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Out With a Whimper

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The semester ends in two weeks and the finals rush has officially begun. For the next two weeks I will become intimate with one of Radford lab’s 800 MHz G4 iMacs with a yellowed keyboard and Microsoft mouse. The worst thing that could happen right now would be if I accidently found a Nintendo Wii.

Astute readers may already know that I plan to spend the next semester abroad in Germany. The problem with this little plan is that Marburg University has yet to return their reply to my application. I have been waiting anxiously for months. It just became easier to tell people that I was going to study abroad than explain the whole situation.
I’m still officially enrolled in classes here at Oshkosh next semester. Why? Because the semester in Germany would not begin until April and again, I still have not received word from them. So what am I to do with my time when the semester ends in two weeks? I’ve been looking for a job, but no one is hiring. Do I bother buying books for next semester only to drop the courses here at Oshkosh? Do I move in with my parents (shudder) for the time until I leave? I do not have the money to shack of up in Greunhagen at $240/month for almost three months. The German universities have been calling my references. Hopefully they come through soon.

See that unshaven creature hunched over in the corner of the lab? If you see me come say hello. Bring me a coffee and give me a much needed break.

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Let’s Dig for Treasure

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On the way home from Thanksgiving Kaela spotted an abandoned property along WI 151. We decided to pull in to the cemetary adjacent to the abandoned farm and take a look around. Amazingly, the previous occupant of the house was a teacher at Green Bay West High School in 1965. I graduated from there in 2002! I took a good number of photos of the excursion. Take a look!

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Random Thoughts

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I am jonesing for a Nintendo Wii at the moment, but they are all sold out. It appears that whoever has been living in my room has been doing so in abject squalor for quite some time. There are two major projects I have to have done in the next 48 hours. The first is a presentation on German concentration camps and the other is an oral interpretation of Goethe’s classic Faust. My iBook is still suffering from video problems which I have not gotten around to fixing. The main theme from Dune is currently playing in iTunes. That is too bad because I was thinking about The Highlander. For Thankgiving I will be in Pardeeville, Wisconsin. Where is my acceptance letter from Philips-Universitaet Marburg, Deutschland? It has been almost eight weeks since I sent that application out. Maybe I should shave before going upstairs to watch [adult-swim] on Cartoon Network. Dethklok is by far my favorite show in that programming block. Now the Overture from Katamari Damacy is playing in iTunes. I’m getting hungry and there is a caramel Drumstick waiting for me. I spent way too much at Joe’s Sample House this weekend. God, I really want a Nintendo Wii…

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The Intricacies of English

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Prefixes are additions to root words that change the meaning of the word. In English these prefixes are not uniform in their alteration of meaning. For example take the prefix “in-.” In- can have both positive and negative connotations. Add in- to the word “credible” and you have incredible, which carries a positive connotation. Add in- to the word “competent” and you have incompetent, which carries a negative connotation.

This is what I think of when I am bored.