So much to do, So little time

With only 5 weeks of classes left in the semester I find myself with absolutely no free time. On top of my school work, Matt and I have the task of finding a place to live. We are going to visit 2 places tomorrow and I'm hoping we really like one so that this quest can be over. I'll post in a couple days and tell you how it went.

My last week of midterms

Even though midterms aren't my favorite part of the semester it at least marks that I am half way through my last semester here at Marist. I have already completed 2 of my midterms this week, both went well. The only midterm I have left is a presentation for US military history. My portion of our project is complete, but the rest of my group seems to be slacking.

Gaming for Hope planning has been going very well. Prizes this year will include a PS3, iPod touch and a 19" LCD monitor. If you live in or around the Poughkeepsie area it will be held on April 19th from 1pm - 1am. We will have numerous console and PC tournaments. Table top games will also be a much bigger attraction this year! Yay for Munchkin and Carcassonne.

Matt and I just finished watching every episode of Battlestar Galactica. I was a little disappointed in the last few episodes of season 3, since the trial of Gaius Baltar wasn't very thrilling. However, the ending was amazing! We also watched Razor, which wasn't as bad as others have made it out to be, but it did answer a few questions. To fill the void in my life created by a lack of science fiction, I decided to start watching Stargate Atlantis. I find it entertaining, but it doesn't quite compare to Battlestar Galactica and Dr. Who. Luckily, in April I will have plenty of sci-fi to keep me satisfied.

Yesterday, Matt and I decided to have a movie night. Now as many of you may know I am extremely indecisive and Matt made me pick the movie. I found an amazing movie that is definitely worth seeing if you haven't yet done so. "The Man From Earth" is a science fiction movie that relies more on plot and the imagination of the viewer than CG to captivate their audience.

Best MOTD Ever!

For some strange reason Putty keeps aborting my connection to one of the school servers. Every time I log back in my connection fails. I have checked my internet connection, re-installed putty, had Matt Bertolini log into the server on his machine and everything seems to be fine, except I still keep getting kicked off. This server seems to hate me and I'm not sure why. The last time I logged in my Message of the Day read "GIVE UP!!!!!" and after about 5 minutes of laughing with Matt I have decided to do just that.

MOTD

As many of you may know I am obsessed with what the school servers give me as my Message of the Day. This all started when I logged into server at work one day and it told me "Be careful when biting into a hamburger". As it turned out Matt and I went to dinner that night with Jay and Nina to The Dubliner, where the only item worth ordering off of the menu are the hamburgers. However, I just couldn't bring myself to eat a hamburger, since I was clearly warned not to do so earlier that morning. Ever since then I have been recording interesting MOTD's that I encounter when logging into school servers. The day I received the message "You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture." I was extremely lazy and spent most of the day lying in bed watching movies, until I read the message and had to get up and do something. I haven't encountered any messages that were as good as the one involving the consumption of a hamburger, but here are a few others I thought were interesting:

12/12 - Be careful when biting into a hamburger.

12/14 - You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture.

12/19 - Bliss is ignorance.

1/24 - Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

1/25 - When I said "we", officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

1/27 - Be ALERT! (The world could use more lerts)

3/4 - Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus?
Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe.

3/7 - Q: How many Bell Labs Vice Presidents does it take to change a light bulb?
A: That's proprietary information. Answer available from AT&T on payment
of license fee (binary only).

3/7 - There was a phone call for you.