The Weekend is Coming

I'm looking forward to the weekend. Mainly I look forward to the weekend because it gives me a chance to sleep a couple of hours later, and I don't have to make the 50 miles to work and 50 miles home commute. Besides the 2½ to 3 hours I reclaim each day not making the drive, I also save about $5.50 in tolls and $19.00 in gas. I'm paying $2.36/gallon for gasoline. This is getting a tad expensive, especially since I put about 600 miles a week on my car. I just hope the price of gas doesn't keep going up!

But this will be a working weekend. I'm in one of my last two classes for my Masters degree (at Keller GSM), and I have a quiz to study for and part of a term project to write. Along with the normal weekend chores of laundry, garbage and vacuuming/straightening up, this will be a full weekend. I will definitely take a couple of sanity breaks, however. I will most definitely watch "Saturday Night Live" as Cameron Diaz hosts and Green Day plays. Maybe I'll go to a movie, too. There are many good ones out right now, but I'm not going to list them all here.

I've got the pope's funeral on Tivo. I recorded it since it was on at 3:00 a.m. today. So many millions of people all in one place...including 2 millions Poles...it will be quite a sight to watch. There were about 4 million people altogether that went to Rome for the funeral, which doubled the normal 3.7 million population of Rome. Millions more prayed or paraded in their home countries. In Krakow, Poland 800,000 turned out for the televised funeral of "Jan Pawel II".

I am reading "The Speaker For The Dead" by Orson Scott Card (technically I'm listening to the unabridged audio book). This is the sequel to "Ender's Game" which I finished last week. I think I like this second book in the Ender Wiggin Saga even better than the first--and I loved the first book. This book delves more into the personality and feelings of Andrew Wiggin as an adult. I'm halfway through the book, and it looks like I'm committed to reading the next 6 in the series after this one.

Enjoy the weekend!