Classes are over, finals are coming. It took me most of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to finish my Linguistics take-home final, and tomorrow I have a grueling four-hour Humanities final followed by the Russian exam. Fortunately, since classes got out last Wednesday, I’ve had plenty of time to study. And study some more. And some more.

I also need to move my blog to over to Typo (which I was introduced to at Seattle Mind Camp) as soon as I figure out how to get the conversion script to work. Speaking of Typo, I didn’t win the Typo Theme Contest; nor, surprisingly, did any of the highly original themes I was sure would beat me! The winning themes seem rather generic and commercial to me… At any rate, finding myself without an iPod for entertainment on my 15-hour flight to New Zealand (or my morning runs), I headed off the to Reed Apple Store bright and early this morning to buy one. Yes, I am finally the proud owner of an iPod: a sexy little black Nano, protectively wrapped in a white silicon case (which makes it look vaguely like a sheep), and filled with delicious music. Its name is Jayne (”the ‘pod they call… Jayne!”).

In addition to Firefly, I was recently introduced to another wonderful television series: Band of Brothers. Although I’m not a fan of war movies, when my dormies put this on, I couldn’t stop watching. The characters just pulled me into their world. And man, when they discover the camp… well, the whole series is emotionally intense. Hearing the stories of the actual WWII veterans on which the characters are based makes it so very real. My high school’s American Studies class could definitely have benefited by showing an episode or two of Band of Brothers.

On a lighter note, I have a new project for after-finals celebrations: customized My Little Ponies. Some people actually buy these things, re-paint and re-hair them, and create something completely new. They sell for a bit of cash, too. My concept? An Achilleus pony, of course! See, I knew I could tie this back to class somehow. :)