Since I’m running out of time before school starts back up, I suppose I had better get this out of the way.

This has quite probably been the best winter break I’ve ever had. I feel rested and refreshed, I think I accomplished something (and I wasn’t planning to, which enhances the effect), and the only downside was that I had to spend much more time with my parents and brothers than I usually like to during the week we were out of town.

My primary accomplishments over break:

• Staying up until circa 3:00 every morning and getting up circa 11:30 so as to thoroughly screw up my internal clock
• Watching the entire series Firefly over the course of a few days
• Finally writing the summary of the NJCL Fall Planning Meeting for the website (although I’m still waiting for Mr. O’Neil to set things up so it can go live)
• Taking several nifty photographs of stuff in Oregon and around here
• Almost finishing the requisite editing of said photographs (I have 18 left)
• Moving the site to a new host
• Writing a WordPress plug-in to copy posts to LiveJournal
• Having several people using the aforementioned plug-in, liking it, and even submitting some bug reports.
• Getting my site properly indexed by Google again, so the placeholder page I put up during the host transition isn’t cached by Google anymore
• Rising some in the ranks of Google due to people linking to my plug-in
• And, the big one, finishing all of my college apps, forgetting everything I learned last semester, and generally preparing myself for the last semester of high school

I’m unusually pleased about that last one, although forgetting everything may prove to be a little rough, especially in Chinese. It’s highly probable that I won’t remember how to say much more than 你好 and 再见. And as far as writing goes, I can never remember how to write 再 anyway.

For the record, I refuse to reflect on last year, make any New Year’s resolutions, predict what is to come in the new year, or do any of those sorts of things that people annoyingly like to do.

And so, at this point, I can think of nothing else to say. I will probably have more stories tomorrow once I get home from school.

Oh! There is one thing I’m excited about: we have a quiz bowl tournament in Cookeville on Saturday. Those are the good ones, and maybe we can win this time. Or at least kick Knoxville West’s or Rossview’s butt, because we haven’t beaten either of them in a good while, and I’d really like to. (I do have friends on both teams, so I mean that in the nicest way possible :))

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