Back in the middle of last semester, when I was both going to school full time and working full time, I was pretty close to a complete mental breakdown, and Bekki could detect this deterioration, so she went and bought me some gifts: gifts that she labeled as the "relaxation package" which contained a cinnabun, wine, and a set of relaxation things. Candle, body oil and a scented spray intended for use on a pillow. I guess I just wanted to take a second to talk about those items.

My week of awesome vacation of supreme awesomeness is coming to a close, today being my last day off, having to go back to work for a long shift tomorrow (12pm to 10pm).

It's difficult to wake up and feel energetic when it comes time to do the few things that I set out to do each day when it's so god damn dark out. When I was cleaning up the consoles I had to turn the lights on because it was so dark that I couldn't quite see what I was doing... and it was only noon! NOON!

"When we look at modern man we have to face the facts that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters."