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If you haven’t seen this yet (“Our Land,” from JibJab.com), I’d reccommend it:
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=this_land&preplay=1&ratingBar=off

Today, being election day, was a MSU holiday, meaning no classes. I really should have capitalized on the day, but that would have involved getting up at a reasonable hour. I didn’t wake up until about 11:40AM, and then I worked from 12:00-4:00. After work I went for a run (4mi@8mins each) and talked to Elise from Quad C for a while. After dinner I brewed some coffee and met up with Jill for a while, and after being kicked out in preference to her MTA101 reading, I wandered back to my Quad, which brings me to now.

Good heavens. This whole daylight savings time thing is throwing me off. It was dark by 6:00 tonight, which seems so strange to me. It seems like just last week there was light until at least 8:00. I guess it means that winter is on its way. It’s expected to snow tonight. Speaking of daylight, the sky was beautiful tonight as the sun set. In the west it was filled as far as the eye could see with scattered clouds creating a glorious gradient of orange to pink. Seeing the sky tonight made me realize that I really miss Wyoming sunsets (see below). I imagine that the sunsets here could be breathtaking as well, but I’ve never seen one, owing to the inability to see the western horizon from anywhere on campus. I think I’ll try to find some place that I can see the sunset from here, and I’m going to make a point of seeing a sunset when I go home for Turkey day.

Well, that’s all for now. I need to go read some chemistry and do some french homework, and then I’m going to finish watching The English Patient.

Ta ta,
-Mark