Done

I finished all of my exams. They weren't as bad as I thought they were going to be, but they were still pretty rough. I kind of wonder why the only grades given are based upon the exams. It doesn't seem to have any purpose other than to be intentionally stressful. I don't feel like I learned the material any better than I would have if we had been given multiple exams, and I probably would have learned it better if we had. I was talking to Anna about it and she said that usually intelligence is shown by taking something complicated and making it simpler and easier to understand. My law exams were the opposite of that. All I am really saying is that I think I should be in charge of overhauling the entire legal education system in the United States.
But whatever.
So now I have almost a month to hang out and avoid diaper duty. We are going to the library today to pick up some books for the break. I have a list written of books I would like to read, but I left it on my laptop, and since now school is over and I have no real reason to turn it on, I am just going to have to try and remember what they were.
I remember one was that Hume Horan book about the state department. I am pretty sure it was called To the Lucky Few or something like that. But I already check and my libraries don't have it.
There is also a cool looking book that I read a review about called The Seven Spies Who Changed the World, but my libraries don't have that either.
I've already read all of the Tintin series (if you haven't yet, I absolutely recommend them. Apparently Herge put a whole lot of political undertones in the stories, but I never saw them. I just think Tintin is cool.)
I would like to read Kim by Rudyard Kipling. He has got some of the coolest stories. They are all very adventurous and frontierish. Kim is an Indian boy who works as a spy for the British. It is where Kim's game comes from too- you know, the game where you have a bunch of items on a table that you get to look at for a few minutes before it is covered up and you have to write down everything you remember? Actually, the Boy Scouts and Rudyard Kipling have TONS of connections, huh?
I started and I keep meanign to finish that Bushman joseph Smith biography. It is pretty good and now I have lots of time to read it. I think I'll put it on my list.
Maybe I will get a biography that looks cool. I often judge books by their covers.
If anyone has any really great book recommendations for me in the next few hours, I will look at the covers to see if I will read it. Thats pretty cool, right?

Also, I know I haven't kept ANY of my promises yet about prizes/poems/pictures/ice cream sandwiches/specialized blog posts. But I am a pretty honest guy. I will eventually get around to those.
It is like on my mission when I was standing by Syntagma Square (which is getting firebombed by the hipster revolutionaries) and a guy walked up to me and asked me if I thought keeping promises was important. I said yes, so he asked me if I would promise to read this book, Conversations with God, and then send him an email and let him know what I thought of it. I told him I would. Anna bought me the book to be funny two years ago, and I tried to read it, but it was just so boring. It was like the Little Prince (most boring book EVER) meets sophomore philosophy student. But It is still on our bookshelf and I still have the guys email address because I feel so guilty. Eventually I will read it and send him an email to get it off my conscience.
Speaking of running, I have this goal right now to get 100 miles of running in by February 28. There is a treadmill with a TV in the main office of our apartment complex about 40 feet from our front door, so that makes it easier. So far I have like 18... It might be harder than I originally planned for. If I make it, I'll buy myself a nice frozen pizza.
I wrote an english paper earlier this year for technical writing about frozen pizzas and I came up with some surprising results. Not really soooo surprising. Mostly, I decided that DiGiorno is good and California Pizza Kitchen Garlic Up-Chunk is awful. Tombstone was the best for the money and Tony's was third place overall. It sort of reminded me of elementary school pizza, and the nostalgia was nice. But DiGiorno Stuffed Crust Supreme was by FAR the best pizza. I think I'll get one if I can get my miles logged. It might mean I'll have to run over a lot of the break.