I’ve been doing nothing but sleeping, eating, and playing different video games so far during my winter break, and it’s fabulous. I feel like such a slug! I get up a little before noon, eat a bit while playing the Sims, go visit my dad out at my brother’s house construction site, come back and play some more Sims, play Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door when my dad’s around to watch, play more Sims when he’s not, and stay up till 2 or 3 a.m. It’s great going from the routine of worrying what assignment, project, or test was coming up next to this extremely relaxed routine. I’m sleeping great, too, because I love the water bed I have here even more than I enjoy my cushy mattress back in my apartment.

Here in the past couple of days, I’ve been playing the old DOS game Elfland, thanks to Dosbox on my Powerbook. Last night, I played through the shareware version of the first episode and was told at the end to purchase the full version in order to proceed. I knew we had a copy of the full version around here because back in the day we’d bought the thing on floppies. Dad, being the packrat he is, had backed up the floppies onto one of our computers, so I was able to get the full version installed easily. I spent about half an hour or more tonight beating the first episode again, only to have it end at the same spot as the shareware, this time telling me to play episode 2. Pff, had I known that, I’d have gone on to episode 2 to begin with, since it came with the full version. Oh well, it gave me extra practice kicking bird and spring butt:

I ended up making three A’s (databases, logic and theory of computing, and numerical methods) and two B’s (Calculus IV and statistics) this semester, which tickles me to death because it’s better than I was expecting at the beginning of the semester. It also gave me a 3.6 semester GPA, so I made the Dean’s list. :)