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So after updating on the private side, I felt it necessary to allow you all to indulge in a taste of my life....yeah right. Everything is relatively uneventful here. We had Slope Day on Friday so that means classes ended on Thursday. Basically, Slope Day is a party where everyone goes onto the slope (yes we're in New York so there are hills) and hangs out while various artists (this year Acceptance, Talib Kweli, and Ben Folds) play to drunken crowds. It was fine. Nothing special. We started by standing in that mob that happens right next to the stage and ended the day flat on our backs staring into the sunshine (eyes closed of course, but you know how the sun makes the back of your eyelids red etc.) and trying to stay awake as Ben Folds just kind of washed over us. Maybe the day would have been better if I had partaken in the drinking but I wasn't in the mood. Anyway, that was followed by the most wonderful cloudy/rainy 58 degree day ever. But its wonderfulness stemmed from being a nothing day. That night I decided to work on FORTRAN project. Now anyone in computer science is at this point saying wtf mate? but since I'm not sure any of you exist in my audience I'll explain further. FORTRAN was one of the first programming languages created, or successful ones at least. But as you can imagine, as computers have progressed far faster than anything has in the past, new languages were spit out at a similar rate. However, somehow, FORTRAN is useful to we meteorologists. Don't ask. I don't know why. I just know my project is done and it doesn't do everything it's supposed to. So that was Saturday. Sunday was church, finishing FORTRAN, and oddly enough, Titanic. I hadn't seen it since I saw it in the theatres and so I decided to see if it was as good as people said in, what, fourth grade? I will admit, I was impressed. That movie is so very intense in so many ways. But post, "I'll never let go, Jack" I went to bed. Woke up at 10:40 and sat here, yes I've been typing that long. Hopefully my pitiful life puts yours into perspective. Just hold on, we'll get to summer. You all much faster than I.