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In 2 days my final homework assignment of the semester will be turned in.

In 3 days I will be competing at Riverwood, a sprint distance triathlon.

In 6 days I will be taking my first of 4 exams.

In 9 days I will be taking the last of my 4 exams and my 4th year of college will be officially over.

In 11 days I will be competing with the big boys at White Lake, another sprint distance triathlon. This will be my first race in the more competitive North Carolina Triathlon Series. Previously all my races have been in the so called Triathlon Development Series which is geared more towards beginners. It will be my largest race yet, with over 900 people, plus it will be my first open water swim race. Instead of the typical 300 yard swim in a pool, it will be roughly 750 yards in a lake and will (hopefully) be wetsuit legal and I’ll be able to use my brand spankin’ new wetsuit at it.

In 14 days I will begin my drive to California. A day later I will meet Michael in Oklahoma City (he’s flying in from Bozeman and flying out of San Jose) and together we will continue on our voyage across the country.

In 27 days I will be starting my first day of work at Cisco in San Jose.

A lot of really exciting things coming up, just need to get these exams out of the way first.

Also, it appears commenting may or may not be broken. This is probably due to the fact that I’ve been bombarded with spam comments over the last 6 months. The spam filter I recently added a month or so ago has already collected around 200,000 spam comments total (insaneeeeeeeeeee). I don’t foresee myself having any reasonable amount of time to spend on this until I get to California so it’s likely it won’t be fixed for about a month. Oops.

In other not so great news I lost my cell phone so will be phone less for a bit until I get a new one.

In the never ending battle to acquire Japanese comprehension I have won another long-awaited, difficult victory. Previous to this battle I knew how to write and understand each of the 2000 standard use kanji, but just the meanings.  Now I know at least 1 word for each character so I am well on my way to knowing the readings for all of them. This will allow me to learn new words insanely quickly as they will now all be simply combinations of readings and kanji I already know, instead of brand new ones that are significantly harder to learn. I’m fairly confident this doesn’t make too much sense unless explained properly, so I’ll do that later when I have more time. Next step: start reading Japanese novels.

In a more whimsical note: How often are you disappointed with the Internet? It’s a fairly rare occurrence that I put something into Google and come up completely empty handed. The other day I needed to find a page with just really absurd French names like Jean-Pierre-Claude-Van-Damme-McSanderhosen but when I put “ridiculous French names” into Google I was surprised to find that within the roughly 35 billion websites online there appears to be nothing on the internet dedicated to this illustrious topic. Who will rise to the occasion and create this monumentally important website? Who?!?

err, anyways, things are great, definitely not having a problem staying busy. Looking forward to an amazing Summer!