The book I'm choosing for my final project is Timeline. The reason I'm choosing this Michael Crichton novel because I've seen the movie a couple of times and really enjoyed it. I would like to dive into the greater details of the story involved in the book and would like a refresher of the story. I understand that this novel will be more difficult for a final project than some of Crichton's other novels, but now I have an excuse to read this book. I have to make time to read Timeline now that it's homework, especially since I have very little leisure time to read for fun any more.

I've decided that the Humans vs. Zombies isn't worth actually dying over. I stopped playing the game after severely rolling my ankle while chasing after a human. I was convinced that I had broken it. While chasing the human down a narrow flight of stairs, I began to lose my balance and jumped down the last few stairs. When I landed, I rolled over and put all my weight on my ankle. After giving up on chasing the human, I went back to the Mensa to finish eating dinner. I looked down at my ankle to see a golfball shaped lump on my ankle. I was able to walk on it until late at night. I went to my friend's room on Vollmer 3 and asked my group of human friends to bring me an ankle brace one said I could borrow. They made me hobble down three floors and over two buildings so they wouldn't be attacked. I stopped appreciating the game after that and gave up. Eventually I starved to death and am no longer in the game. It was fun while it lasted, but not worth an actual casualty.

Last Wednesday night, I worked from 9 pm to 10:15 pm, I was working by kayaking in the W. There was a kayaking demo in the W. Only three people showed up, so I was able to get in a boat and paddle around for a while. I was a little disappointed that the demo was scheduled at the same time as Eucharist and I had to miss the Halloween sermon, but I enjoyed kayaking in the pool. I practiced kayaking techniques like leaning the kayak on its side to turn, and even tipping the boat completely over to practice escaping and getting back into the kayak if it were to roll. The demo was part of the sustainability week and was brought in by the organizations in charge of running the sustainability week.