A Tale of Three Cities

I have a major problem with three cities right now: Bloomington, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. The problem is that I live in one (Bloomington), but need to regularly (but not regularly enough to justify a bus pass) get to one of the other two (Minneapolis and St. Paul). They are far enough apart that it takes a quarter tank of gas to get there and back home (as I found out today), but too close to justify staying overnight somewhere. I will be spending a good portion of my time in the next week there (at least 4 round-trips) for solar car, and with gas at $40 per tank, I do not have the money to travel that much (nor a job to bring me more money). Long story short: I (or rather my wallet) can't wait until I live on campus again.

In other news, the solar car is traveling to Taiwan in September for a rayce, thus all of my trips to Minneapolis and St. Paul for meetings and testing and the like. I will not be going on the trip myself (mostly because I can't stand the thought of missing band), but I do get to decide who goes... bwahahaha! The next 4 weeks should be interesting though, we have to get the car all ready to go and packed in a shipping crate, something that usually takes months to do.

Also, I still don't have a job. I desperately need one to keep me from sitting around the house all day if nothing else.

Less than 3 months until Spat Camp... yay!

Coming soon to a Campus near you!

Coming Fall 2009, across the street from Mariucci Arena: Bencriscutto-Luckhardt Marching Band Complex! (Officially named TCF Stadium, unfortunately)

That's right, the Minnesota legislature may be good for something after all...

All that remains is Gov. Pawlenty to sign it.

Newspaper

I found myself turning to the page in the newspaper that holds the crossword puzzle and expecting to find Network and Dr. Date this morning. I miss being at school more than I thought...

Almost done...

It's the middle of finals week, which means I'm almost done with school! I took my math final yesterday, I think I did pretty well on it, and it was the one that I was most worried about, so it's nice to be done. Also, I really didn't enjoy the class that much. A few minutes ago, I sent in the last paper for English, so I'm done with that. Also happy to be done with English, since it's one of the last classes I'll ever have to take on the subject (stupid GE requirements).

What remains: my Computer Science final tonight, which should be pretty easy. I'm not too worried because I've only lost 10 points in the class thus far. I'm supposed to be studying for it right now. Also, physics final on Thursday. I'm really not too worried about this one, because of how I did on last semester's. It should be not too bad.

My favorite part of finals week is how much time there is to hang out with people you're not going to see for a long time. I have spent the last 6 nights with the movienight group, we've been watching a lot of movies from our childhood lately (Aladdin, Bambi, Land Before Time, Lion King, etc.) including 7 movies in the last 4 days. Also: movienight-IT honors combined ultimate frisbee game and getting in to a puddle kicking fight last night were some good times. Still to come: Star Wars Marathon with the floor on thrusday night-friday morning: all 6 Star Wars movies in a row! It should be a good way to cap off the year.

BTY: I still have $40 in flexdine left, so I will be eating a lot of pizza in the next few days. If you want some, let me know.