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Things are going great. I've began taking some great strides towards accomplishing my goals, and I think in a little while, I'll be more of a nerd than I ever was, but with a built body to boot.

Bess and I are doing quite well. She surprised me with a really nice shaving set, that promises to improve my shaving experience exponentially. I'm pretty excited, but I'm waiting to use it until I've finished reading the book she gave me to go with it. I'll have pictures of it later.

Theoretical foundations is proving to be more interesting than I originally thought. Our teacher's methods of presenting the course information threw me off for a little while, however with a little work and some reading of my course book, I've really began to understand the concepts concerning basic language construction and organization. It will be interesting to write my first language & interpreter by the end of this course.

Despite beginning quite slow, Logic circuits is beginning to pick up with more interesting material on how some of the more basic operations work. Though if I complete another truth table I am going to shoot myself.

Data structures too is going well, however we've become seriously bogged down on some of the concepts of creating a linked list. It would be nice to move on or at least move faster.

Georgia Southern classes aren't bad, however my biggest criticism is that my classes aren't very hard. They all present good information and the teachers aren't bad, but I feel like they are teaching these 3000 level courses at a level more like intro/sophomore levels.

I've learned a lot this past year of school. And yet it wasn't so much from the institution itself, but rather a direct result of simply being here.

When I graduated from high school I had these dreams of becoming great like some of my idols in the computer and scientific world. I dreamed of living up to their standards and accomplishing the types of things they had.

I wanted to discover something new and wonderful. My relativity, my calculus so to speak. Yet what I've come to realize this past year, is that I was not just looking up to some of these greats of math and science, but I was trying to be them. And in doing so, I haven't been living as I would choose to. The story goes like this.

Often, in a half serious/joking manner, I would muse "Where would we be if Newton or Hawking had grown up with World of Warcraft?" My thinking was that they would be so consumed with these games that they wouldn't have gone on to make the great discoveries of their day.

Yet I've realized that I've been trying to rationalize why I haven't made a great discovery or formed a great new way to accomplish a task. That I had been attempting to equivocate my my less than accomplished life, to theirs. Trying to write these distractions off as my undoing and the reason behind their great success.

This was incredibly arrogant of me.

Yet, knowing this, it begs the question, where does this leave me?
I'm not sure yet. I know a few areas I would like to address first, and I think I will play it by ear.

1. Weight. I have to face the fact that I'm overweight. I've began going to the gym, and I've started to cut back on eating habits.
2. Finances. I have issues with spending money that I shouldn't. Plan - create a real budget and stick to it
3. Knowledge. I have an understanding of many concepts, yet I always feel as if I just have either surface knowledge of subjects, or just below. This is going to require the most time. I want to begin relearning most of my math and English. While I can do both well, at times I don't understand certain concepts that others learned in ages past.
4. brush up on basic mental arithmetic. Simple to understand

And that's my current ideas and plans. Now to get to work on them... tomorrow, it's late now.