Well, there’s been a slight pause in posts, to say the least, but, well, I’ve been rather busy. So I guess I’ll start off where I left off, about three weeks ago. School’s stepped up a bit, espe­cially gov­ern­ment, which I love, and the case analy­sis and it’s just won­der­ful to absorb all this law. Def­i­nitely given my cho­sen field of study a push in a right direc­tion. Speak­ing of study­ing, I finally started my col­lege appli­ca­tion process (well, seri­ously started, I was tin­ker­ing around before), and have cho­sen three canidtes, my pri­mary choice is the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, fol­lowed by West­ern Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity, and finally Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­sity, with a Law, Soci­eties, and Jus­tice major. Last week­end I retook the SAT in Shel­ton, and it was a won­der­ful day: rainy, windy, and exces­sively cold in the test facil­ity. Per­haps I’ll improve on my mis­er­able 1890 scored on the test I took in March 2005. Results due the 21^st of November.

Today was inter­est­ing as well, and I’ll have to explain it. First off, I have my senior por­traits at 11:00AM in Shel­ton, but Nina decided she wanted to go, but also choose to be on the phone 20 min­utes before we leave, but dur­ing the con­ver­sa­tion, she got angry and as a result, Dad didn’t go and Nina was forced to go (mainly because for birth­day shop­ping in Olympia), even though she changed her mind. So we get there, and I wasn’t really keen to get these pic­tures, I mean, why spend all this money when we could get a per­fectly nice “L” series lens instead? But the peo­ple who did it were really good, even forced one or two gen­uine smiles out of me (quite an achieve­ment). So we go off to Olympia, of course my mom had to say some­thing about the fact that I met Alia here, Miss her? Much. Once there, I’m need­ing caf­feine, and of course, there’s a Star­bucks nearby (did you know that they’re named after the first mate in Moby Dick?), but they got my order incor­rect, I wanted a “Pep­per­mint Mocha Frap­puc­cino” but I got a “Pep­per­mint Mocha” instead, which was a sur­prise; it turned out I needed it, since Nina then pro­ceeded to spend two hours in Amer­i­can Eagle shop­ping, so I just glanced at some stuff, fig­ured out what I wanted next time I felt like clothes shop­ping (which is rare), and sat in the leather arm­chairs con­sum­ing mass quan­ti­ties of caf­feine, it wasn’t such a bad way to spend 120 min­utes, actu­ally, I could think of worse punishments.

I haven’t been doing that much cam­era stuff recently, just a smat­ter­ing here and there when I get the oppor­tu­nity, and the same with upload­ing pic­tures and such, when I get around to them I will. This four day week­end is nice, I need to catch up on my sleep (I might not have got­ten enough in recent weeks), and included with the 4.5 day break later in the month for thanks­giv­ing, I might be slightly less irri­ta­ble­ness some­day, that might be nice for a change. So that’s all I can remem­ber to say right now, so I’ll stop my inces­sant ram­bling. 8^)