If everything goes as planned, I will be moving back to my university campus in Madison, Wisconsin tomorrow night. I’m not very well prepared and haven’t really started packing anything yet, so I should probably get going on that.

In other news, I found out today that someone cited me as a reference when writing a Wikipedia article a few months ago. Does that count as an accomplishment?

Finally, I’m also going to copy and paste my "Quick Update" that I had on my home page all summer long into here for archiving purposes, seeing as the summer is now over and the information contained in the update is no longer relevant.

What have you been up to / Why aren’t you online as much anymore?

Contrary to most other past summers, I’ve been keeping myself extremely busy lately, and the time I have to chat and reply to messages online has become extremely limited (so limited that I decided to throw this up on my website rather than individually respond to emails saying why I’m busy).

• I am taking three three-credit courses over the summer. I have to spend six hours a day, two days a week, attending class on campus, and several hours per week out-of-class doing homework, studying, and attending my online class. (Classes are over as of August 10, 2011.)
• I am working at the family business at least four days a week every day (seven days a week) for anywhere between 3 to 5 hours a day.
• I went back to doing martial arts again. I instruct and train in a group class setting four times a week about 1.5 hours per day. (My last day for the summer was August 25, 2011; I will be returning during winter holidays.)
• I spend a huge chunk of about one day a week doing other miscellaneous family-related work.
• I am doing a handful of website-related projects for the Badger Herald, which is where I work while university is in session.
• I still blog daily, which means a lot of free time I spend online is spent posting content rather than instant messaging or thinking of creative responses to your emails.
• I read and finish a book on average about once every two or three days three to four days, both for my own enjoyment and so I have another thing to blog about.
• I am studying for a standardized exam that I will be taking in the near future.
• I sleep at least 8 hours a day, because I don’t believe in cutting back on sleep and harming your body to make your day feel longer.

This doesn’t mean I’m not going to reply to emails anymore, but it does mean that my responses will not be as elaborate as they might have been before, and it might take longer for you to receive a response.

My hours of availability for instant messaging will usually be between around 10 PM and 11 PM US Central time.