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Christmas has come and gone. Now it’s back to work… I’m not very motivated, so I thought I’d squeeze in a quick blog post.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, enjoyed time with family and friends and took advantage of the days off work and/or school to relax. I had a great [...]

Have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas everyone!
I leave you with this, the video for Santa Claus Is Watchin’ You by the very funny and talented
Ray Stevens.

Great new song by
Sanctus Real - We Need Each Other.

Yes! Peter Jackson, producer of the LOTR trilogy, and New Line Cinema, who owns the rights to The Hobbit, have worked out their differences.

PETER JACKSON AND NEW LINE CINEMA JOIN WITH MGM TO PRODUCE “THE HOBBIT”
Expected release dates are 2010 for the first Hobbit movie, and 2011 for the “sequel.” Woohoo!

Just because there aren’t enough lists out there this time of year and I should be studying instead of blogging, here are a whole slew of motivational quotes:
Top 100 Motivational Quotes.
The “top” 10 are:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.- Aristotle
The best way out [...]

Cracked.com asks, and answers,
Which is the Greatest Trilogy?
In the post, pitting Star Wars vs. The Matrix vs. Lord of the Rings, they “quantifiably conclude which film trilogy is superior.”
The winner? Star Wars…but don’t take it too seriously. It’s a humorous article.
Of the three, LOTR is my pick by far. The [...]

As many of you know, I’m color blind. You know that test, with the
circles and numbers inside? I took one of these tests at the doctor when I was younger and only saw 3 of the nine or ten numbers. Thankfully, I’m not as bad as my brother, who only [...]

This morning I caught myself doing something backwards. I had an epiphany about it and thought I’d share, hoping to encourage others.
I had honest, good intentions and motivations about doing something for a friend and proceeded with my course of action, a little unsure about it but still thinking it was the right [...]

Happy 30th Birthday, Robin! Welcome to the old people’s club

Ahhh…one final is over! Woohoo! My other final is on the 20th, so it’s still a ways off - and too close to Christmas. Given how stressed and overwhelmed I’ve felt this semester, it feels good to know that I’m going to come out of it with good grades…and “only” 50 [...]