Website: You might have notice some changes, as I completed my new Home Page today. I hope that you all like the new look. (I just love my little weather addition!) After having the basically the same look since my site went online, it was time for a major change. My entire website is in the process of being redone, but that's going to take a while yet.

Medical: Next Monday, Jan 24th, I have to go back to the medical center for yet another operation (sigh). This is just minor surgery, and involves two procedures, which are both follow ups from two of the surgeries that I had last year. The whole thing is expected to take about four hours, and I'll be awake the entire time (oh joy). I'm supposed to be able to go home the same day. Hopefully this my last surgery for a long while, as this will be my fifth operation in the last 20 months. I really would like to be done with all this so that I can get on with my life.

Website: Made a few minor changes to my home page. I also just put my newly redone Avatar Page online.

Medical: My latest surgery (Jan 24th) went very well. There were a few minor complications (which were overcome) and it was more involved and much more painful than I had anticipated, so it was a very long 4 hours (I had to remain awake the entire time). So I'm currently recovering and aren't allowed to do any real physical activity for at least another week or so. I'm still pretty sore, so it's not like I feel like doing that much just yet. But I am finally able to sleep reasonably well, after a really bad first week. I go back to have the rest of my bandages and all my stitches removed (ouch!) on this coming Wednesday (some of my bandages were removed last Saturday.)

Website: I just put my newly redone Morrowind Journal Index Page online.  The rest of my Journal will eventually be redone in this format.

Medical: My latest surgery was Jan 24th, and involved a couple of procedures, and lasted  4 hours (I had to remain awake the entire time).   I'm still currently recovering and my surgeon won't allowed to do any real physical activity for another couple of weeks.  I was hoping to be more recovered by now, but I'm still pretty sore.  But I am finally able to sleep again, after having the rest of my bandages and all my stitches removed just over a week ago.  I can now at least get out some and take short walks.  And I've got approval to try some short periods of xc skiing, as soon as I'm feeling up to it.  

Website: The first 9 chapters of my Morrowind Journal have been redone to match this format. Also my MW Intro Page and my MW Journal Index Page have both been redone.

Medical: My healing from my latest surgery (Jan 24) is going very well. Last Tuesday (2/22) I was able to xc ski again for the first time. I started out taking it really easy, but felt so good that I ended up doing 10K. Two days later I skied for 4 hours and did 18K. It's so good to be active again!

Medical: Earlier this month I had a follow up for my Jan. operation.  One of my procedures appears to have been completely successful, but the other one didn't seem to improve this much.  Oh well.   My surgeon wants to examine me again in three months.  Hopefully it's just too early to tell yet.

College: It been a long process, but I just found out today that I have been accepted in the program that I applied to!   Less than three years ago it didn't seem likely that I would ever be going to college, so this is pretty amazing.  I'm going to be taking a course there this summer, just to get adjusted to the school.  And then I'll be a full time student starting this fall.  I'm both excited and a bit scared.

Website: I know . . . I'm way behind in updating things again. But I have a really good excuse this time . . . honest. The thing is that I now have a new computer (a really cool laptop ... which I love). So now I'm running Win XP, and my website software would only work for Win98 ! Sooo I had to upgrade to the new version. The next problem is that the upgrade was sort of expensive ... and with college expenses, the ridiculous price of gas, and buying a new computer (on credit), and concert tickets, my funds were really, really low (as in the minus digits). So I had to wait until I could actually afford this software. Pretty good excuse, huh? Anyhoo . . . my new website software arrived in yesterday's mail and I stayed up late to install it and to FTP all my files from the server to my laptop. Now I'm trying to figure out how to run this program . . . but hey, I got this far. I will be doing a bunch of updating really soon . . . promise.

College: I completed my summer class in June. This was my very first college course, so I was a bit nervous. Plus I had to prove to myself (and to others) that I was actually ready for college. Well, I worked really hard, but I enjoyed my class, even though it was a bit intense (a full semester course in just 5 weeks!). And I did just fine . . . in fact, I ended up with the highest grade average in the class! I attended my freshmen Fall Orientation a couple of weeks ago, and registered for all my classes. Unfortunately it looks like I'll have to commute for at least my 1st semester, due to very limited dorm space. This is a real bummer, since my college is 90 miles away, which means that I'll be driving at least 3 hours every day that I have to be there. Fortunately I was able to get my classes arranged so that I only have to go three days a week (I only need to take four classes, since I took my fifth class this summer). Anyhoo, I'm sure that it will all work out. Right now I'm going to enjoy the rest of my summer. :)
 

Website: I still need to update more of the site. I have updated more of my MW Journal to the newer format.

