Updates on My Social Life, Blogging Woes, and Fake Musical Prowess

The more astute reader may have noticed that this was posted at 11:50 or so on a Saturday night, but I assure you, my social life is as as lively as ever (Joke? Discuss). The simple explanation is that I woke at bloody 6:30 this morning to go skiing in bizarrely cold weather, a decision I would repeat in an instant but sort of regret nonetheless. The early wakeup aside, skiing has a knack for stripping all energy you may have possessed and make you want to put on sweatpants. I happily succumbed to this urge and spent an oddly enjoyable evening playing Halo and almost watching the Godfather but settling on Scrubs when we realized that the Godfather is three freakin' hours long and frankly, as epic as that movie is, none of us were up for that. Four or five episodes of Scrubs later, I've retreated to my room and am enjoying some late night apple juice and cheezits.

Anyhow, the whole blogging thing, while certainly not losing any of its appeal, has become a bit tarnished for me lately. For two of my classes this semester, I have a 'class blog.' This is a creature new to me. Apparently the idea is to jot down some thoughts once a week or so, bounce ideas off class mates, in general create a forum to continue discussions outside of class. This idea has some fatal flaws. For one, in both classes, the blog is being graded, which sucks any spontaneity straight out of the operation. I suppose this is necessary; I'm not sure that class blogs would rank too high on anyone's priority list otherwise. Also, my professors seem to have something against standard blogging sites and formats, and insist upon using our university blogging function, which resides in some dank and rarely visited dungeon of the St. Lawrence website. I'm not sure if I can do the interface justice, but I have already had one post sort of slip away quietly without a trace into cyberspace, despite the fact that the damn thing autosaves every thirty seconds or so. Grrr.

On an entirely unrelated but pleasant side note, I'm getting damn competent at Guitar Hero: World Tour. Not good, perhaps. But ragingly competent. Except on drums. And vocals.