driving slow on sunday morning and i never want to leave

it is 12:55 pm jeddah time on friday. do you know what that means? it means there are less than two days left of this vacation. 8:00 sunday morning, i will be watching the desert fall away as the plane (which i've been told has gone on a diet and gotten smaller and more squished) begins the 12 hour flight back to america. sad, isnt it?? kinda scary how three months can fly by so completely unnoticed.

you know what's even scarier, though?? the fact that monday (yes, the day after we arrive) school starts up again. and along with the normal college drudgeries to look forward to, i have part two of my senior design class. before the end of every class the last month of school last semester, my professor told us, "work on your project over the summer. it'll be near impossible to build everything in three months when you have other classes to worry about." sound advice giver that man. unfortunately for us, we (my group and i) are apparently the very worst kind of advice takers. we heard the advice, we commented on how smart it was, we promised to email each other over the summer to get stuff worked out, and then we did... absolutely nothing. none of us wanted to be the instigator of the work, so we all avoided sending that first email.

main problem(s): we are a group of 3 instead of 6 because two weeks before final presentations our professor split our group up to accomodate all the "brilliant" project ideas he had come up with that none of us wanted to use. not only do we have a half-size group, we also made a ridiculous amount of suggestions last semester. so while group A has six people and only has to work on getting an ocean current guide distributed online, we have three people and get to deal with so much more. we have to syncronize the software on the network of their computers, get firewalls up, connect all computers to the network and fully secure it, install a server, work on the advertising of the company (we're basically focusing on web advertising though i think), and fix the website. besides fixing the website (which is a daunting task since it's crap and will have to be completely rebuilt), the rest seem managable... alone. put them all together with the work of four other classes and the stress of getting everything ready for graduation and applying to grad school, it seems a little much.

*sigh* i'm not gonna lie, at times this summer i did want the day of our return to america to hurry up, but at the moment, i'd kinda like to freeze time over here for a while.

*Sunday Morning - Maroon 5