Weirdos and updates

Lemme finish with the first word of my title.

First, some updates, since I've been gone so long:

1. I spent 11 hours yesterday working in Stata (and Word), writing a 22 page report on the connection between democracy and tourism for my Econometrics class. I ran about 50 or 60 regressions for that thing...
2. It's Fall again. I guess Mother Nature decided to switch things up and deliver winter in November and Fall in December. I'm just happy that it's almost warmish.
3. Heidi was awake for 22 hours straight yesterday. She's awesome. I didn't wake up quite as early as her, so I was only up for 20 hours or so... Oh the joys of college. Sorry, sibs, I know high school and middle school are "hard", but just wait.
4. Remember that class that I failed a test for a while ago? Just got my second midterm back for that class - with a 40.5 point improvement! My professor said since that was such a huge jump, if I keep that up for the final he'll drop the first midterm. Thank heavens! literally.
5. I cannot wait for Christmas.
6. I have the best wife ever.

Ok, and about the first word in that title up there:

I'm in the Wilk right now (the Wilkinson Center - the student building on BYU campus), upstairs in that lounge-ish area that overlooks the central area. I've read, slept, and studied here a dozen times - today I came up here to eat (there's a microwave around the corner) and catch up on my Google Reader. Soon after I sat down I realized that I've arrived in the middle of a non-mainstream board-game night. I first noticed because the group of students sitting next to me were debating the (recent) demise of the Pokemon franchise, then went on to debate the more recent seasons of the Power Rangers...

Need I say more? They're all playing board games now, and I can hear some fellow over my shoulder excitedly explaining the difference between sanity and stamina in the game he's teaching (apparently some monsters attack your mental faculties in addition to or in place of your physical self). Some kids over my other shoulder are playing Magic.

Oh, the diversity of BYU. How did I fail to notice you before?