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Hey remember when I posted here? I don't want this blog to die, not just yet, so I'm going to try and revive it.

In rough reverse chronological order...

I finally "moved in" to my new HP laptop. That "cancel or allow" parody commercial of Vista is frighteningly true. I had to turn that security stuff off. Unbelievably annoying.

I was rejected by Elon, but I still managed to get away from Delaware by getting an place in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. It's a cozy 590 square feet studio in a new apartment complex that's only about a mile from Widener, despite a state border in between. Plus I'm in apartment 311. How cool is that.

I saw Transformers in Mooresville and The Simpsons movie in W-S on the same day. That was a great day in movie history.

I'm really glad I took last weekend to pay respect to Skip by going to his viewing and watching the funeral mass in Wait Chapel. The latter was especially moving, and I left filled with sadness at Skip's passing but also a great amount of Wake Forest pride. Father Jude, Coach Dino, Chris Paul, President O. Hatch and Ron Wellman spoke; all demonstrated the strength of the Wake Forest family and how Skip was an irreplaceable part of it. For me, I'll remember Skip as the man who rallied the students around the team and revolutionized the persona of Wake Forest basketball.

London was amazing, except for the last week when I had to deal with exams, a bad case of home sick blues, and learning about Skip. Three weeks before the program started I did a number of tours around the UK and France. I went to Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, a River Thames cruise, Stratford-upon-Avon, Edinburgh, Whales, Paris for a day, Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, the white cliffs of Dover, and others I can't even remember.

Once the program started, I visited the London Eye, Imperial War Museum, the Churchill War Cabinets, the crosswalk at Abbey Road, Wimbledon for some tennis, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, a comedy club and dance club somewhere outside of London (I never did know where - that was a weird night), the Natural History Museum, and saw Wicked and Spam-a-lot. I also finally had a shrimp pizza.

Our dorm was overrun by French teenagers. They seemed to move in packs of 20 - clogging the hallways and entrances. They were also all chain smokers. God, they were annoying.

Biggest negative - the food. Unbelievably expensive, and anything with beef tasted like crap. Eating nothing but cold sandwiches and fried food gets old after a while.

That's it for now. I'll try and post more, promise.