Originally, I had planned to write this post when I got back from Oregon. Then, I was going to write it on Labor Day, and then I was going to write it after my first day of classes. Oh well. At this point, I’m proud of myself for writing it at all. (And really, if you wanted to go back even further, I was going to write a post with this same title last fall.) I suppose what I will do is go back and recount the past couple weeks.

Oregon

As they tend to be, my trip to Oregon was great. The weather was much warmer than I would have liked, and the eighteen days I was out there for seemed like three, but I still had a great time with Michelle. I long for the day when there are no more goodbye scenes in airports.

Back to Long Island

After I got back, I had about a week and a half of freedom before classes started. I spent my first week back shrink-wrapping newspapers and earning ten dollars an hour for doing so. I also tried to relax as much as possible, knowing full well that in another week free time would be at a premium.

Classes started this past Wednesday. I have never liked fall semesters, but so far this one hasn’t been so bad. Hopefully that isn’t just the fact that I’ve only had two days of classes. I’m going to be optimistic, though, and maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised come December.

Miscellany

As I alluded to in my last post, I upgraded from XP to Vista back in June. Most of the things I’ve heard about Vista have been negative, but I just don’t see it. Is it still Windows? Sure. Is it OS X? Definitely not. Regardless, I’ve been running it for the past couple months and I haven’t had any problems, which is something I’ve never been able to say about a Microsoft operating system. I still plan to make the switch at some point (and those new iMacs are so nice), but Vista has made me feel better about the fact that I can’t do so any time soon. Office 2007 is pretty nice, too; I’m actually writing this post in Word.

In my last post, I asked the Mets to bury the rest of their division as though they read my blog. They were promptly swept in four games by the Phillies the first week I was back, but they’ve regained all the games they’d lost since then. I’ll take it. Speaking of sports, I had forgotten how much I missed football. Today is a good day.

I had envisioned this post being longer than it is. Oh well.

Posted on 9 September 2007 | Comment

Tomorrow morning, I’m flying out to Oregon to see Michelle. I will be there until the 25th, when I return to New York. After I get back, be on the lookout for entries on my upgrade to Windows Vista (two thumbs up), my new job (selling alcoholic beverages), and a host of other topics. If I ever get around to writing them, that is.

Goodnight kids.

PS:

Dear New York Mets,

Please bury the rest of the NL East while I’m gone.

Love,
Andrew

Posted on 6 August 2007 | Comment

I have a few moments to catch my breath before I head to sleep, so I figured I’d stop neglecting my blog and do a quick update.

It’s been over a month since my last update, and even longer since my last update that wasn’t just me making excuses for not updating. In that time, school weighed very heavily on me; a paper or two would be due one week, I’d have a test next week, and so the cycle would go. It wasn’t fun, and unfortunately, I let my pledge to update slip.

Since my last post, I turned 22. Not much different than 21, really.

In just a few hours, I leave for Oregon to see Michelle for the first time since January. I’m already up later than I should be, and so this update won’t be nearly as lengthy as I’d like it to be. Perhaps I’ll do a recap when I get back.

Sorry for not updating, guys. I’m as disappointed with myself as you are, and I shall strive to do better. Be back in a week.

Posted on 29 March 2007 | Comment [4]

/me sighs

So here we are almost 3 weeks into the new year, and I still don’t have an update with “2006” in the date. I am sorry, my dear readers (reader?), I really am. As I was just explaining to The Scot, I’m not much for doing small updates, as I prefer longer updates with more substance. However, by the time I actually get to where I want to update, I can’t remember half the stuff I wanted to write about in the first place. I guess the best way to remedy that is going to be this: when interesting stuff happens, I’ll write about it, hopefully in a timely fashion. However, my life is not always terribly interesting, so I can’t promise there will be much [interesting] content. I hope you can deal with that. =o)

So yes, as promised, here is an update about my trip to Oregon.

After getting approximately 4 hours of sleep, I woke up at around 4:30 AM on December 29th, showered & dressed, made sure I had packed everything I needed to bring, and my dad and I left for JFK International Airport at around 5:30. Neither flight was terribly interesting…a little turbulent, but nothing major. (Aside: The innovative touch screen control of the Nintendo DS is not particularly well suited to turbulent airplanes.) Landed in San Francisco, dashed down to the departure gate for my connecting flight to Portland, had my carry-on randomly checked because of the Playstation 2 in my bag (Michelle’s Christmas present), boarded the plane to Portland, and touched down a couple hours later.

I was a little anxious getting off the plane…I mean, I knew for sure that I was in love with Michelle, and all that good stuff, but there was always the chance that maybe I wouldn’t like her, or that she wouldn’t like me. I didn’t see that as being the case though, so I dashed off the plane and walked around looking for her, since I wasn’t exactly sure where I’d be meeting her.

After about a minute or two of that, I noticed this really cute girl leaning against one of the poles looking at something off to her right. A second later, it registered that I’d found her. There was that moment where our eyes locked for the first time, and the next thing I knew I was finally hugging the girl of my dreams, the woman I was going to marry one day.

A good five minutes later, we walked down to baggage claim and got my suitcase, then went out to the car and headed the two-ish hours back to her house.

I can’t say there’s very much to write about concerning my time there. Most of our time was spent snuggling at her house. But you know what? The trip couldn’t have been any more perfect than it was. I mean, other than if it were longer, but that doesn’t count. I’ve never been as happy as I was for those 5 days Michelle and I spent together. Getting back home and being apart wasn’t easy for the first week, and it seems like it’s been longer than two weeks since I got back home, but I now have those 5 days to look back on, and the promise of more good times to come in the future. The future is looking very, very bright.

One side note: coming home, American decided to ‘delay’ my bag, which means I got home on Wednesday and my bag got home on Friday, and when I got it back, the retractable handle thing was busted beyond all repair. I’ve tried getting in touch with their damaged baggage office or whatever it is, but I haven’t had any luck yet, so I’m not really sure what to do. If anyone has had any experience with this sort of thing, and can offer insights, that would be a tremendous help.

Moving on.

My winter break is about over, as classes start the 23rd. With any luck, this is going to be my last full semester at Nassau; I then plan on taking 3 credits during the summer session in June, and then I’ll be done there. That raises the question of where I’m going afterwards, but I’ll figure that out. I think so, anyway.

I guess that about does it for this update. I really will try to be better about it from here on out. I’ve said that before, to no avail, so we’ll see how it goes. So yes. Stay tuned…

Posted on 19 January 2006 | Comment [3]