Spring 2013 Schedule and Other News

Monday/Wednesday/Friday:

• GEOG 302: Introduction to Sustainable Development
• "Introduction to Sustainable Development is a foundational course in understanding the policies and strategies that constitute 'smart' regional development in US metropolitan areas." So, basically, it's a class needed for my minor (Regional Development) that'll discuss ecologically-beneficial concepts with regards to developing metro areas.
• 10:00 a.m.--10:50 a.m.

• POL 413: Human Security. I don't even know what it's about... From 1:00 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.
• These two are going to be in Harvill Building.

 Tuesday/Thursday:

• SGPP 300A: Politics, Policy, and Governance: America and the World. From 3:30 to 4:45, in the Social Sciences Building (which I know pretty well).

I couldn't be bothered to write a Christmas blog post, so here it is... So, I got an electric razor (though, technically I already have one, the other razor isn't that good--really, most of the time, I just want to trim my beard when it gets too thick), 2013 calendar, University of Arizona key fob, The Amazing Spider-Man DVD (the newest one/the one with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone)... If you count my new phone as an early Christmas present, there's that... Really, that's about it. I mean, not that I'm complaining--I only specifically asked for the razor and DVD.

To be honest, even before I started this blog back in 2011, I was really hoping that there would be at least some activity going on here--a comment every once in a while, vaguely frequent readers... you know, stuff like that. While I'm not 100% sure about the latter, pretty much none of my posts have comments on them. If I went a month without them, that'd be one thing. I've had this for a couple of days over a year. Sure, on my part, I update infrequently--this is the only post for December that I've made, for example-- and there really isn't much that happens that could make this blog the most interesting, but the lack of feedback really hurts the incentive to write, especially my Rosethorn story. I'm still going to keep this, but I'm thinking of using my WordPress account that I needed for Struggle for the Presidency to post my story (and the ideas I have for it) and leave this as my personal blog--I'll edit in the link for that later on.

First Blog, and Merry Christmas

I sort of want to skip the awkward pleasantries about this being my first blog and get right to an actually decent subject. Maybe I'll do a more proper "First Blog" in a week, giving an overview about who I am and what to expect from this blog.

First off, Merry Christmas to any of my readers. I decided to jump the gun a bit here--I was originally planning on doing this somewhere around January 10 (more on why that's the case later), but I figured I might as well start now (Christmas Eve). As of right now, I'm in Maricopa, Arizona, where my Aunt Norma and Uncle Billy live--they were both originally from Texas. As far as Christmas goes, there isn't really much in the way of plans--if I were home in Tucson, I'd probably be at the Christmas Eve service at my church Grace to the Nations (that, or I might just attend the morning service). All I know for sure is that, for dinner, we're having burgers (not sure what we're having with it, though I'm having grilled onions and jalapeños on mine), and we might take a tour of the area looking at Christmas lights just did (say/think what you will--at least it's something). Christmas Day, I'm even more clueless. I doubt there'll be much presents due to the economy--not that I'm complaining much; these days I'm lucky if I can think of more than one thing I really want. Actually, we're celebrating Aunt Norma's birthday--we might open presents tonight (if we do, I'll post pictures of them in the next blog). On the 26th, I'm helping Billy over at the Food Bank--gathering food from the local stores, sorting them out, and the like.
The reason I mentioned January 10th was that, as I had originally hoped, I would be going with a couple of my friends from church (including Steve Peterson--someone I originally met back in Pima College--Spring 2010 semester) and some other from Minnesota on a Mission Trip to Hermosillo, Sonora--the capital of Sonora. The trip was cancelled not too long ago--same as the trip before--, but if we had gone, we would have been distributing clothes and feeding the locals, helping out at the local churches, evangelising, and a few other things. Part of what appealed to me about this trip, aside from getting to do at least some of that, was the fact that I've never been to Mexico--not Nogales, Rocky Point/Puerto Peñasco, or anything like that!--and I was really excited to be able to do that. And, before anyone asks, they've done this before. While there may be threats from Narcoterrorism, I have/had no fear about that (no one's died on any of these trips that I've heard of).

Well, that's all I can really think of for tonight that I can't just post in another blog.