This IAP term is so much busier than I thought it would be. So, I'm taking this autonomous robotics class, and we've had assignments due every other day. Mostly practical assignments, like soldering, assembling, putting together small sections of the robot that will be identical for everyone. They take so long to finish up. I feel like I live in lab. I love it, and it's good for me too--- I am one of the least practical people that I know. My group probably regrets asking me to join them, though :(. I can learn theory, but have a much harder time applying it. But I do want to be an engineer desperately, I want to learn to be better at this. *sigh* I want so many things. I wonder exactly where my niche is, exactly what it is that I've been called to do. Will there ever be a match up between what I love and what I'm good at doing?


This weekend has been crazy too. Just weeks after getting my driver's lisence, I lost it at the Cheesecake Factory (and it was the first time I had been out since I've gotten here). A lady was sweet enough to call about it and I picked it up and got an excuse to go back to the mall. At the bookstore, I came across this ridiculous book called "Making out in Japanese". It had a variety of pickup lines, and equally as amusing, break up lines. Like one that went, "I don't love you anymore, so I'm chaning my phone number."


I revel in my skating classes. I feel much more secure on the ice now.


Yesterday, Vikki convinced me to go to ballroom dancing with her. I learned the Vienesse Waltz. It's a lot of fun, though dizzying. If you do it right, you're supposed to stare into your partner's face (I have a bad tendency to stare at my feet instead) and the whole world will be spinning around the both of you. I wonder if I'll ever get a chance to use it somewhere :) When did I acquire this love of dance? I used to hate it and the akward feeling I got when I was doing it.