Adam saw me updating the old blog and said, "Hey Jordon, tell the world that I said 'Hi.'" Everyone: my roommate, Adam, says hi.

Joey, from down the hall, wondered what he meant. Adam explained about the blog. We're watching the BCS National Championship Game in my room, and in the third quarter, I'm losing my attention span.

Joey said, "Tell them I said, 'Surrender or die.'"

"It's not blogworthy," said suitemate Cameron.

Well, you know what that means: I'm back to school, and I'm still alive.

I got back to school on Saturday, but I just dropped off my stuff in the room and then went to my aunt's house. While I was here briefly, I saw that my door didn't have my and my roommate's names on it -- instead, it had the name of the guy across the hall. The new RA got our rooms mixed up when she was putting the names on the doors, apparently. I wrote a note to my roommate on the whiteboard: "Don't worry Adam, this is still our room."

So I spent the night at my aunt's with my family. On Sunday morning we took a hike... literally! Even though our dog, Speck, lives up to his name, he was able to keep up with the big dogs. We were mainly in O'Leno State Park, but we also spent a few moments in River Rise Preserve State Park because they apparently border each other. Overall, the hike was about five miles or something like that. It took us about two hours, it seems. I enjoyed it.

In the afternoon, it was back to the dorm for reals. I got settled in and everything, and my roommate had already settled back in.

I was a little nervous for today, the first day of the spring semester, because I would have to face not two or three but four new classes in one long day. Yeah, that's the way my schedule worked out, but it was the best I could do, and I don't want to mess with it. My classes don't really seem that bad, but it's hard to tell because all the professors try to scare their new students. It's the same everywhere. Here's the breakdown.

• Physics - They tried to scare us with facts: statistics about how last semester's class did.
• Differential Equations - The professor's funny, but I hope the subject matter isn't that bad. Calculus 3 isn't necessary to understand the course, and I took it, so I should be good if only I can remember the Calc 2 material.
• Programming - Not sure about this one. It turns out that we'll be using Java. This'll be a good chance for me to learn programming the right way, though.
• Biology - This one shouldn't be that bad. I'll have my sister to study with. It sounds like it'll be boring at first with the details about cells and stuff, but the rest, like evolution, should be cool.

Anyway, my Tuesdays are much better because I have no classes. Tomorrow I plan to sell my chemistry book (the only one I've been able to get rid of) and try to hawk my Social Geography course pack after the first meeting of that class ends.

It's too early to say how this semester is going to be. Before my first class, I thought that the hardest part would just be carving out a routine. Now I realize that that isn't so bad; you just have to let things fall into place. (Routines sure do make life easy, though; there's not much thinking involved.) The hardest part, at least at the beginning, will be studying for my classes to make sure I don't fall behind. At least, I think so.

Check out some peculiar streets around the world.

It's now an election year, and that means it's time to go over some flag pin etiquette.

Here's an old list of officially recommended telephone exchange names (as in PEnnsylvania 6-5000). In an earlier time, my cell phone number might have started with SYcamore 8. Also, I wouldn't have had a cell phone.