c... can't... stay... awak...e....... and i'm only 7 minues into office hours at work. how am i going to last the day out? too much late night autocad. i WILL go to bed early tonight. i keep saying it, but tonight's the night. maybe...

i have momentous news! instead of buying something at the Barney's Warehouse Sale today, i paid off one of my student loans! granted, it was the smallest one, but it's gone forever. i got my federal tax return back yesterday and i saw that i only had about $500 left on the loan, so i thought, why not? thanks mom and dad for your help.

over the weekend, new york city got it's biggest snow storm ever: 27" of snow! did i get out of work? church? did the schools close? NO. everything still happened because the subways never stop. No snow days for the kids here, but i guess they make up for it with all their religious holidays. church on sunday was pretty empty, but a lot of people came despite the fact that the blizzard was still happening until the afternoon. it was kinda funny to see times square in a blizzard and to walk in the street to avoid the snow.

i wish i hadn't missed the strangest part of the storm. My friends at church said that there were thunder and lightning during the blizzard. No one had ever seen that before, including my pastor from canada.