Tommy and Carly

As most of you know my li'l brudder got married this weekend to a fabulous girl named Carly.  I've been calling Carly my little sister for a couple years, but now it's official.  I don't have very many pictures or much to share from my trip to UT and ID because I spent the entire time sick.

But here are a few pictures I snapped before it was so cold I had to duck inside to warm up.  Isn't Carly's dress beautiful?  And Tommy's silly grin.

My favorite part of the wedding was when they were to kiss just after the ceremony and Carly was a little too short to reach Tommy, and Tommy was not helping by leaning far enough (kinda looked like he was teasing her a bit).  So after a couple tries of Carly stretching as far as she could she gave up and grabbed his tie and yanked him over to her so she could kiss him.  It was hilarious.  And so them.  Perfect for their marriage.

Congrats Tommy and Carly!

Alex - Tommy - Jamo

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What would you do with a Killer Zebra?? I'd eat it.

Today is Friday.  This morning I turned in my last homework assignment of the quarter and I'm done.  Well, done for the next 2 weeks until Spring quarter starts anyway. As you might have guessed, I didn't die.

Our last lecture was on the famous Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and it was quite fun. I've come across this problem a few times before and it seems there are some new recent developments for solving it.  Did you know they've now solved this problem for up to 85,900 cities?  Yikes!

Enough of math.  I'm sure you'd much rather be eating cookies right now, am I right?  Check out some of these cookies, aren't they amazing?  The detail on them is just crazy awesome.  Click the button and head on over to her blog to see some more.

a song to get you through the day

This morning when my alarm went off-- correction, after my alarm had gone off a couple times and my radio alarm was going off as well-- I woke up feeling absolutely terrible. It was as if I just had a pan galactic gargle blaster. If you don't know that reference, shame on you.

This quarter has been one of the worst of my life.  When I first signed up for this early morning class in addition to my late work schedule, plus taking 2 classes instead of my standard one, I thought to myself, 'I can handle anything for only 10 weeks'.  I was wrong.  Today begins that 10th week.  I've been sick for the last 4 weeks.  I went from someone who never naps to having a severe case of narcolepsy.  It all ends this week.  Either I will die or I will turn in my final homeworks this weekend.

In the meantime here is the song that got me through the morning and helped me to not collapse on the sidewalk and fall asleep on my way to class.  I really like this song and it was introduced to me by my friend Tiago.  I believe it was the promotional anthem for the 2010 World Cup.  Listen to it.  On repeat.

Lunch with Matthew

After my class today I stopped by my sisters house to borrow a few items.  While there my sister fed me breakfast in exchange for watching Matthew eat lunch while she quickly ran to the store.  Here's the video we made at lunch.  I showed it to Matthew afterward and he laughed and laughed at seeing himself laugh.

The song he sings is from a video we had watched earlier.  He sings, "A circle, and an oval, and a triangle, and a square.  A heart..."  So cute.  And I just love how he says my name.  My nephew rocks.

PS For those who may be concerned, my phone survived without a scratch.