College:  Woohoo! . . . I have a dorm room! My "very slight chance" at getting into a dorm room actually worked out. What happened was that the international block (rooms reserved for international students) didn't need two female spaces. And I was given one of those spots. I just found out last Friday, and I move in next Monday afternoon (Sept 5th), so I've been going a bit nuts trying to get all my stuff together, and shopping for stuff that I needed, but didn't have. And rescheduling (or relocating) all my appointments for the next month or so. Today, with the help of my advisor, I added a 5th class. I just figured that I should take a full course load, now that I won't have to make the three hour drive every day. I also had to find a way to finance my room and board. On Wednesday I have to drive down to my college for another meeting with the head of Disability Services, pick up the rest of my textbooks, and straighten out my finances. 

Website: Still too busy to keep up with things.

College:  As you can tell by my lack of updates lately, college is keeping me very busy. I have a pretty full course load, which, along with just adjusting to being in college, and living on campus, was nearly too much for the first week or so. Being a full time college student can really be a bit overwhelming at first! By the start of my second week I had adjusted pretty well. Then I went and complicated things by trying out for volleyball. And I made the team! So my already busy life was even busier.  But I felt like I needed some real physical activity, and the team needed a 6th player. Unfortunately I didn’t realize that playing volleyball would be so painful! We had four 3-hour practices during my first week. I've never really played volleyball before, so after 12 hours of practice my arms were covered with bruises. And my ankles swelled up, until my skinny ankles became fat. I was sooo sore! Our fall season just ended last Saturday. We had a really good team (I was by far the worse player), and finished out the season with 7 wins, out of 9 games. And came in 2nd in Saturday’s tournament.

College:  Currently home for a 4 day Thanksgiving break.  Only four more weeks left in this semester, so things are getting a bit crazy - as we all gear up for finals. I recently became a member of the Student Senate, and am on the Student Concerns Committee.  I just can't seem to do anything without getting totally involved.

Medical: I have to have some minor eye surgery tomorrow (just getting zapped with a laser), but I have been doing a lot of work on this site (it's just not obvious on this page)

Website: I needed more space and finally found some.  I just moved all my Morrowind pages and images there, and have been trying to get the rest of my old pages updated to this format. (Now updated  through chapter 26, Avatar page, and MW-Tips page.)   But the biggest news is that Oblivion was finally released last month - to very mixed reviews from Morrowind fans.  I have some major issues with the game, but I'm hoping that these are fixable.  Anyhoo I decided to start an Oblivion Journal, as a sequel to my Morrowind Journal.  The Intro page went online a couple of days ago, and I just posted Chapter one today.

College: My last final was on Thursday, so now I'm back home for the summer.  Now I just need to catch up on my sleep for a bout a week. 

Medical: My eye surgery went very well and looks to have been successful - I should know more by the end of the month, when I have my next checkup.

Website: I have started  working on my Oblivion Journal again - updated the Intro page and added a couple of new pages on tips, tweaks, and MODs.  I finally have the game running well on my computer, and am about to start the game over again from the beginning - this time with some MODs that will hopefully fix most of the issues that I have with the released version.

College: I made it through my first year!  Now I'm back home until fall.  This summer I'm working on all the Freshmen Orientations at my college - giving tours of the campus to all the new paralegal and criminal justice majors (part of my duties as the Secretary of the Student Senate).

Kayaking: (I really need to update that page!)  I went out for an evening paddle a couple of days ago and got to watch a bald eagle catch a large fish out on the lake, then I follow him and saw where he landed in a big pine tree, where he ate his dinner.  My friend and I floated right below him for about 20 minutes - what an awesome sight!

Medical: Currently everything is fine.  My eye exam last month had promising results - my next eye exam isn't until fall.

Website: I posted Chapter 6 of my Oblivion Journal this morning and just updated my MODs Page as well.  A few weeks ago I started the game over again from the beginning - this time with a bunch of mods that have fixed most of the issues that I had with the released version of Oblivion.  My journal is both a fantasy story and sort of a role-playing guide to the game.

College: Things are going well, although I'm having trouble keeping up with my class assignments.  Taking 5 courses, that all require a lot of reading and writing is perhaps more than I should have taken on (due to my language issues).  The good news is that I'm officially a member of the sailing team!  I'm the most inexperienced member (I never even sailed until this semester), but I'm slowly getting better.

