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For the first time in what feels like ever, I haven't anything to do. Well, I have an interview to edit, a case study to complete, exam material to study, an article to write, presentations to prepare, a website to populate... but nothing that is absolutely required for today! Friday was the final school-related presentation. It went well! Above, Sarak is ready to sleep not too long after. Despite the slow start, it's going to be a huge week. But for some reason, all I want to do is buy books! I'm not sure what Malcolm Gladwell did to me, but I have a number of books in my Amazon checkout (where you can get Airmiles, so I discovered) and I do want to read them. But I have to finish Blink first. There are a few pictures I've rustled up from various memory cards. My American quarter set, which is nearing completion, some Disney frogs, perogies, a parking lot, and nap time.

The Canadian dollar is being my hero! It's been on an upswing for the past week, more or less. While i doubt it'll keep that pace, I would absolutely love it it went up a bit more and stayed there until mid-May. Analysis have been saying the dollar's good fortune wouldn't last too long, so I paid off half of the balance on the hotel and bought some US money for spending purposes. I also went through all my change and found 95¢ worth of US coins, plus another 50¢ in pennies. About 5% of my pennies were American! This sudden interest in US currency prompted me to check out my quarter collection. I had been keeping US State quarters that I find at work, but wasn't sure how many I had. Turns out, I have 22 different states represented overall (and I scrounged up another dollar in duplicates). If anyone has ones that I'm missing, please can I have them? I'll give you my address and everything (just please don't come and stalk me). [Click to view my collection...

To kick off the exciting time that is anticipating Disneyworld, I thought I would study exactly how much Disney-related stuff I've amassed in recent times. This time, I'll focus on Wall-E. The little robot that could is just too awesome. Everybody knows that I'm the "Wall-E guy" and have been since well before the movie came out. And while I don't have the crazy $300 interactive robot, I have collected a number of items both purchased by me or given to me as a gift. This interactive, dancing Wall-E talks, has eyes that light up, and can even play music from an MP3 player. I went all out and bought the 3-Disk edition of the DVD. The extra special feature disk rocks! Especially with the extra deleted scenes. Wall-E Laundry. What could be better? Eve changes her expression when you bop her on the head, has a plant in her belly, and even has an interchangeable arm cannon. M-O can actually suck up little particles when he runs over them! Wall-E Tap dances when you ...