Obsessions, etc.

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This post contains high levels of geekiness and fanaticism. Read at your own risk.

It's been a crazy week! Mostly because of copious amounts of homework, essays, tests, etc. But a lot of cool stuff has been happening that has nothing to do with school!

So, here's a round up of some of my many and varied obsessions...

Of course, on Monday was yet another excellent episode of NBC's Heroes. I'm not a big TV-watcher in general, but this is my big exception. I accidentally let myself combine a penchant for a TV show with a budding interest in podcasting and blogging and RSS feeds!!! (Go Google Reader!) and the result was this die-hard, all-out, podcast-listening, blog-reading, message-board-posting, extra-features-and-ARG-junkie. Check out this screen-shot
from the free screensaver from the new "Mohinder's Apartment" game on the nbc website.

Then Tuesday, at about 5:15 am, (I know cause I was writing a paper) the long-awaited Zune software and firmware update was released! It's was so exciting! (except that it mutilated my metadata, but that's a different story) Hopefully, you've heard by now of Microsoft's answer to the ipod: Zune. I got one around the end of the last school year--late May. I love my mp3 player! And you've also just got to love what they've done with the new software and firmware. The new 2nd gen models were also released on Tuesday, but I don't have the money to be dishing out on a new player. Yet, MS is still so good to us to give all the 1st gen Zunes a software update too, so we get all the newness of the new model too. The new firware is so slick, much faster, and the new software includes podcast support, just like itunes, which is awesome, and makes things much easier. Also new is wireless sync, which might come in handy back home, where we actually have a wireless network, but it a pretty cool feature. Oh, and they're launching a community site, which, like wireless sharing, is a feature better suited for people with friends who own Zunes. Anyway, I'm loving my new software!

Finally, I've fallen into one of those periodic crochet/knit frenzies. These happen twice or thrice a year, and are usually associated with a new project, renewed interest in crochetville.org, or some other website, interest by others in my art form, deadlines, etc. In this case, I think it's start can be tracked to a perfectly ration desire to finish my socks. I finished the first one eons ago, and finally started the second at the begining of our road trip. Then it got set aside in the the beginging-of-the-school-year craziness, and only just recently got picked up again. I started bringing it with me to events, work, etc. around campus. That's what got me going in earnest. Then, because I foolishly let facebook know that my hobbies including knitting, it was kind enough to display an add for a clearance over at knitpicks.com. And because the weather here is inexplicably colder than it is in San Diego, everyone else has more scarfs than I do. Project ideas every time I step out the door, which is quite too much temptation to order some beautiful yarn and look up patterns online. You begin to see the downward spiral. I am now hopelessly lost in about 6 projects. But I'm loving it. It also gives me a unique reputation when I bring a doily or a hat into Honors class to work on durring the discussion. OK, that's about all I'm going to say on that subject!

Add on top of all these exciting happenings and obsissions, the fact that my birthday is on Monday, and Thanksgiving is on Thursday! (you know what that means! Off campus time, real food, ahh!) And we can't forget the good kind of excitement that comes from not having any homework due for over a week! I don't care what people think, I will skip down the hill to the JC and make doilies in a cushy chair while sipping peppermint cocoa and trying not to think about mysterious packages sitting on my desk. Life is so good!

God bless you guys, hope you're all as happy as me. Jesus loves you!
-Rebekah