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It’s hard enough to concentrate in class without huge humpback whales jumping out of the water right outside the window. I talked to the oceanography teacher later and I guess we were going across the humpbacks migratory path. Definitely discovery channel cool.

As you may remember earlier in this semester John and I got owned by some girls who pulled a fast one on us. Well chalk another one for the female team as two different girls got into our room when we were gone and totally switched around everything in our room. When we got back and found our socks were in the fridge, shirts in the bathroom, towels in the closet, life jacket where my pillow should be, pillow where my laptop should be, alarm clock in the shower etc... Owned again...

Yesterday was Grants birthday so we setup a private formal dinner. It is actually a pretty sweet deal where we all pay $25 to get dressed up and have a gourmet five course meal served to us in a private dining room. We of course got him a cake and a couple of the girls also got me a belated bday cake so we went through a lot of cake. I just thought the concept of formal dining on this ship was kind of hilarious. Hopefully we can find more occasions to do it because it’s a nice change of pace.

Two nights ago pretty much everyone packed into the union to watch a recording of the first presidential debate and again last night for the VP debate. I just thought it was interesting because there is no way that everyone there was actually interested in politics. I think for a lot of people it made them feel back at home. On a similar note, today instead of our normal core lecture the ships finance professor spent an hour explaining the current financial crisis. It sounds pretty shitty for lack of a better word.

Those are just a few things I thought might be interesting. Right now we are just southeast of Madagascar with the sea Olympics coming up in 2 days