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Once again...slacking I am.....I've been so busy. Incredibly busy. I've been working on school and working out and people all week. I've done something physical each day nearly and I feel great. The only day I didn't was Saturday. I've been getting up at 6 on MWF and a slight bit later on the Ts. The weekend is a bit lazier, although I played some basketball today.

I bought a PDA (a real cheap one) to try to organize my life a tad bit better. So far it's working well. It's just a matter of keeping track of all of my friggin' homework. It's gonna be rough. I'm still stoked about this semester though.

I went out to dinner with Julianne on Friday night. It was fun and the swing dancing that us and some others went to was awesome. I'm thinking about learning more about the swing dancing if I have time.

I watched a couple of Illini games this week. We definitely aren't as good as our team last year, but we're still fairly good. We played Indiana close despite getting beat down. If we just made free throws, we could have won it. As for the Northwestern game, that was trivial. It was fairly boring to watch as NW is quite bad.

Oh, and on Friday night, we boxed at Mike and Ty's apartment again. That place needs to get a name because I feel bad leaving the other folks' names out of the equation. I boxed Calvin and it was a blast.

On Saturday I went to an Illini Life leadership retreat thing. It was really encouraging and it is very exciting to know that we are really focusing on outreach and getting out to people in our dorms and around campus letting them know the Good News. It's very excitng and I feel refreshed by it...for now. I hope it continues.

I also got to talk with Dan Herron a bit and he really is an inspirational fellow. I'd like to get to know him more this semester.

As well on Saturday, I watched the Illinois-Northwestern game, but I really got to hang and talk with Justin about his investments. He really knows what the heck he is doing. I really enjoyed the information he told me and the way he presented it. He's going to be very good at what he does later in life.

Finally on Saturday we had SNG. I was asked to help with a thing before the actual talk. It was fun just being a part of the behind the scenes action which I will be more of this semester. After SNG we went and saw the movie, "End of the Spear." It was really cool. It is about missionaries that went to a tribe in the middle of nowhere and the story of the Grace that comes from God. It is a true story and just very inspirational. It's the second movie I saw in a week. RIDICULOUS. After the movie, we went to the apartment and played cards. Good fun it was.

This morning I've played basketball and now I've got homework to do this afternoon. BOO.... BUT!!!! There is football tonight. I'm most excited about that.

SOTW(eek) - 2 - This weekend is the conference championship weekend in the NFL and that means there are only 2 games this weekend. Soon the entire season shall be over...but it won't end without a bang!