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I’m leaving today to go to my college orientation. While it’s true that the orientation doesn’t start until Thursday, I also have relatives who would love to see me. I’m not sure what the chronology of events will be, but I’ll be visiting my aunt who lives in the Gainesville area, and I’ll also be visiting my grandparents in their new house in The Villages, a massive retirement community that, if my grandparents are to believed (and they are), would make us young pups jealous. For one thing, it’s a bunch of… well… villages. And they have all the amenities. And everyone drives around in golf carts?

I’m pretty nervous about going to my college orientation. Can you believe it? I guess that’s where I’m going to pick classes and everything. How fun. I absolutely love picking classes, let me tell you. Always have. It should be a real treasure. On a more serious note, I’ve e-mailed Adam, my future roommate, whom you’ll probably hear about more in the coming months. Apparently, he’s already been to the orientation (they have dozens of sessions to accommodate the large influx of students), and he seems to have had a good time. He says that Hume Hall, the dorm where we’ll be staying, is really nice (for a dorm, I assume). Anyway, while I’m gone, there will probably be no posts unless I can get to a computer and post something. I’ll be back in about a week.

Yesterday shooting for Beowulf 3 began. We got some things done, but a ton of rain came out of nowhere (as it tends to do on summer afternoons in South Florida) and cut us short. We’ll have to go back to Justin’s house (for we’ve kind of run out of filming locations in my house) another day. After that, Nick, Mark, and I went with Cristi to Flanigan’s for dinner. Then the four of us went with Kelli to the arcade at Dave & Buster’s. I didn’t have much money, so I didn’t play any of the games, but it was still cool. I texted Natasha while I was there, and we had a nice text-message conversation.

The brainiacs on the nerd patrol will enjoy reading about these unsolved problems in physics. I did.

Here’s an art exhibit called Running the Numbers. It’s a staggeringly detailed set of prints that illustrate huge numbers from recent statistics.

Have a look at several hundred pie charts. Each represents a country’s flag, with each colored portion of the graph corresponding to the amount of area of the flag that has that color. Make sense? I didn’t think so. Just click on each graph to see the corresponding flag, and you’ll see what I mean.