Happy Friday all!

It’s been an exciting two weeks for school and work and play.  First, school has been going spicily.  Not too much individual homework, but the group work is just beginning.  I have semester long projects for two major courses and we’ve got milestones due for both this coming Monday.  My roman literature paper is also due on Monday and will require me to read another play by Plautus and write a summary and analyze the themes and characters compared to other Plautus stories, as well as contemporaries’ stories.

Work has been going swimmingly as well.  Me and my coworkers are about ready to roll-out a few re-designed websites.  Namely the University of Iowa’s Department of Anthropology and the German Department are extremely close to delivery.  As for the Scruple business, we may be adding a realtor as a client by designing a realtor profile and property listing page.  Also, another potential customer has visions of a CMS-based website for visitors to be a part of a social network that disseminates topic-specific information.  I will explain more as the site gets closer to implementation.  Until then it is classified *stamp*.

Fun things have been happening as well.  This Thursday marked two friends’ birthdays and a little celebration at the Iowa City piano lounge.  The pianist was Sean and he was quite good.  We enjoyed wine and martinis and good music and you could sing or clap along too.  Sean felt that our clapping for the Violent Femmes’s “Blister on the Sun” was the best he’d ever heard.  He and his band will be playing at Third Base tonight and the WTS folk will be stopping by to hear the ensemble performance and get some cheap ‘n’ tasty burgers.  When I’m not listening to good music, there’s always the US Open and college and pro football on TV.  Since Roger Federer took down James Blake last night, I’m down to rooting for R-Fed (not to be confused with K-Fed).  Saturday will feature your IA Hawks taking on Syracuse in the Big Apple. GO HAWKS!  The football fun continues into Sunday with the true start of NFL ball and super competitive fantasy sports in multiple leagues.  The fall should be pretty packed, but two tons of fun as well.

Jim Gaffigan ~ “Hottttttt Pocketttttt!  Diahhreaaaaaa Pockettttttt!  Now they’ve got the Breakfast Hot Pocket, so you can have a Hot Pocket for breakfast and lunch and be dead by dinner.”

D-rock