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It’s just like you to contest, wear it like a label on your breast, don’t you see what this takes of me? – Dashboard Confessional

I can’t wait to get outta here.  I’m getting that “caged animal” feeling and it’s not even February!  College life has run it’s course for me.  I’m nearing the finish line and I’m able to look back and regret nothing.  I never got drunk, never slept around, never failed a class, never missed a deadline.  I was responsible, busy, productive, and I learned quite a bit… (not $50,000 worth, but that’s another entry…)

Now I’m ready to move on.  I look at my fellow dorm residents and think, “What is wrong with you??!?!  IT’S 2:30AM ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT!!!  I HAVE TO GET UP IN 5 HOURS FOR CLASS!!  WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING IN THE HALLWAY OUTSIDE MY DOOR?!??!”  Then I want to bash their drunken heads together and leave them passed out with their heads in the toilets…. But enough with my homicidal tendencies…

Seriously… I feel like I’m babysitting half of the time here.  A bunch of idiotic slack-jawed yokels trash our bathroom all the time… People urinate on the floors, rip down signs, leave all kinds of stuff in the sinks…  It’s disgusting.  I want out.  I want a life where I have a home, with my wife, by ourselves.  No sharing bathrooms and living spaces with strangers…. I hope living in an apartment won’t be this bad…. I can’t imagine it will be… All we’ll share is a stairway and some noise….

Aside from that complaining, things are good here.  I’m keeping busy as usual.  My class schedule will clear up a ton in the coming months though.  I finish my curling class in March and I have no more Friday classes starting the third week of February.  Yes… I mentioned curling.  It’s freakin sweet.  I get to slide around on ice and sweep heavy rocks as they smash into other ones…. then I get to yell, “HARD!!! HARD!!!”  It’s fun…. I like to pretend I’m Canadian, but it doesn’t pass with the three Canadians that are in the class…. one of which is the instructor….   I just say, “eh?” a lot and I try not to use the letter “o” much….  I pretend I’m Rick Moranis in Strange Brew… that seems to fool most people… “Oh I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it….”

In other news, I’m fighting the virus war on a virtual and physical level…  I’ve had a sore throat for the past two days, but I’m not sick… yet.  I’ve also been fighting an onslaught of viruses at work.  We’re being slammed by the Novarg (MyDoom) virus, along with three others that have hit every now and then (Klez, Dumaru, and Beagle).  Thankfully our anti-virus software is the best on the market, and it covers all our server applications, clients, and emails… But there is still the possibility of infection by someone opening an email attachment if it wasn’t cleaned by the anti-virus software… I have yet to see this happen (nothing has gotten by the anti-virus), but there are some loopholes which I’m frantically running around and closing to make sure this doesn’t happen…. ::sigh:: The exciting life of a Network Administrator!  I like it though, it’s a challenge and it’s never repetitive!

Ok, off I go… to prepare for another day of pretending I’m Canadian.  I might as well be… it’s frickin freezing here…. It’s been in the negative degrees for the past couple weeks!!!  ::looks left, then right, then straight ahead… Walks off into the distance singing the Canadian National Anthem::  “Oh Canada…. Our home and Native land….”