Well, I suppose that things have been better since the last time I posted.

Too much information/drama at once can cause a brain overload. I maxed out and it wasn't a good time.

Anyway...school's been, well, school. Nothing new to report.

Although I am graduating on June 11, 2005!

The School of Art Departmental Graduation is at 9:30am (ouch) and then Commencement is at 12pm, so I'll be on campus from about 9am-5pm. *Shudder*

But it should be good. I just hope it doesn't rain or get too hot. *Knock on wood*

M's aren't doing too badly. I went to last night's game (#2 for the season) and well...it was real disappointing. But my dad kept bringing us food and drinks from the Diamond Club (my mom, bro, Kairu, and myself were sitting section 116, row 15, seats 9-12 -- my aunt and uncle's accountant's tix -- while my aunt, uncle, sis, and dad sat in the Diamond Club). So that was a good thing, I guess. And it was Ichiro Bobblehead Night. Unfortunately, he went 0-4 on a night celebrating his record breaking 262 hits last year.

I suppose you can't always have your cake and eat it too. =P

Candace's 22nd birthday was last night and after the game I joined the group at The Baltic Room on Pine and we did a little dancing and drinking. Candace got drunk and it was fantabulous!! It was what I wanted for her birthday, seeing as how she didn't even get drunk on her 21st. Actually, I don't think that she's ever been drunk before...tipsy, yes...but drunk...no.

So it was great. I haven't been dancing in awhile and it was wonderful to hang out with the HNA/O'Dea gang -- even if it was only for a couple hours.

Sonics play Sacramento tonight in the first of their playoff games. GO SONICS! My aunt and uncle will be there in their regular seats...so jealous.

Hopefully the M's will be able to pull some offense out of their bats and come back swinging. Defensively we've done a pretty good job, but man. The bats have been pretty cold lately. C'mon Don Baylor! Let's get crackin'!

But it's still early in the season. I'm still hoping for .500 and so far so good.

Oh, we got a new Pope since the last time I posted. Pope Benedict XVI. I'm not so sure how I feel about the whole involuntary stints as Nazi youth and the German army, but hey. I would have liked a more liberal Pope, but he's kinda the transition guy and follows Pope John Paul II's teachings, so it makes sense. It would have been amazing to see a Latin American or African Pope though. There's always the next one. Maybe by that time we'll be ready for a non-white Pontiff. Hopefully His Holiness is good. He's already 78...he won't be Pope for too long, right? ;)

Talked to Terry about going to Central/South America for some more volunteering and I think that we've decided on Honduras and Guatemala in September. Hopefully she can get it all organized with Healing the Children. I would be a translator for the surgical teams going down (gotta brush up on that Spanish of mine) and I think that it'd be fantabulous. We might even go to the Galapagos afterwards with Grandma. That would be freakin' sweet.

While in Honduras/Guatemala I would look into some long(er) term options for the following year (2006). Working with Ana Maria in areas around Antigua such as Quetzaltenango or Alotenango, orphanages, Catholic missions...lotsa options.

My sister had her tonsils out and is doing well. I think she's trying to make up for the day she spent not really talking. She's been jabbering nonstop and it's ridiculous. Her voice is higher than it used to be, so it's just cracking me up. And she won the award for largest tonsils taken out that day out of 7 children. Good job, Jackie.

I just wish that we had more than one day of comparative silence when Jackie had her tonsils out and Josh had his wisdom teeth out...if only...

And that's about all I can think of to report right now, I'm pretty sure this post is freakin' long, so I'll stop here.