It has nearly a month since my last blog. I really haven't been up to much. I've been spending a ton of time with my girlfriend, reading, watching movies, playing games and exercising.

~ Girlfriend ~

We are coming up on 15 weeks together and neither of us could be happier (well, there are plenty of things that would make us happier, but none of them are in the cards right now). We get to see each other everyday and hate when we are apart.

~ Reading ~

Ever since I've started reading, I finished The Upanishads trans. by Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita trans. by Easwaran, The Dhammapada trans. by Easwaran and have started reading The Mahabharata trans. by John D. Adams, Hindu Myths by Wendy Doniger and want to read The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. But I don't even know if I'll have time to finish The Mahabharata.

~ Movies ~

I've been watching a lot of movies, including going back and revisiting some old Disney cIassics with my girlfriend... but what has been most surprising for me was how much I like the Harry Potter films. My girlfriend wanted to see the new one and wanted me to go with her, so we started watching the movies and we are going to watch the fifth one today. Great movies, makes me want to take Rowling's work back in time and give it to myself as a child... since it came out only a few years after I would have been very interested in it and never gained enough popularity for me to notice it until I was well into high school.

~ Games ~

After Banjo, I bought Dead Space, and have almost lost interest in playing it (I stopped playing it a few days after getting it, but still want to get myself to finish it at some point). It was good in the beginning but got really monotonous after 4 levels. After almost giving up on Dead Space, I got Crackdown. Fantastic game. Very repetitive but incredibly fun. After that I've got some dance pads and am now playing DDR for both fun and weight loss.

~ Exercising ~

I've finally started taking my diet and health seriuosly. I've been gaining weight since leaving work and need to get it under control. So now I'm eating healthy, keeping track of what I'm taking in in a single day (and trying to limit it to 2000-2500 calories) as well as exercising with both an elliptical and DDR (which works up an amazing sweat and is a ton of fun).