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My Life, an Update

I guess to deviate away from my typical techie articles, I'll write a bit about my life and what I've been doing in the last 6 to 8 months (since I know nobody reads my blog for the tech stuff anyways, so here's to you faithful readers, if you even exist O.o).  My life is an interesting thing to reflect on, which I find myself doing daily, right now even.  I find myself replaying my day in my head, critiquing myself, envisioning the next day, my goals, my future... all the time.  In fact, I think so much, I find myself wishing I could just shut it off sometimes, it causes some pretty bad insomnia most nights, but I know this stems from my anxious personality, so I guess it's just who I am so I'm learning to deal.  So, my life now?  What am I doing?  Well I'm entering my third year in college, wishing it was my fourth, unlike most people my age who seem to want to stay students forever, I find myself ready to move on to the next step, find a career, a steady girl friend, a house, etc. (of course, my whole life I've always wanted to live older than I was, something I try to fight and live a bit more in the present so as not to let it pass by and regret it later, which inevitably happens, but such is life.  I've been told more than once that I'm 20 going on 40 :/).  I am excited though to not be taking a math class this semester (I'm done with my math minor save a stats class! woot!), even though I enjoy math, math classes I've come to hate, in fact I'm just an all around bad student, but I love learning, ironic?  Eh.  It will be a good year, each year here has been getting progressively better as I make better friends with the people I know here, get to know the city better, and find myself more and more comfortable here.  I find myself happy to call Kalamazoo home.

My summer was, relaxing, but too hot.  I. Hate. Heat.  Like, I would not be unhappy if it never got above 60 again (and my want to move to the North West Coast and Alaska becomes more clear).  I am really looking forward to fall and winter, my favorite seasons.  But, of the few things I like about summer, I do enjoy sailing.  I didn't get to sailing as much as I would have liked to this summer, but I did get to go with my Dad a few times, and I really enjoyed it.  I hope to own my own sail boat some day soon (have to graduate first... O.o).

It's a fun hobby to say the least, something I'd like to get better at, although I have been getting OK at trimming and knowing what to do and when.

Music.  Music has become such a part of my life.  I listen to music much more than I used to, like there is rarely an idle moment where I don't have something playing.  I use last.fm addictively, like most people use Facebook.  Radiohead has become my soul, Death Cab my heart.  From there I've been branching out slowly, discovering artist after artist showing up in the "you might like" area.  At the moment I'm moving (slowly) away from Breaking Bells (though never away away, just not all the time) and discovering The Flaming Lips.  They are a pretty excellent band.  Rdio has made discovering new music 10000000x easier because I can listen to my music on my phone as well as my computer, and at least 20% of my music listening is in the car (totally made up statistic, but probably true, in case you were wondering ).  But yeah.  Music.  (http://www.last.fm/user/aka_butters).

I guess I'll be done here, save something for a more frequent update, maybe in a month.... we'll see.  I'm sure they'll be several less interesting post about whatever I'm working on at the moment, deal, it's what I do.  Anyways, the sun is greeting me, that horrible horrible thing.  I apologize in advanced for my grammar and/or spelling, blame my lack of any desire in my youth to learn any better (although I do try now) and the fact that it's almost 7am and I haven't gone to bed yet... But yeah, there you have it.  One update.