My friend Betsy is a senior vocal performance major at UH. She snagged one of the starring roles in one of the two operas being put on in the Moores Opera House at the end of January. She's tall, blond, blue-eyed, and beautiful, and has the most incredible voice I've ever heard. So, needless to say, I'm going to be in attendance at least one of the three nights the opera's playing (but I'm not sure which opera it is, so I'll have to check on that). Anybody want to go with me?

It seems that I don't have social commentary anymore... Whereas everyone else looks at the world and says, "Damn, we're going to Hell in a handbasket," I look at it and say, "I can live with that." I think I'm the type of person that shouldn't make up the majority of a democratic society. I tend to take what I'm told and not question it unless it just seems to be glaringly false. If things get worse a little bit at a time, I can handle it, probably no matter how bad it gets. The president could become a dictator, and it'd take me a while to even become indignant about it. I'm just a mellow guy; I can handle the little disappointments in life, and I can smile through them. I put up my blinders and forge ahead, and it's not until the wooly mammoth of my life has waded waist-deep into the tarpit that I stop to look around and say, "Wait, this isn't Fiji. Should'a' taken that left turn at Albequerque." But you know what? For the most part, I'm quite happy with life. Some people (e.g., Meredith Ware) can be truly happy and still complain ad nauseum (and I do mean that in the literal sense, but in the nicest way that the literal sense can be taken). I'm not like that. Complaining makes me unhappy. So, I live with the world. One of these days, I'm probably gonna snap and go postal, but in the mean time, I'm quite happy. Now if only Shelly would call me back...

I miss all my UH people. I just finished my first semester at Sam. It was easy, and I had some fun, but it just wasn't the same. Think you guys'd like a transfer student?

Party on the 5th of February! I know none of my UH people will probably make it, but I'd be thrilled to see any one of you there.

Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!