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I picked my spring classes last Monday. It’s getting to be that time where I’ll mainly be taking classes relating to my major, computer science. Next semester will be a test. Will I still like my major after going through three computer science classes at once? Hopefully. I also just found out that my major requires me to take a series of courses in some other discipline. I wish I had known about that earlier, but at least I’ll have some time to think about what else I would want to study.

I went to a volleyball game on Friday night with my friend Andrea and some other people from our floor. I had never been to a volleyball game, so I didn’t know what to expect. Andrea was practically incensed that I didn’t know the first thing about college volleyball (it’s played indoors). But still, I had a good time. We won the game too.

I haven’t actually gone to any football games this year. I went to two games last year, but I haven’t felt like it this year. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s that I wouldn’t really have anyone to go with, or that I would get a horrific sunburn, or that I would have to spend money, or that I would have to be practically coerced into pretending that a god rules over our country. It would be nice to see the Gators pull yet another win in what could be their third championship season, but the last home game was on Saturday.

I did want to go to the conference championship in Atlanta, but I couldn’t find anyone else willing to go (and give me a ride). If we win the conference championship, we’ll probably make it to the national championship game, which will be held in Miami. Since I live close to Miami, I’d really have no excuse not to go (except maybe that the game is on January 8 and spring classes start on January 6… but whatever!).

I like football, okay?

This year’s elections are over, but they’re not really over. In Minnesota, where Norm Coleman and Al Franken ran for the US Senate, the race was so close that it will probably depend on how the ambiguous ballots are counted. Why don’t people ask for a new ballot when they mess up? Why do they select a candidate and also write in “Lizard People”? Why does each campaign try to claim ballots that obviously weren’t cast for them?

An analysis from the BBC: American v. British teeth.

Here’s yet another Google Maps mashup, this one showing where certain album cover photos were taken.