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Well I feel it’s been sufficiently long enough since my last post. I’M DONE!!! Finals are complete and I have passed all of my classes! Now I can move on to happier things. Last night the Boginator and I started our educational suicide, aka Special Relativity, and it was neat. We were able to make sense of everything we studied and draw some nifty diagrams about how different observers view the passage of time. Anyway I won’t get into that unless peoples really want me to. I received my results back on the Limited Entry hunts and it looks like I have, yet again, failed to draw a Bull Elk tag (*spirited fist shake*). This puts me at 10 Bonus points. For those of you not familiar with the Utah draw system I’ll tell you a bit about it. When you put in for a hunt and don’t draw you get what is called a bonus point. For each bonus point you have, your name is entered in the drawing another time. This is somehow supposed to increase your chances of drawing though if everyone gets another bonus point too they’ll all be increasing by the same amount and thus no increase in probability will be observed with the exception of those that actually DO draw a tag (in which case all bonus points are erased and you wait 5 years then start over from 0). I have been putting in every year since I was 14 and have never drawn. I am now 24, and have accumulated 10 bonus points. They do, however, place a limit on the number of bonus points you can have. If I do not draw next year I will have reached this limit. My dad has likewise never drawn a permit and has been at the maximum limit for 6 years now. I also know a number of other individuals who have continued to put in for the drawing and have repeatedly been denied. I have officially lost all faith in the Utah draw system (despite having acquired a Turkey tag) and will begin looking to other states for reasonable odds in spite of the increased cost associated with non-resident hunting tags. In short, “Utah Division of Wildlife Resources can go to hell!” Meanwhile, the Nikkinator and I will be in Cancun in two weeks (*yay!*). I’ve not been focusing on our upcoming trip because of school, but now that’s over I can get all excited and realize that I only have two weeks to fit into my bathing suit! Anyway that’s about all that’s gone on recently, besides me being a freak before my finals due to the amount of caffeine pulsing through my veins. Anywho, toodley pipski!