Well, I've been doing a GREAT job of keeping this site up-to-date lately. So, I guess it's time to bring things up to the present and see if I can keep up with posting better in the future.

First, the site will be going down for a period of time over this weekend. I'll be doing some serious server maintenance that's effecting everyone I host along with most of my own sites. It's going to be fun, though better than the past week of stress.

This week I've had to deal with two mid-terms (I'm only taking two grad classes) and Condolezza Rice speaking in town. I'll say that when you're handling ticket requests, most people are nice and understanding. However, there's always a group that are nothing but a pain in the arse and no matter how many times or ways you tell them the same thing, they never get it through their thick skulls.

Fortunately for me I have a wonderful girlfriend that took the time to drive to Louisville and surprise me Tuesday night. She brought stuff to fix me dinner and help me relax before my test. I also had a chance to visit my parents over the weekend, which brings with it some minor stress right now due to how they feel about certain things in my life, but it was a good time. And with going to Lexington to see BNL on Friday, the weekend was really good. I took the time to buy and download the mp3's from the performance today and I'm burning them to CD as I type this.

Other things going on:

The Louisville Patriot is back up and running and I've joined up to be production chief. That means I get to do all of that layout work that I always loved when I was Editor-in-chief of it the last time it was up and running.

I've had a large number of friends and fraternity brothers get engaged lately. Aaron Hatfield got engaged to his girlfriend Chrissy after dating since around Labor Day. Brent Selch got engaged to Emily after even less time. And Alan Wild got engaged to his girlfriend finally after she had moved to Texas several months ago.

On the note of relationships, I have had a first in my experience with women. Sarah sent me flowers last week. I've never had a girl send me anything like that, it was a bit weird to me to say the least. But she's been great. She even came out a couple weekends ago and helped me reorganize my whole apartment. It's hard to believe that we've only been dating since November and didn't even know each other before October. But an interesting thing happened while going through old photos that weekend. I came across the CD's of the photos from the CR convention in 2000 that I helped chair at UofL. In one picture you can clearly see the two of us. Same room, less than 60 people, and we still didn't really meet each other until a few months ago.

On a final note, I probably won't have another post until the middle of next week. I have the layout of the paper to do and the major server maintenances that I have to perform before Monday. Plus, I'm going down to Somerset with Sarah and spending time with her and her family. Maybe I'll get a chance to go horseback riding again.