2008 DONE
Mostly, anywhoo.

It has been busy this past month and a bit! Finals threatened to overwhelm me at a couple of points - I had two papers and two written exams due within a week's period. Ended up doing two all-nighters to get the papers done (strangely, the 12-pager turned out to take me more time than the 34-pager), which is something I hope I have never to do again. As can be seen in my previous entry, Nethack makes a wonderful procrastination tool during exam-study period.

Well, actually, something I will never do again, since I passed all my courses and all. I AM DONE WITH THIS UNIVERSITY BUSINESS. (For now. Grad school is still something I might do, eventually.) Convocation won't be until June, but still, the taking classes part is all done with.

Christmas was pretty good. I mostly just got clothes, along with the requisite chocolates and grooming stuffs, but it was all stuff I needed. Some things for the trip, too - a French press so I can have easy coffee on the road, for one. :D I'll eventually be getting Chrono Trigger DS, but alas, Sean had money flow problems so that one will have to wait for a little. At least I've played the game a dozen times already, so it's no biggie to have to wait a little bit longer. XD

My computer finally got itself upgraded to XP (after a long and arduous battle with motherboard drivers), but alas, the bluescreens that I hoped would go away continue. Still trying to pinpoint the problem therein, but Windows error messages barely tell you anything useful. :\

Also, snow! We had a huge dumping of it in the Lower Mainland, better than I've seen in quite some years. Knee deep around my place, at the peak of it. There was much shoveling, and I got pushed into a snowbank at one point (>.>), and all was well. Trav and I went tobboganing yesterday, actually - unfortunately, the snow'd begun to melt, so the run was all icy and packed and bumpy. My bottom has some rather... interesting bruises on it. Did the splits at one point and flew/faceplanted right over the top of the sled. :D The only lasting injury seems to be a strained middle finger. Have to keep it straight lest I pull it further and devolve into curses. Of course, either way, I'm kind of cursing if I make a fist.

Noooow I just have to find a job to tide me over the next couple of months. Come March, Trav and I will likely be heading out on the great road trip of doom, covering the States and Canada. After that, who knows?

It's not been a bad year, all in all. The three terms of school wasn't very cool, especially with the volume of writing courses I took, but it all worked out in the end. It just feels... really weird to be done with it, at the same time it's a relief. I've been at SFU for, proportionally, the most time against any of my schooling. Suddenly, it's just over and done with. Time to put the books away and find a real job. Time to move out and get a place of my own. It's a little scary, but I think it'll all be okay in the end.

New phase of life, indeed.