Hasta la vista, Donny =)

Am pretty pleased with myself for being able to finish reading a book (albeit only a brief, 200-pager) in one sitting at the library just now, for recitation on Friday. (Of course according to the schedule i was supposed to finish reading this like three weeks ago hehe...) Trying to get as much work done for the weeks ahead done, because i've a history conference/workshop thingy to attend (it's compulsory, for if not i sure wouldn't go for something that burns practically all my daylight hours on Saturday) this upcoming weekend and will be in Charleston, SC for the following weekend (more on that another time) and then in Charlotte almost immediately after that for Thanksgiving, so in the spirit of xian(1) ku(3) hou(4) tian(2) i'm attempting to be more diligent than i usually am (which is pretty easy to do =p)...

There's been a lot of talk over here regarding the midterm congressional elections which have more or less just wrapped up. I find it highly interesting that here they put in so much effort in mobilizing people to vote (and boy are there a lot of things to vote for - apart from the usual stuff like US House & State Senate/House, there's also County Commissioners, a Sheriff, various court judges etc...) and yet the turnout is at less than 50%, while in S'pore voting is compulsory, but for many people there's nothing to vote for...

Anyways, perhaps in part due to the aforementioned fact, that there's far more action here than there'll ever be back home, i've been watching the races pretty closely. It was such that one guy forgot i was not from here and asked me if i voted (which reminds me, Dan, did YOU vote? haha =p)... But anyways, i shall leave my political views out of this, though the post title might give a clue as to what they are...

It's beginning to hit me as to how my time here is really winding down, in just over five weeks from now the semester here will end, and soon after that i'll be off, back to S'pore again - there's still so much to do here, and so much that i'll miss too... But also much to look forward to back in S'pore i guess...