Can't sleep
by Josh Staiger
It's Tuesday night and I don't feel like sleeping.
This past weekend was a riot for reasons that will be left as an exercise to the reader.
After I got finished telling half of IBM that I would kick their ass (at the same time nonetheless), the rest of the weekend was fairly tame.
I did quite a fair amount of reading. Finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I enjoyed it a great deal, probably even moreso than the first book. Given that these books flow quite nicelly, I think that they will make for good down time during the next semester. I'm looking forward to the third book in that regard. For now, though I think that I want something a little bit more challenging to sink my teeth into. I'm planning on rounding out the summer with Gulliver's Travels because, as I said before, I have been meaning to read that forever, then probably onto somethine more philosophical in nature.
In other areas of note, Sunday, I made a trip out to the North Carolina Museum of Art. It's not nearly as big, nor as prestigious as the Cleveland Museum of Art, but they still have a nice collection nonetheless. Could I get used to living in this area? Absolutely. I wish that I would have been able to make it out to the North Carolina Symphony sometime this summer, but I guess that's just something that I'll have to save for when I come back :)
Starting to feel like I'm really going to miss this place and all of the people down here. Last night was my last night of Wing Chun. It was cool talking to Sifu after the fact and looking back on the day that I first rolled into that place.
"To me learning Wing Chun is like dating a girl. You don't know what you get
until you are knee deep in the relationship."
--Sifu James Widmar
I know what I've got. Slightly tougher cookie dough now, huh? I'll be back. See you in six months, Sifu.
At the same time, though, I am looking back to getting back the the scene at the Cleve, and catching up with the crew there.