I'm back in Portland now,

I'm back in Portland now, and its COLD!! Colder then it was in Minnesota. Or atleast it feels colder because there you spend a maximum of 2.5 minutes outside in any given day, the time it takes you to go to and from your car. Here, anytime I go anywhere outside of my apartment, I am out exposed to the elements.

And right now the elements are going crazy.

Not only is it cold, but it is snowing, and they are predicting a big ice storm later on. Because of that, I decided that it would be prudent to stay home from school today, due to the fact that school is located on a large, steep hill that is only accessible via a one single-laned twisty road that is prone to becoming covered in ice. JUST KIDDING! The real reason I didn't go to school today is because I just wanted to hang out with Mike in our awesome apartment! We slept in, and snuggled, and mike made me eggs and tea, and we sat and ate breakfast at a table littered with all of the presents he got me. Way better than a morning in the lecture hall.

Some of the awesome presents mike got me (in order of opening): a cover for my iBook (so mike wont scratch it up when he carts it around), a cd of our friend Jona jamming to the music of J.S. Bach with an old guy and a young guy (???), an awesome artsy proactive 2004 calendar (supporting local artists), a power drill and drill bet set (yeaaaah!! I don't know exactly what i'm going to drill, but it will be awesome. I kept telling mike that i wanted to own power tools. I'm the son that his dad always wanted), and last but not least.... Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit!!! I smell a TAC event. We snuck a peak at some of the questions, and I knew almost all the answers. Very nerdy? No, this is nerdy:

I was reading Return of the King on the plane, and I came to the part where Theoden lies dying under his horse and Eowyn chops off the head of the fell beast and kills the king of the Nazgul after emersing the audience in classical feminist philosophy - you know, that part? Well, I realized that in the book, that whole battle takes place on March 15th - my birthday!! And I got really excited about it. Now THAT's nerdy.
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