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It's great to be back home!!! The traveling was pleasant, there were no delays and my luggage got here with no problems! Yeah, score one for the Puerto Rican ;)

I got to KC at about 8:30 last night and it wasn't too bad of a drive, except that I kept falling asleep and wrecked about 10 times. Yeah, the 6 hours of sleep along in 3 days finally caught up to me. I got to the hotel fine and then proceeded to order 2 large Papa John's pizzas because I hadn't eaten anything all day. The guy took an hour to bring the pizza and I am proud to say I almost ate 2 large pizzas by myself, lol. Yeah pretty crazy, along with the Fresh Prince all night marathon on Nick at Nite...beautiful stuff I tell you.

So my flights went well, even my brief stop in O'Hare airport. I assume they finished all the construction in the airport because it was looking quite spiffy. I slept through most of the flight from Chicago to PR, grabbed a blanket so I wouldn't freeze to death. The awesome part is getting to Puerto Rico, grabbing my luggage, coming out and getting picked up by my Mom and brother.

We headed off to Grandma's house to eat some good ol' rice and beans with some good beef and fried plantains. Yummy stuff! Grandma's still going strong and telling me she'll beat me up if I misbehave...gotta love Grandma (she's almost 80 now but she still packs quite a punch, lol!). Then Mom, Carlos, and I headed home and said hi to Dad and start unpacking and all that jazz. I called Mario because he told me that as soon as my feet touch the house's floor I had to call him. So I called and he came over so we could go and play pool somewhere. I called Coral too cause she wanted to come over and say hi but no one answered the phone. Oh well, Mario and I made it a great night! I played one good game, and one mediocre one but I lost both but it was all good. One of our friends from high school came by too so it was fun catching up and not worrying about school, tests, finals, grades and all things associated with Satan...I mean, education ;) (Although I feel your pain Annette)

It was a great first night back home. It's almost 1am so I'm going to shower (gotta love the smell of pool playing bars, lol), get some sleep because I have a date with the chiropractor tomorrow (yay!), and a wonderful afternoon date with the dentist :)

Thanks all of you guys for the upbeat messages and all that support while going through the craziness of finals. I'll see most of you in KC, and some I'll be seeing sooner than that :) I hope to post some pictures as the days go by. Oh and did I mention that a Saturday night is a terrible thing to waste, lol :) Yeah baby, party city :P

Done, done, and on to the next one :)

It's over folks!!! I got my paper done this morning at about 11am! 15 pages in total, a sorta coherent message throughout. I took my last final at 2 and got done with it in about 25 mins so it's all good baby! I'm just happy to be done with everything. Thank you for bearing with me through all this and for the support. The neocons really appreciated it ;)

Oh and Annette, I only napped for about 15-30 minutes while writing my paper. Actually I passed out while typing but I didn't head off to bed at least :P See you all in KC!

Slowly moving along...

I've discovered that re-writing/researching/proofreading/ a 14-17 paper is harder than I thought it would be. Actually it's not an impossible task, it is just harder to accomplish when I had all the other school stuff (something minor like final tests) to deal with, along with making sure I pack what I need for PR (and forget to pack what I don't need).

I think I've packed everything I needed: swim trunks (yeah baby!), shorts, polos, nice slacks for church (no ties in PR! woo hoo!), socks, underwear and the bear necessities. Then again, I have to make sure I take some extra winter clothes to leave in the car so that when I get back for the KC weekend I won't be freezing. I got the map to get to the hotel, passport, ticket confirmation, cd's, Fresh Prince DVD's...everything needed for a plane ride :)

I'm off now because I have 9 pages down and 5 more to go...although I have to say that I think I'll be putting more footnotes on the rest of the paper ;) Oh and I only fell asleep while typing for like 15 minutes so I think I'm good for the rest of the n....oh yeah, it's morning already, bleh!

4 down, 1 to go...and a research paper

What a rollercoaster I tell you, and the sad thing is that I still have one more marathon night of writing/researching/studying. I think I answered my Military History questions well enough to keep my grades solid in that class. Of course I cramped my study time by sleeping for another three hours this morning that killed how much I could study for Politics and Society final. Our prof had given us review sheets with a bunch of questions and I just basically looked for the answers to the questions and hoped that she would ask the same thing but in multiple choice. Yeah it's quite a gamble to take but I've never been one to study a lot if I've been to lecture every time since the Feast and I know what we've been covering.

The final wasn't too bad. I know I did a lot better than I did on the last test for that class but I don't think I did well enough to push my grade into an A. I think I needed to pull off a 96 or something close to perfection to get my grade up. Now I focus on the massive research paper that is about 1/5 done. And I have to take my last final tomorrow too...*feeling overwhelmed*

The good thing is that I'm doing laundry too, and I have to pack so that once I take my last final I can just drive off like a free man to KC. Yeah, I hadn't really done laundry since Feast (I did colors like 3 weeks ago though, and yeah I have a ton of clothes). I'm not one to bring nasty, dirty, gross clothes back home so that my Mom could do it. My brother did that last year and his suitcase was stinking pretty bad. I think my Mom and I gave him an earful about :P

Ok well I'm hoping that I really, really won't fall asleep while writing my paper. I can't afford sleeping the measly 3 hours I've been getting the past two mornings. Here's for another long, long night of schoolwork.

