I’ve added a few new essays I’ve written thus far this year to the writings section of my web site.

If you get a chance, check them out…especially the one entitled Nature as Art.

In other news, I’ve got only three weeks (well now almost two and a half) left before finals week, which is immediately followed by spring break. It’s a real early spring break, but with as hard as I’ve been working, I’m ready for it even now. Stan and I are thinking about maybe flying out to California for a couple of days, just to do something different, but we haven’t made any decisions regarding that yet.

Saturday morning I woke up at the bright and early hour of 6 am, which seemed especially early considering I went to bed after 2 am. After getting all dressed up, I headed over to the high school from which I graduated to ride on a bus with a bunch of Future Business Leaders of America members so that I could judge at the Northern Area (IL) competition. The day turned out to be exciting. Although I was unable to judge the web sites like I had wanted to, I still got to take a look at them and discuss them briefly with Drew, the guy who judged the site I entered last year. Instead of judging web site, I worked with a guy named Sean, who teaches a Powerpoint class, to judge Powerpoint presentations for the Multimedia Presentation event. We spent lots of time on each one, providing as much feedback as possible in hopes of helping the teams to do as well as possible in future competitions.

Well I’m getting tired and I’ve got to shower and maybe do some reading yet before bed.