Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

So this is my first winter in the mountains, and the climate decided to give me a nice warm welcome with some flurries and lots of wind. According to some students, people have been knocked down by the wind, so it seems like the best strategy is to stay indoors and to avoid wind tunnels. Let's see how that works out.
Yesterday, I cooked dinner for one of my neighbors because she turned 22 today. There was gnocchi (Italian dumplings) with roma tomatoes, kalimata olives, and smoked mozzarella. For dessert, I made Italian cheesecake, which is cheesecake with ricotta cheese instead of cream cheese. Both of those things came out wonderfully, so it was a good night. The interesting part was that I woke up around 2:30AM with everything on. I didn't even know I went to sleep. The good part of waking up then was that I got to seize the chance of moving my car from the parking meters into a good spot in front of my building. If you live or have seen Blacksburg, you know how horrendous parking is. For the Loyola folks, parking at the FAC was better than this situation.
Tomorrow's going to be an awesome day because it's the last day of classes before Thanksgiving break. I'm going to NY for the break, but I'm not going to be doing much. I want to spend the first couple of days not thinking about grad school, but that will probably fail. And then I'll get myself ready for an exam that I have when I come back. It's the 3rd of 3 long-winded exams. I've averaged 2 hours and 37 minutes on the first two exams, so I'm expecting the third one to be a long one as well. The good news is that I feel like I'm grasping more and more of the material as time passes, and it showed when I did better on the second exam than the first. Ok, I'm done with geek talk.
Saturday's going to be interesting because there's a football game because I've noticed that a lot of people are leaving town tomorrow or Saturday morning. Will the stadium be filled with 60,000+ screaming fans? I hope so. The only game that matters now is next Saturday at Virginia (grrrrrr). At least my mom will enjoy Saturday's game because she wants to annoy her neighbor, who's a big University of Miami fan.
Since the break's coming very soon, here's some goals that would be nice to accomplish. And if I forget, I can come back to this post to check. I'll take any suggestions for adding to the list.

• A moderate amount of sleep. This one should be easily attainable.
• Finish Final Fantasy XII.
• Play Guitar Hero on the surround sound.
• Annoy my father. Again, this should be easily attainable.
• Read at least one page of Wicked, with the hopes of finishing the book. This one may be tough.
• Annoy my stepmother. Another easy task.
• See one of my roommates from Loyola, Kevin. Not only would I get to see him and hang out, but I can get a pair of sneakers I left there over the summer.
• Bust open my saxophone. It's been collecting dust since I'm not playing at Virginia Tech.
• Find a way to watch the VT/UVA game if it's not on national TV.
• Exercise. I don't know if this will be easy or hard yet.
• Study something that pertains to statistics. This one may be very difficult.
  

So there's my laundry list of goals. As you can see, I've played it safe with the difficulty, so I can feel good about my self if I can knock out most or all of that list. Back to some Guitar Hero and reading before going to sleep.

Good fight; good night.