Website: I just updated my Kayak Page (even though it is still mid winter).

College: I moved back into my dorm on Jan. 22, so I'm now in the second week of my spring semester.

Website: Goodness, it's been a month since I've updated this site. But I did finally do a major update of most of my pages today (pretty much everything but my Morrowind Journal).

College/Medical: I saw my surgeon on the 1st, and he told me that I'm healing very well, but also that I'm going to have to remain on crutches until at least the end of April, and I won't be able to sail competitively until next fall. I'm getting really tired of my crutches, but they do enable me to get around my campus - even if everything seems 4 times as far now. Crutching around with 30 pounds of books in my pack is a bit of a workout, but it's just not the same as working out with my sailing team or competing. There's only another month till classes end this semester, which means that I'm constantly overloaded with all my school work. And then I get to face finals for a week.

Medical: I really hate to sound like I'm complaining, but the truth is that I've had a rather difficult summer - in fact, the only real traveling I've done (other than my trip home from college ) has been my repeated drives down to my medical center over the summer. I was really hoping to have a more enjoyable summer, but it just didn't work out this year. I have been able to do a fair amount of kayaking, but doing so has been quite painful, as I'm still not totally recovered from my fractured femur.  I'm also being treated for a frozen shoulder (from being on crutches for so long and from the 30 pounds of textbooks that I hauled around on my back). And then I had three biopsies for skin cancer in July - which all came back positive (major bummer). The good news is that I have Basil Cell cancer, which is very treatable, through minor surgery. I had surgery for two areas last week and had my final surgery today. So now I just have to heal (and accept the fact that I now have 3 more scars to add to my collection.

Websites: Ok so my plans to add a bunch of stuff here (while I was on winter break) didn't exactly happen.  But I haven't have nearly as much free time as I was hoping.  Basically my life has become crazy busy and I had to do so much writing in all of my classes, that I get headaches from trying to force my brain to do what is too difficult. So, when I do actually have some free time, the last thing I want to do is spend more time writing.  I know, it's a pretty lame excuse.  And I do  really want to keep my websites updated.

Medical: Anyhoo things are going pretty well overall.  I'm like 90% healed from my injury now.  I had to have a minor operation just before Thanksgiving, to have the 3 long metal pins removed - which set me back a bit.  But now I'm doing much better and am running 5K a couple of times a week, at well under 30 minutes . . . which isn't bad.

College: Ok, so even though it is still very much winter here . . . our team has actually begun sailing again (we returned to the bay on February 28th) - which is not nearly as fun as when it is warm out (the air and the water are currently not much above freezing).  And I'm in my toughest semester ever (thank goodness this is my last one!) - as a double major, I have to do two thesis - plus major research papers in two of my other classes, plus I have a 5th class that is also all reading and writing.  (Which reminds me, I have tow papers due tomorrow, and my first class is at 8 am, so I have to hit the books really soon.)

Websites: I'm doing yet another rewrite of my Oblivion Journal  - in my completely redesigned website (eventually I'll redo my entire site in my new format). My problem is that never have enough time to get very far, and when I do have some free time, I end up installing a bunch of new mods, and then restart my game.  Then my game doesn't play out the same at all, so I have to start rewriting everything yet again.  Ok, so here I am whining about not having enough free time, and get what I do?  I get involved in another RPG, and add a whole new section to my website.  By "involvement" so far has only been in ordering Fallout3, and in getting my website ready for it.  My Fallout3 Journal is now online, even though I haven't started playing the game yet.  Mostly this is just my way of getting this journal organized for any future mods that I'll be adding.  But I have started collecting mods already, and my Future Fallout Mods list is now online (with download links). 

Websites: Over the past month or so I've updated my website to match this new format.  The following sections are now completed: New Archives, My Avatar, and my Girl Gamer page.

My Fallout3 Journal has now expanded to cover nine pages; most of which are devoted to mods.  I now have all 30 plus of the mods that I'm using posted in my recommended Fallout 3 mods list, along with my new mod load order guide, and a Fallout 3 tips page.  So there's now a lot of information available on this site.

College: Spring break ended yesterday, so I was back in my classes today.  The final push is on (I graduate exactly 2 months from today), so we're all busier than ever.  The library was full today and it was a bit of a challenge to be able to find a free computer there to work on.

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