I was looking at my list of posts here, because I accidentally posted the last one twice, and it seems that I start at least 75% of my posts with the word "so." So, (hehe), I am going to make a better effort to avoid that.

Last night (man this is hard to not say so!) I started to watch the Sox game in a lounge. But around the third inning (dont worry I saw the grand slam and everything) I got very tired. I went down to my room figuring I'd take a break from the game, read some articles, and then watch the rest. But...I fell asleep at 10:15. And didn't wake up until my alarm went off at 7:30. As I told Paul, I realized then that I don't believe in times before 8:00, so I lay awake in bed until eight and then got up and went to the gym (and ran 2.5 miles! And I wasn't dying!! See, all I needed was for someone to tell me that i had to do it. And then I did it. Me telling me I have to do it does nothing. Me then just convinces myself that 1 mile is really long and I should really take a break, because doesn't it feel like my leg is kinda sore? Or that I really am breathing too hard and this can't possibly be healthy...)

I had a debate in Africa today, which was supposed to last 25 minutes but lasted an hour, and last night the four of us went out for drinks with the professor so that we could set up some arguments. But it turned out today that both sides kinda sucked it up. Oh well. At least we tried. (At one point I started to say something and then realized I forgot what I was going to say, so instead I just said "shit!" really loudly in the middle of my sentence and everyone started laughing.)

They are having this conference on Sudan today from 2-5, and I have class from about 2:30-4, so even though my next class starts at 5, it actually never does, so I think I might go to the last hour (hopefully I'll remember cause a lot of times I really mean well but then I forget).

Also, at the request of someone in the brazilian studies dept, I advertised in the weekly email a portuguese language club (you know, like a Kaffe-Klatsch (sp?)), and I was expecting maybe a few people would be interested...ummm, i got 22 people. So that's going to be intenser than I thought; I really thought this wouldn't require much commitment on my part. Maybe I can just get the ball rolling though and then it will be self-sustaining.

OK, for REAL time for lunch cause my belly is hungry and it's less than half-hour till class.

Catch ya'alls later.