I'm in Maine.

I'm in Maine for a few days studying for final exams. It's very relaxing, because there are no upstairs neighbors, and no drum sets. I figured the short study vacation would be a good idea so that I can get a little extra sleep, and have a quiet place to study. The library at school isn't really an option for me because it's more like a dungeon with books than a library; it's always freezing, and it's underground, so it's pretty dark.

It's been a pretty relaxing day here so far. I started out the morning by studying for my tax fraud & prosecutions exam. I even had a study assistant!

After studying for awhile, I took a break to do some laundry. My other assistant helped me fold. She wasn't much help.

Then I went back to studying, and am just taking a break now to update my blog. My assistant says hello. She wanted to guest blog, but she was getting too much fur on my computer.

I kind of forgot that Maine has distractions too, and these ones like to follow me around and try to sit on me.

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I am an excellent procrastinator. I'm taking a class this semester where throughout the course of the semester, I have to write five papers. I get to choose which weeks I will write the papers, although I am limited to write about the topic we are covering that particular week. I usually put things off until the last minute, and this usually means that I am up very late on Wednesday nights (usually until about 2 a.m. on Thursday mornings) finishing up my papers, which are due Thursday morning. When I am working on these papers, almost anything else seems more interesting to me than what I'm supposed to be doing.

One recent Wednesday night caught me and Joe discussing the state quarters. I was mentioning how although the Maine state quarter came out a few years ago, I have never received one in circulation. In fact, the only one I have seen is the one that I have on my keychain. We have an enormous Stella beer glass where we throw our loose change, and the discussion got us wondering how many different state quarters we had in the glass. Since I didn't have anything better to do, except continue working on my paper, I dumped out the change and began sorting quarters. This is what I found:

It turns out that we had 43 different states. We were missing Maine, Hawaii, Oregon, and four others. I actually made a list of the ones we didn't have, but then I threw it away when I was cleaning. I figure I can always re-check our quarters next Wednesday night.