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CS Final: Check.

Ski Trip: Packing! Leaving tonight! Woo!

Christmas: Less than a week! Crap, I need to buy presents…

Bowl Game: Only 8 days away!

That is all. More after skiing. (WOO!)

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After my CS final anyway…. urgh.

It shouldn’t be too bad. And besides, that’s not the point. The point is, it’ll all be over at 3:30 tomorrow. And moreso, I’ll be skiing at 8 AM the next morning!!!

I really truly seriously can’t wait. It’s like Disneyland only better… it’s like as much fun as Disneyland would be without lines, like if you and all your friends were the only guests, except that there are lines and me and my friends aren’t the only guests… it’s just that good. And the weather is looking fairly good as well, with weather.com reporting a comfort index of 7 and 8 for Friday and Saturday respectively. If it’s snowing too hard I’ll need to get goggles… left mine with the parents’ ski gear last year… but other than that I’m about as equipped as one can possibly be for a simple 2-day ski trip. I guess that’s what you get when your dad works for Patagonia… I have to explain this to everyone, of course, to explain why I wear a different jacket every day…

I also now have to tell my mitten story. I tell it to everyone who plans on purchasing a new pair of gloves (as in, the separated finger thingies).

So, I was at Sugar Bowl last year on this ski trip, and I was doin’ my own thing for a while on some of the black diamond runs… yeah… and went up the chairlift with some pro skier dude (he had all the gear for it anyway). I was wearing mittens. Patagoina synchilla mittens. Needless to say, my hands were toasty warm. Too warm, in fact, verging on Hot. So I took my mittens off, shook off my hands, enjoyed the cool wind… and the whole time, the guy next to me was looking at me weird. “You’re hands are hot.” he said inquisitively. “Yeah.” I answered. He was amazed — “Man, I can’t feel mine they’re so frickin frozen.” I laughed, “Mittens.”

So, the moral of the story is that Mittens are better than Gloves. It’s true. And they’re no less tactile either. In fact, I’d say that since a glove pads each of your fingers like an inch thick, and a mitten doesn’t have to since they’re warming eachother, the mitten is much more tactile. They are also better for making snowballs, and we all know that’s the only real important tactile thing you ever have to do while wearing gloves anyway.

Anyway, it’s Northstar on Friday, and Sugar Bowl on Saturday. I’ll be skiing, and wearing mittens, and in a big green one-piece ski suit (thank you Dad!). But first, I need sleep for final! Wish me luck!