Random Update

Again I have a giant pause between posts. At this point, I have settled into living in Minneapolis (and am actually living in Minneapolis, as opposed to just saying I am). I'm dancing a lot lately, which is awesome. Weekly classes, regular events, bal practice, solo charleston routines, competitions, private lessons, etc. Finally did a J&J here (at the last 2nd Sunday), and it went a lot better than I expected it to. Tons to work on, still.
I had an interview last month for the Japan program, and am waiting to hear what will happen with that. I keep saying that I'm going to apply to law school for the fall after, but have yet to motivate myself enough to actually study for the LSAT. I really need to get on top of that. I have a fair bit of work to get the scores I need for the school I want. Even if that would doom me to at least 3 more Minnesota winters.
Still trying to fix up the house so that I don't feel like I'm housesitting for a weekend. Starting to get there. I need to rearrange where things are in the kitchen, and move a heck of a lot of stuff out of the office. Having people over has helped. Need to do more of that too (but also need to be organized in order for that to happen, which I've only been good at for work scheduling).

A couple of observations & ideas that have been imparted to me recently (and that I've been thinking about):
Guys tend to have a higher general level of messiness, but girls that don't clean let things go to a farther extreme (from general messiness to filth).
If you have too few people at a party, they will congregate in whatever area forces them to stand within about a foot and a half of each other. This is why people tend to hang out in the kitchen.
Relationship books tend to polarize men and women, and end up leaving out a large amount of people from those who they could be advising. The people they leave out tend (in my mind) to be the people who least need the advice that they are giving (i.e. they are the people who have already managed to absorb a fair amount of the behaviors that are being associated with the opposite gender).
The more interested you are, the more interesting you are. This seems to be a corollary point to the idea that things good things happen to people who believe in them, or that a confident person will notice thing to increase their confidence (i.e. you shape your reality through your approach to life).
The people who are place in the highest percentile of happiness polls tend to be incredibly social. I can't decide whether I think that there is a causative relationship, or if it is coincidental.
There is a time of year when there is a general craving for life (either in animal or mineral form). For me, it is not worth trying to buy actual plants to save money. I WILL kill them.

Enough random babbling. Time to go to bed.