My Head Is Exploding Edition

This week has seemed twice as long as a normal week. I think I've discovered the new 'metric' week or something. Last weekend was pretty great. We had our softball tournament on Saturday and made it to the championship game only to fall short in the end. Even though we lost, I felt pretty well about my play at least because in the two games I went 8 for 8 and played pretty well defensively. After not playing or practicing for over a year it took me a few games to get back into the swing (literally) of things and I'm sure that being able to play a full season next year will mean I'll have more fun. After the games we went back to Mom and Dad Snyder's place for a nice bbq- where I had one of the best steaks I've ever eaten in my life! We stayed over Saturday night because Dad and I were to play golf on Sunday morning. I had a pretty good round of golf actually and followed it up by watching some football. Monday arrived and back to school to go to two new classes. First up was Thinking About The USA (which is a requirement class for my American Studies major). While we were waiting for the class to start, the Prof played a selection of music on a small little CD player. There's nothing better than sitting in class and hearing The Band and The Allman Brothers!! I'm going to like this prof! After that class, came Historiography which discusses the theoretical analysis of historical research. This is as close to a post-graduate class as you can get in an undergraduate setting. I could tell looking around the room that most of the people in their were having their minds blown away- that sort of phased-out expression? The last new class of the week (Tuesday) was Conflict and Cooperation, a seminar on international foreign relations in the Cold War era. This class, though being a 3rd year class which generally have smaller enrolment (notice the Canadian spelling of enrolment!) had over 190 people in it...whew it was hot, stuffy, and crowded. So I had by now had the introduction to all my courses for the coming year. I think my head is exploding...but it feels nice :) I've spent nearly $800 on textbooks thus far and there's still a few I haven't purchased yet...whew...so my wallet is exploding also. This week I went back to the freezer on a part-time basis (Wednesday and Friday). I think I'll handle this schedule a great deal better than the last because I get a good night's sleep in my own bed and wake up like a normal person again. No new pictures this week, though hopefully I'll have some of the new and improved living room soon. Shell is busily working on painting it as I write this. There's also another edition of Politics 101 you can read by clicking HERE or in the right hand column. Until the next dispatch!