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Well, I've come to an interesting juncture in my life. It is Jan. 1, 2009 and I will not be doing any sort of hourly labor for a while. Last night was my last night at the Topeka Capital-Journal, which is exciting for me in a way, although I will miss some aspects of it. I won't particularly miss doing the Scoreboard page, which was by and large about as fun as picking a scab (although I was getting rather good at it). I will miss the people. A lot of the older guys were pretty funny and generally had a lot of good experience. I learned a lot there, but I know that it's time to move on and try this new place and see what I can make of myself. The one thing I like about TMI, besides the fact I'm getting paid better, is that I feel like it gives me an opportunity to move up a lot quicker and to eventually be a big shot type of person within the publication. Not that I'm power hungry... quite the opposite. But I do like the idea of being successful and having a say in how things are run, because I think that gives us a good shot to do some things that haven't been done before and that are really revolutionary. I've got ideas that I'd love to see become a reality. Of course, with the economy how it is, it's hard to say how permanent things will be. But I have high hopes.

The exciting this about this whole thing is that, as of right now, I have nowhere that I HAVE to be. I'm still working, because I am writing and may design this month and I will be working at the Review again when the semester starts up, but I've got so much more time on my hands and I can make plans and see my friends and not be tied down by work. Hopefully, this will give me more time to exercise and hunt and study and do the things that I need to do. AND I might just get to read a book for the first time since the summer!

It really is a good thing that I've got this extra time right now, because my sleeping pattern is downright ridiculous. I have been staying up until 6 a.m. and, for whatever reason, I allow myself to sleep for 10 hours. Maybe it's because I know when school starts I'll never be able to get away with it... but I want to enjoy as much of the winter break as I can, and it would help to be awake for as much of it as possible. I think my plans for today are to stay awake as long as I can and try to reset my biological clock so that I'm asleep when the rest of the world is asleep. So that's my plan for today.