies, and it puts you in the perfect state of mind for a night of writing papers.

After Go, we had a wonderful dinner with all the tour guides at a little place in the North End. After a hearty serving of pesto with fettucini, it was a full evening of mental excersize.
With a class canceled today, it's a bit of work followed by paper #1, dinner and ending the evening with a little paper #2.



Things to come, a visit from my uncle who lives in Southern California. He'll be here on business, and I'll have two nights to show him around the city, an excellent way to end the semester! And also...the final episode of Heroes! I have kept my love for this show out of this blog for way too long! I could not be more excited for next weeks episode, unless of course it wasn't the last one of the season! Regardless, it is going to rock my socks, guranteed! I am a big fan of the online graphic novels, and I hope they continue to produce those, like they did over the summer in between seasons. If only Lost was starting!!


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