Classes, Daniel Day-Lewis, Radiohead

Classes are going good. I'm taking two Eng. and two Poly Sci, so there's a lot of reading involved. I kind of forgot how much I read in class before Italy. In Rome homework was much lighter and less academic--mostly just lectures and then student to student dialogue. But I'm glad to be back in a more rigid environment; makes you more disciplined, I suppose.

Friday I went down to OSU campus and hung out with a couple buddies. We saw the movie There Will Be Blood, which was excellent, and if Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't win the Oscar for best actor I'm writing someone a letter, I don't quite know who, but someone who can listen to me vent. However, this will probably just end up being my mother over the phone, who will only pretend to be listening. Saturday was Mia's (my niece) two year-old birthday party in Pataskla. It was as fun as a two year-old's party can be, I guess. She talks pretty well for a two year-old, so my cousin and I taught her to hold her hand in the like she just shot a basketball and say, "Ballin!" We all get a kick out of it. Poor kid.

Then Sunday I bought the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows." It was pretty good upon first listen, sort of similar to "The Bends," but like all Radiohead albums you have to listen it a few times to really let it settle into your head. So, not that you necessarily care, but that will be getting heavy rotation in my car for the next couple weeks.

Well, ttyl.