It's 2am do you know where your bed is?

Nice to see some of the encouragement guys, way to go! :) If it were any other semester than this one I think I would be doing awesome. It's the fact that I'm taking a third history class that basically killed what decent GPA I had up to this point.

Oh yeah so I skipped work for the second night in a row. I needed to write my military history test and I couldn't have possibly done it while coming back at 12ish in the morning. Yeah, I probably should have called or something but I sorta fell asleep on my chair for like an hour and I've been reading/marking/typing away ever since. Except for the occassional let me surf for a bit, it won't be too long I'll get right back on my paper. Yeah right, that never works out that way.

Anybody want to lend a hand in explaining if there is an American way of war? Although by reading the title of this blog I know where you guys are. And the torture continues...

2 down, 3 to go...oh and a research paper

Well I took care of my History of England take home final that was due today at noon, which was followed by the massacre/mass suicide/GPA killing, I mean, final exam from History of Mexico at noon as well. Yep, I think I got handled by the Mexico final but I think so did everybody else but I already know that I messed on one of the ID's and they were only worth 20 points each. No problem because the long essay was worth 150 points, along with the short essay being 50 points and 5 ID's worth 20 each. Yeah, I want to just bury myself right now....I knew I shouldn't have slept those 3 hours this morning. It completely cramped my study time. Blah!

On the good news I get to write up a take home for my military history class due at noon tomorrow, along with studying for my Politics and Society test that I'll take tomorrow at 4:30. And the great news about this is that I work tonight from 7-midnight which will cramp my study/writing time for both tests.

If that wasn't bad enough I have to find time to do laundry, pack, shower, and eat too. Oh and I have my 14-17 page research paper for my Mexican history class due Friday, but since I'm flying out Thursday that means I need to have it done by Wednesday. Oh and I have a final to take for International Security on Wednesday afternoon as well. Yes folks, it doesn't get any better than this. So why am I blogging instead of getting it done?

Part of the soundtrack of my life...

Chester Bennington - "Let Down"

And the tears fall like rain
Down my face again
Oh the words you wouldn't say
And the games you played
With my unfoolish heart
Oh I should have known this from the start

Oh the winter and spring
Going in hand in hand
Just like my love and pain
How the thought of you cuts deep within the vein
Oh this brand new skin stretched across scarred terrain

I don't want to be let down
I don't want to live my life again
Don't want to be led down the same old road
So I don't want to be let down
I don't want to live my lies again
Don't want to be led down the same old road

All those years down the drain
Love was not enough when you want everything
What I gave to you and now the end must start
Oh I should have listened to my heart

'Cause I don't want to be let down
I don't want to live my life again
Don't want to be led down the same old road
So I don't want to be let down
I don't want to live my lies again
Don't want to be led down the same old road

Oh...

I don't want to be let down
I don't want to live my life again
Don't want to be led down the same old road
So I don't want to be let down
I don't want to live my lies again
Don't want to be led down the same old road

I know, I know, I've been neglecting you guys

I'm basically crammed for time, stressed about school ending, finals, papers to write, avoiding baggy eyes, try to sleep in order to function, and here I am trying to resurrect the blog after neglecting it for so long. Shows where my priorites are huh?
Things have been pretty hectic the past couple of weeks. If you read Jon's blog then you'll know where I was during Thanksgiving week. It basically sums up how my year went: traveling, traveling, traveling. Now I'm trying to end the semester on a good note and make sure I pass my classes so I can graduate with no problems in May or August. I've got internship applications to do (already been accepted to one), job applications to fill out, and all that fun grown up stuff that I guess I should be getting used to.
It doesn't help that some computer geek creates something as addictive as facebook.com or music downloading programs. It's been quite the challenge to break the lazy habits of college (which actually began my senior year of high school). I have to make sure that I stay in the right path of life in spiritual terms. Too often I get bogged down and distracted by the everyday issues of life and ignore the importance of reading, praying, meditating. The thing is that I know better than that and yet I let the human nature do the things I disapprove of. I hate and abhore that part, because I feel like I'm taking God's grace for granted. I know God is all loving, forgiving, and merciful but I don't want to be all-protestantish and abuse that mercy and grace because I DO know better. Then again, I read Romans 7 over and over again and understand how strong that battle is, I just wish I could end up on the winning side close to most of the time.
Well this will have to do for now since I've got so much to do and I shouldn't be fooling around with this. Good news that by this time next week I'll be in KC chillin' at the hotel, enjoying the open bar (oh yeah!), toasting to the fact that the semester is over, and flying to PR to spend two weeks with family and friends! I know there's some stuff I was going to post some stuff about immigration, the Iraq war, and the other interesting stuff I study. It's forthcoming though and I'll post it and you guys can opiniate all you want.