Remember how I said I wasn’t going to talk about my GPA anymore? I lied. Final grades for Fall Semester 2003: EBUS-3180: Website Design for Business Communications — AENGL-3050: Persuasive Writing — AENGL-4080: Writing Workshop-Fiction — AENGL-4090: Current Writing Theory — AFILM-3350: Screenwriting I — A Grade Point Average for Semester: 4.0Cumulative GPA through 29 courses/90 credit hours: FOUR POINT FUCKING OH. Don’t ask me how I pulled this one off, because at this point even I’m not sure. All I have to say is…

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This is Sean Shannon’s Infantile Sports Whine of the Day: Stupid Bengals … stupid Browns … stupid lousy officiating … stupid season … stupid hopes I got up … stupid football … stupid sports … stupid Kitna … stupid Corey … This has been Sean Shannon’s Infantile Sports Whine of the Day. Tell your friends.

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New on Backwash: “Great Big Dancing Dork”. Yes, I’ve gotten so far into Dance Dance Revolution that I just had to talk about it on Backwash, and even that got me overly self-conscious. I don’t know if this is a column about Dance Dance Revolution or my neuroses. Either way, go read it, and someone tell me when the Bengals game is over because I can’t bear to watch it at this point.

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Okay, when it came to stuff that was on my list I didn’t get as much as I wanted — the folks pretty much went on their own notions of what they thought I wanted/needed, and I only got two of the things I explictly asked for, one of which was Final Fantasy X-2, which I’m sure I’ll have a fun time playing if I can ever tear myself away from DDR. But the other thing … the other thing made the wait for today…

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Holy crap, is Dance Dance Revolution the most fun ever. Not the kind of fun I’m ever going to show anybody, mind you, but playing by myself it’s like … where has this been all my life? I have great fun, I get a good workout, I’m challenged without getting frustrated … what’s not to love? Anyway, happy holidays to one and all. It’s looking like a pretty good Christmas is shaping up here in the Shannon household, and hopefully I’ll have a full prezzie…

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