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In between all the pain of recovering, drastically rearranged sleep schedule, and trying to stay comfortable, I have been able to update my website ( www.benjaminwood.net ). I had the idea over a year ago, what took so long was finding a reasonable design for the portfolio, as well as filling that portfolio. It's become very tricky to make a personal website these days. Thanks to all the features of Youtube, Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook - and to a lesser extent delicious, reddit, linkedin, and dozens of other sites - there isn't a whole lot to do yourself. I guess, the ultimate would be to combine all these social networks into a coherent, useful site. But I'm sure such a feature already exists. Part of this design was to change around this blog so that it fits better with the site as a whole. I did what I could, but I'm afraid any more changed would cause the template to explode! So, I'll see what I can end up adding to the site. I imagine, however, that 99% of a

I attended one class this week - the first class of the semester, as it turned out. And it was a busy one. It's almost overwhelming how much work there will be to do before April rolls around. But once it does, the question becomes, what to do then? Fortunately, I have well over a hundred days to figure that one out. I did make a logo, though I had surgery on Tuesday. Talk about a strange experience... One minute you're playing with the heart rate monitor in the operating room, trying to lower your heart-rate, the next a man walks in and plays with the IV unit... and the next you're struggling to make out one of any of the several clocks that adorn the recovery room. And your throat is beyond dry. And it hurts to move. Then when you make it home, it's as if very little has even happened. "the pain's not too bad," you say, "it's been worse before!" And then you wake up the next day. Pain killers have been a good friend ever since. But not one