As of today, I am officially done with the second-to-last semester of undergraduate studies, and the last normal semester (seeing as my overall last semester is going to be this coming summer, during which I will be doing an internship for course credit).

I finished my last final exam earlier today for my criminology course, and now all I have to do is wait for all my exams to be graded and the scores compiled, calculated, and entered into my transcript.

As you can probably guess, this is also why I haven’t really been updating my website much lately or streaming at all – I’ve been studying for my last stretch of final exams.

As of right now, my plan is to spend tomorrow in Madison taking care of final move-out stuff (such as returning office keys to my various workplaces, packing up, and cleaning). My parents plan on coming to pick me up Friday early afternoon, and I’ll be headed back home for the weekend until Sunday, which is when we’ll be coming back for my graduation commencement ceremony.

I will also be taking this time to catch up on a lot of website maintenance stuff I’ve been falling behind on, as well as preparing to produce more content. Like usual, I’m not able to stream from home be­cause of the poor Internet connection, but I do have access to a better Internet connection at a different location during different parts of the day, so this doesn’t mean that I will never be streaming again in the future.

Stay tuned in the next few days as I get more information and am able to provide more updates.

I ordered some beef fried rice from a local Chinese food restaurant.

When I opened it up, I noticed that it didn’t really have beef in it, and it instead had this large chunks of white fleshy stuff.

If anything, I think this is more fish fried rice than it is beef fried rice.

Oh, the mysteries of Chinese food.

My Internet service provider, ResTech services, has a customer service department that’s open until midnight.

At 12:04 AM, four minutes after midnight, my Internet started beginning to fail.

FOUR MINUTES after the customer service department closes.

My Internet is randomly disconnecting and reconnecting, and when it does eventually reconnect, it’s extremely slow.

The worst part is that I have an exam coming up in a little over 12 hours, and I need to do some final preparations, which involve downloading documents from my course website.

I’ve been spending the past eight minutes or so trying to download a 1 MB PDF document, and it’s still not finished.

So I decided to come on my blog to write about this tragic moment as I panic, and procrastinate trying to find a solution to this Internet crisis that I will most likely not end up finding, and going to sleep.

It’s the middle of April right now.

And it’s snowing again.

wtf.

What better things to do than visit Ed’s goldfish during spring break, right?

Of course, I also visited Ed while I was at his house, but his goldfish seemed mighty worthy of a photo­graph and a placement on my website. Now they are on their paths to becoming Internet superstar sensations.

Earlier today, I had a guest lecture for my legal studies field work course that is highest on the scale of “could have gone disastrous.”

Our guest lecturer works closely with matters regarding the death penalty. The topic itself is great – there have been so much research done on the death penalty, there are so many opinions that exist about the death penalty, and there are so many personal stories one could have regarding working with people on death row, that the lecture can’t go wrong just from the topic itself.

Where it does go wrong, however, is the length of the presentation.

My lecture period is 75 minutes long. Today, we started about five minutes late due to random prep­a­ra­tion issues and technical difficulties, and spent about ten minutes going over some announce­ments, other class materials, and introducing the guest speaker.

It was finally time for the guest lecturer to begin her presentation.

Ten minutes later it was over. She asked if we had any questions.

Yes, she left 50 minutes at the end to answer our questions.

Now, it’s great that she cares so much about our input that she leaves five times as much time for questions than her presentation. But if she was faced with a silent class (which, fortunately for her, she wasn’t), that would’ve been pretty disastrous.