For a while there, I was in transit, but now I'm home. Home for the holidays. I got home on Saturday, and I've been settling back in. We got a Christmas tree the other day after going to about four places looking for the perfect one. This one is so tall that it almost touches the ceiling. We haven't put the star or angel on top yet. Soon enough...

Yesterday I went to the mall with Nick, Mike, and Mike's girlfriend Ashley. They've been together for over a year now. Down the hall in my dorm there's a girl named Ashley who has a boyfriend named Michael. FULL CIRCLE??

Anyway, I haven't really thought about Christmas shopping that much. I did send a gift to Natasha (a.k.a. Jordon's Canadian Friend), though. But now that there are two Poor College Students™ in the family, we've decided it's going to be a rather giftless Christmas. Which is fine. I've been telling them for years that I really don't want that much, and only now is it okay. As for the rest of my friends, I have gifts that I'm going to make. If I told you what they were, it would spoil the surprise. Although I already kind of blew it for Nick because he was asking me what he should buy me for Christmas, and I wasn't really sure.

Last night was the Pompano Beach boat parade. There weren't very many boats this year, probably because it was cold and windy. It was still nice, though. My family has been going to the boat parade every year since time immemorial. It's nice to do all these things that I thought I'd never do again because I'd be going to college.

And this evening, my final grades for the semester were posted. I got A's in all of my classes -- I actually got an A in America in the Fifties, the class I had to write a long paper for -- except that I got a "GRADE NOT REPORTED" in Calculus III. The prof is probably still grading the exams. We only took them on Thursday, and it takes him a while just to grade the regular tests. I hope I don't have to go through some sort of rigamarole because my teacher didn't submit the grades on time. I really want to know how I did, and I can't be held in suspense for too long. I'll get all stressed out. Calc III counts the most toward my GPA.

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