End of the Year

This will probably be my last post of the year. I just got back to Dallas from St. Louis. The holidays were different this year because I was with the family less and the other cousins were gone from the main events. Though we stayed a day less than we thought, I was able to see Jeska more than expected. She met a bit of my family and I chickened out of meeting most of hers, though it sounds like it probably would have been a fun tipsy time. Seeing her in person after a year wasn't very awkward at all, which I take to be a good sign. I gave her a mix and took her to a fancyish French restaurant. It was in an industrial-looking side of town, like where the steel mill and soup kitchen would be, but behind the dull brick facade are lofts and Franco, the upscale eatery. We sat on one of the window benches so we looked like nobility eating and looking down upon the other diners. After a cheese plate, we shared a Moroccan vegetable stew and duck with potatoes and beets. If we could eat food like that every night, I'd be willing to sit in the window seat like a restaurant couple fixture. I also spotted a Mark Twain look-alike dining there. Then Jeska took me for iced cream where all the pretentious 20-somethings like to go. I don't think I've ever been with someone as openly interested in possessing me as her. It will be hard to wait the two-and-a-half months to see her during Spring break.
Oh, yeah, I also got a speeding ticket right when I entered Missouri. It was my first one and I didn't know what all I was supposed to say so I didn't get a warning. Basically cops just sucked some life out of me right before the holidays; I've never needed a cop before, they've always just been a hindrance.

Notes

Today I'm going through old textbooks to see about selling them to Half-Price Books and I found some notes in one. Here are a few:

Land taken from the Amazons and abandoned is being reclaimed, not by the same species but still serviceable habitat. Amazons aren't as fragile as thought.

Why are beaver dams good and human dams bad?

Do man-made lakes shift the weight of the world? Water that should be flowing isn't, thus weight.

Would there be life on Earth without a moon?

Culture is human adaptation.

Water on Earth may have come from comets hitting during early formation.