10:38 Mid Tuesday Night   Muesli Granola So my waking life is pretty much 80% school, 10% hanging out with Caleb, 5% belly dancing, and 5% hanging out with new (ish) friends. No work. I did finally make reservations for Portland. The Middle Eastern Dance winter soirée is on Saturday and I'm performing in it. I will be performing a 1 and a half minute choreographed piece...out of 3 hours of a belly dancing show. I was really excited up until now. I want people to come and see me exhibiting the payoff of all my hard work, but I feel guilty because it's $20 a ticket...and I only have a minimal part. I guess I'm excited to perform but feel a bit torn as to whether I should ask people to come or not. Tomorrow I will be receiving a take-home exam in soils. I'm unsure how I should feel about it because apparently he puts this test together to pass students who are otherwise on the verge of failing. Whatever it is, I will do my best on it. I think I've taken pretty good notes. Maybe Shannon and I can get together and work on it on Thursday or something. There's also a chemistry exam tomorrow that I'm a little sketchy on. I think it will go well and I've done a fair amount of study on it, but I'm still slightly worried. I really need to do well or I won't, heh, I won't get an A or A-. Thankfully, I got another 100% on my recitation quiz so that might help out a little. Tonight was the last belly dancing CLASS. I don't know what I'm going to do until February! Be really lazy? I really should practise but i am so bad at that. It's horrible because I really do love dancing. Oh well. As far as deep philosophical wonderings go...I haven't had much..uh, time. to think about things. in leisure. I've had some long conversations in the night with Caleb, and last Tuesday I went to Citrus with Emily and Laurie and had a 3 hour discussion with them, but personal thinking time has been on the cutback. It's a problem. technology is removing me from myself. or maybe School is. or perhaps not having long hours of quiet, repetitive work. Of the "deep philosophical wonderings" I HAVE had, lately, they've mostly been God and religion-related. I went to Church on sunday for the first time in months, literally. Crazy. I enjoyed it. I hereby will be making more of an effort to get up and out on Sunday mornings. I'm gonna have some pretty hefty new years resolutions.