In the ‘Zona

Well, spring break is nearing its unfortunate end. Even though State College has been a bit of a ghost town this week, it’s certainly been nice not having to worry about being awakened in the middle of the night by music one or two floors above me. And to sleep in until 8am. And to have the evenings basically completely free. And to catch up on some work/programming/research a little bit at a more relaxed pace. And finally fulfilling my word that I’d come to meteo poker at least once more (even though I said that right after I finished my thesis last June, haha). And to watch “Snatch” with some PSCG friends on a Tuesday night. And watching some good college basketball at night at home (or in the afternoon, as was the case yesterday for the Penn State game). It’s all been really nice, but reality strikes again next week, for the final 7 weeks of the semester.
Another of my tasks that I set for myself this week was to get all of my photos from my trip to Arizona for spring break in 2006 online at long last. I’d been putting that off for a long while (a mean while then? That’s just a little central PA lingo there, haha 😉 because some of the photo albums were rather large, meaning it’d take awhile to stick captions on all the photos. I also played around with how to get my panoramics in the albums, so I just settled for having small versions of them online. Unless I run out of webspace, I should be updating the Penn State photo album page with new albums in the near future, too. Now I’m only two years behind on my photo albums, haha. I’m catchin’ up!
The Pennsylvania primary election is coming up on 22 April, which means that the deadline for voter registration to be eligible to vote in the primary is coming up quickly, on 24 March (it also means that everyone should be avoiding watching local TV here as much as possible for the next 5-6 weeks to avoid puking during commercial breaks, haha). There are quite a few people like this guy who are switching their registration from Republican to Democrat just for the primary, in an attempt to prolong the Barack Hussain Obama vs Hillary Rodham Clinton feud and chaos that’s currently destroying the Democrat party. It’s definitely tempting for me to do the same, but I’d still feel so dirty doing that and voting for either of them. More than likely, apathy will take over and I won’t bother to change my PA voter registration temporarily. And then maybe I’d still cast my worthless vote for Fred! if his name is still on the ballot.
Well, I’d better get to some apartment-cleaning, because Betsy and Carl are coming to visit this weekend! Betsy’s bus from DC will be getting here a bit after noon, and then Carl will be driving down from Cornell in time for trivia hopefully. Hopefully the weather will cooperate enough for us to go on a hike (I just bought several hiking/trail maps yesterday at Appalachian Outdoors), but even if it doesn’t, it should be a really fun weekend and a fine end to spring break!