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I had the fortune of seeing Iron and Wine perform with an orchestra. Samuel Beam played a really good show. I was very glad I was able to attend. The first half was a special concert that incorporated a majority of the songs from the album  Our Endless Numbered Days . I have a few reactions, and also suggest picking up a copy of this record. Initially, I expected, well, I didn't know what I expected. As we got closer to the location, The Kennedy Center , I began thinking more about the potential course of the event. The venue has a way of sculpting your foresight. I had never been to this place before, and had not looked at pictures, so it was a truly real-time reaction. What a building! Both inside and out, this is an amazing structure. Starting off in the parking garage underneath the facility, we enter through a clever tunnel into a grassy knoll which has an impressively expansive parking arrangement. We had the fortune of finding a spot very close to the elevators. The ent...

Sometimes, college just sucks. I barely made any progress in school this week, and the excessive failures (documented) show. The majority of the issue is brain fog and sleeping, which keeps me from actively addressing these assignments. I even just wrote a sappy "Learning Journal" entry to lament on the lack of success, and the fear that the missing elements from these syntactical learnings will negatively impact me in the coming weeks. To summarize, the week focussed on ADTs in Java, working with stacks and queues, and creating, sorting, and counting binary trees. I absolutely understand the principal of what is going on, but converting it to code simply makes no sense. I honestly felt like I was doing better physically. Now I'm just rather bitchy.