{"id":417,"date":"2008-08-02T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=417"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:23:29","slug":"previously-on-the-finite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Previously, on The Finite<\/u>…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back. Hopefully, most of you had a great time with summer and Harry Potter’s birthday and all.<\/p>\n

I know last season’s finale was a little “Sopranos” and I’m sorry about that. But my focus groups wanted an upbeat ending to the season and prom provided just that. Graduation was sort of a downer and very little after that deserved a full blog post. When July rolled around, I didn’t want to lead you on with a rogue post in the middle of the dry season even though I attended Purdue’s orientation (“Day on Campus”) at the end of June. <\/p>\n

Then there was that physics book photo of me I never addressed and also the list of 54 instances that I noted “liberal tangents” in Venegoni’s class (which I apparently lost while archiving). I also later realized that I hadn’t spoken of the fates of Weed or Patches. <\/p>\n

I promise, no more cliffhangers. No more twist endings. No more secret love triangles. On my estranged dog’s grave.<\/p>\n

So what have I pissed this summer away on? Community college. One semester of Biology at Harper. Lecture and lab, Monday-Thursday. (I was forced to drive myself everyday instead of biking since the five miles between my house and Harper contains a racetrack, discontinuous sidewalks and an expressway. So I had to sit through construction-induced gridlock, facing the harsh onslaught of the sun, necessarily shirtless and victim to the stares and catcalls of various construction workers because my hyper-miling environmentalist guilt disallows turning on the AC.)<\/p>\n

Aside from that, there was movies (Kung Fu Panda, Dark Knight, etc) and reading (all five books of the Hitchhiker’s Trilogy) and packing (crap).<\/p>\n

I did however have one memorable entry in my journal.<\/p>\n

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