Free time? What free time?

Post-posting Note: I haven't updated in a long time, so I did two long (really long... whoops) posts to hopefully be up to date.

Actually working an 8 hour a day job/class schedule makes me realize why people complain so much about not having enough time! It really, truly sucks when you can't even get to places to do errands when you work past when the close. Fortunately that's only happened once or twice so far, but I keep hearing stories of it happening to other people in my classes, so I guess it's pretty common. One thing I've decided for sure is that my ideal is an 8 to 4 schedule instead of a 9 to 5. You get to work before the parking lots are full and you get home before the lots there are full. You also avoid a LOT of traffic, even if I got home late. Now this definitely hasn't been happening, but that's how I've managed to come to this conclusion. Once I get home I just want to sit and do nothing, but if I do that I'll fall asleep and lose the time I have, so I've been keeping busy, sort of.
Made some soup on Friday and just finished the last bowl of it today, so that's pretty amazing and it tasted really good, so that's a plus. I've been jumping from game to game and reading Harry Potter books and that's pretty much consumed my time. I should be reading class stuff but it's hard to motivate myself when I'm getting so much of the same information from three sources AND it's all covering stuff I've heard at least three or four times before, albeit in different levels of detail and with different emphases. Dwarf Fortress now and then, Metroid Prime 2 (not new, but I've played 1 and 3 and somehow missed 2 so I got it cheap and brand new online), and FINALLY Spore. It came out Sunday, but there's a little story to go along with that.
They were allowing you to 'predownload' it if you bought an electronic copy, so I did and I had the predownload on Friday or Saturday. Then I couldn't find when the predownload would unlock and let me install it. For some reason I had 12, 12:30, 1, and 1:30 in my head, so I just kept checking the file starting at 12 and at 1 it let me unlock it and install. Then I played until about midnight. It's definitely a really good game and it'll be known as a good game. It's also definitely not as good as the hype made it out to be, but with 2+ years of hype on a game made by the guy that made all of the "Sim-" games (including the 'Simcity's and the Sims 1 and 2) there's no way any game could actually live up to it. It's got an immense amount of replayability and pretty much anyone's playstyle's compatible with it. Also, I think it'd be a pretty good game for non-gamers, which is always cool. There was something else I wanted to say but I completely forgot, so it must not have been important.
On a different note, I was talking about the weather with Jacob last week and said that it would probably be another week or two before fall really started settling in (and the weather forcasts supported me at that point) but fall has apparently decided to spite me. Instead of going back up to the 80s like it said it was going to, it stayed in the low 70s and 60s. Luckily that's my favorite type of weather. So hah! Take that fall.
And now that I've rambled enough to hopefully be fairly up to date, I'm going to get to bed I think. I'm really tired and I have a 9am class tomorrow morning and PCR products waiting to be run on gels when I get to the lab. Oh and a book to buy.

AND Governor Granholm is apparently coming to MSU on Friday and is making a visit to some labs in our building because we're part of a Department of Energy biofuels initiative. Joy. I still don't know if I have to dress up a bit or if I just have to not look like a geek while obeying every safety rule. Oh well.