Free iPod

Hey, and if you haven't heard, you can actually get a free iPod. For real...just go here and check it out. If you're still in doubt, go read this Wired article

Genesis

And on the seventh day after its release, Tom said, "Let me have an iPod Shuffle". He received the iPod, and saw that it was good, and he blessed it. And there was much rejoicing in the land.

Changes

So, now I'm in day three of pseudo-singlehood. I had a talk with Sarah over the phone last night, and she seems to be doing alright. Yesterday I was pretty down most of the day...it seemed like it took a while for it to really set in and hit me. Today though, I think I'm gonna have to change my attitude...insteady of moping around and doing nothing but play NCAA Football on the Gamecube or go to the gym to wile away the hours, I should look at this as an opportunity to make new friends and aquaintances. I suppose I could go out on a few dates with some girls if I felt like it. I've gotta try doing something to fight the loneliness.

In good news, today my iPod Shuffle arrives...Oh happy day! It actually came yesterday, but the FedEx guy couldn't leave it because I wasn't there. I've signed the slip he left on my door, and by the end of today I will be enjoying my new iPod. Nothing like the simplicity, ease and elegance of an Apple product to ameliorate my pain. I'm a consumer, I know it, and I ain't ashamed to admit it. The first step is admitting I have a problem.

Till next time

Oi

Well, I've had quite the time since my last post. Last Thursday I couldn't find my cell phone, so that stressed me out quite a lot, 'cause I hadn't talked to Sarah in such a long while. I ended up finding it in the back of my car...of course, it was in an obvious spot like that. After doing nothing Friday night (I don't even bother in Hillsdale anymore), I was getting ready to head up to Ann Arbor on Saturday morning when Sarah called with important things to talk about. I guess she's got some issues in our relationship that she has to deal with. Nonetheless I came up to Ann Arbor and visited her, and after a good talk, we went and had a very nice dinner at an excellent country Italian restaurant in Ann Arbor. All in all a very nice time. I did nothing on Sunday, except Sunday evening I got a call from my mother, telling me that I'd forgotten to get the backpack out of her car when I'd returned from Ann Arbor. So, all my books were now in Terre Haute, Indiana. So, I had to spend 5 hours Monday evening driving halfway to Terre Haute and meeting mom to get the books. At least I got a Pizza Hut meal and a couple beers out of it.

Yesterday morning, then, everything seemed fine, until Sarah called me again. It turns out I was a real asshole to her before I left for Europe, without even realizing it, and she needs a "break" for a little while to deal with everything and be sure about us. Great. Right when I think things with Sarah are really well, and I finally don't feel like I need a break, she does. It's sorta ironic, I suppose. So, I guess I'm sorta single now. I'm trying to not be selfish, but all I know is that my Saturdays with Sarah are the only fun I ever have...I don't really have many friends around here anymore, and I'm really tired of parties and drinking. Yet, if she needs time, she needs time. I had my break over the summer in Europe where I got a chance to think things through, and if she needs that too, so be it. I'll survive.

von Eichendorff rocks!

Good news...the von Eichendorff that I mentioned yesterday has actually turned out to be very pleasant to read. It actually reads like normal German and is readily comprehensible! I was really starting to feel quite stupid after reading Kleist and Goethe, but with this I'm able to read it and barely need a dictionary. It's a great little story too, about this Taugenichts ("good for nothing") who gets kicked out by his hard-working miller father and sets off on his own. He's the classic romantic who never worries about a thing, and immediately gets picked up by a couple good-looking foreign girls in a travel-carriage and ends up at a castle, where he's charming enough to be hired as an assistant gardener. Of course, he doesn't work at all...he has much more fun observing the women who live in the castle. Fun stuff.

Otherwise, all is cool. Going to the gym tonight. I'm using a workout from eas.com right now...I like it quite a lot. Its a good, balanced general strength workout. I already feel much healthier after only 2 and a half weeks.

Tonight Taliesin will be playing in the snack bar...it's really our first performance since last year, so it should be fun...we've been sounding great. 10:00 pm, snack bar...be there.

Tschues!