It's quite literally almost halfway through November (20 minutes until midnight local time, November 14, as I type this), and next Friday Thanksgiving break starts. I haven't been home since I left to move in here, though I have been visited by my family (about a month ago) and some friends (last weekend).

For some reason or another, I decided to do No-Shave November, and I'm not entirely sure what was possessing me. Personally, I think I look like a vagrant (the phrase "a furry hobo" came to mind the other day), but I'm not sure if I should just be obstinate/persevere and actually follow through with it, or if I should shave at some point before I go home next week. I think to some extent I'm worried about what people back home would think, but at the same time I don't think it's entirely unusual for guys to not shave as much once they come to college.

I did decide to not do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), since I figured I should get more accustomed to college first, and I could work on my ideas independently without having the deadline of November 30th, or at least that's the excuse I'm telling myself.

I've procrastinated all of today- after going to bed about 3, I slept until after noon, went to 'lunch' in the cafeteria, where I got a waffle (something went wrong in the cooking, I think the waffle iron maybe should have been sprayed or something) and a bowl of Captain Crunch cereal, then I ate with my roommate and some friends. Then I came back up to the room and since I've gotten back, which was around 1, I've spent the day on Wikipedia and Facebook, essentially. I have a political science paper I should write today (or tomorrow, I suppose).

Another thing: Recently I was remembering the startup music that played when some version of Windows 9x booted up, so I looked at YouTube and decided I had been thinking of the Windows 98 startup music. The Windows 95 music I wasn't quite as familiar with, but it sounded absolutely retro. I'm thinking I remembered the Windows 98 music so much better because it was on computers at school (I seem to remember spending a lot of time on computers in 5th grade) and, of course, at home. Fifth grade would have been about when Windows XP came out, I think. I do remember the computer that I used to share with my siblings had Windows ME on it until we got rid of it and we were supposed to share a computer with Mom that ran Windows XP.

I also remember back in the day about 3 or 4 years ago when I would read about Windows 7 or whatever they called it then, and Wikipedia's article on it saying that Microsoft wanted a new version of Windows to come out in 2009, which seemed preposterous and ridiculously far-off. Of course, now it is the future... 2009 does seem ridiculously futuristic, looking at the numbers.
I remember back in elementary school (3rd grade, I think) seeing a timeline that some 4th grader had made that had 2004 as the future, which I always thought would be more like the Jetsons (In fairness, I think the Jetsons is supposed to take place sometime in the 2060s... On the other hand, no date is given, if I remember correctly, but I think it makes sense that if "The Jetsons" was made in the 1960s to set it in the 2060s).

On the other hand, to anyone from before a certain point or so what we can do now might seem like the future- it seems like in the news every so often news that they've found another extrasolar planet, or some new genetic discovery, or some other scientific discovery. Of course, I think we're all more climate-conscious now, but I'm sure gas and crude oil setting new price records probably helped with that.

TL;DR - Thanksgiving break next week, rethinking No-Shave November, not doing NaNoWriMo, wasted Saturday, remembering Windows startup music, reminiscing, rambling about the future