So I go to logic today and the first thing Prof. Whithaus does is tell us that she shouldn't have put Ch. 1 and Ch. 4 on the same exam. Fair enough - it was a lot of info. Then she moves on to say that she curved the exam based on this. Fair enough - she screwed up. After distributing the exams and going over the questions she says add them to make sure I was correct, whereupon we discover that she was subtracting 5 points for every question instead of 4 points. But does she change anyone's grade for this difference in 2% (more depending on how many you missed)? No, she says "Well, you're winning, so we'll leave it." Does this make sense to anyone, because it doesn't make sense to me. THEN after class I talked to a couple of my compadres and discover that after I finished my exam and left on Friday she GAVE ANSWERS TO THOSE STILL IN THE ROOM. They asked questions, she explained to the point that it was impossible to get the answer wrong. That is NOT ETHICAL. And its not even that I would have benefited, because I only missed two questions, which was above the curve, its the PRINCIPLE of the matter. If you are going to answer questions, you do it when everyone is there, not when more than half of the class has left. But above that even, what is the point of giving an EXAM if you are going to fill in the blanks for us? Why don't you just pat us all on the head and give us an A for showing up. I could have sworn I was in college. Moreover, the woman can't teach. I absolutely hate sitting in that class listening to her repeat and more often than not mangle exactly what it says in the book. Why didn't I just buy the book and go through it myself. Argh. How can she be so absolute on not missing class (no more than 6) and not missing quizzes or exams (no make-ups. ever.) and then GIVE ANSWERS TO PEOPLE THAT JUST DIDN'T PREPARE?!?!?!? At least her incompetence has gained me a free quiz (my "reward" for scoring above the curve). Now that I've got all that off my chest (though I'm still fuming) I must go to my fake job at the bookstore.

Ooooh, looook everyone, I'm updating in less than a month! I knew you were all waiting.

Anyway. Just got back from a day trip to St. Cloud. Why St. Cloud vs. Plymouth? I dunno. Andy chose. Probably shouldn't have gone (I have SO MUCH work to do), but I missed Andy and was tired of sitting in the apartment alone, which wasn't going to change when my entire campus packs a bag and leaves every weekend. We met his parents for lunch at Panera yesterday and then did some shopping, mostly for Andy. I know, I know, its surprising, but my funds are short with all this driving and not having a real job, so no spending for Sam :( We got him some clothes for work at Express, which made me only want to leave school more and get a real job because there's some nice stuff at Express that I want to make my own but have no money to purchase and no reason to wear. We also went to Barnes and Noble, of course, to get some coffee and revel in books, but I again didn't buy anything because I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ FOR FUN. Sigh. But then Andy took me to Granite City Food and Brewery, which I'd had a craving for since Jeff brought it up at Thursday night Senate Applebee's. French onion soup... mmm.... beer... mmm.... We were going to go see "Hollywoodland," but dinner ran long so we missed the 6:45. We had intentions of going to the 9:30, but then we went home and helped Andy's mom get her iMac up and running and set up a .Mac account for his grandpa so that the family can video iChat together and decided to get ice cream at DQ... and then it was after 9:30. Oh well. The weather was bad and we were tired anyway.

So this week I hope to get ahead in some of my work. I haven't even begun researching my senior paper yet. Bad. Its hard when I have so much work to do for other classes that is DUE immediately, and there is no real due date on research... Still not sure on my topic anyway. I told Hofstetter that I was looking at third party successes in MN - I talked to Kolnick about doing something with third parties and he informed me that MN has been "taken over" by third parties 3 times... by the Alliance Party (Farmer-Labor before it was called Farmer-Labor) in the 1890s, Farmer-Labor in 1920-30s, and the Independence Party via Jesse Ventura most recently - BUT I just don't know if I want to do it or not. I know that it sounds a little inflated or arrogant, but I just thought I could do my paper on something more significant... not that I know what that means. My largest problem I think is just that I don't want to do this paper period.

Seriously, more and more I just want to quit. Pack my stuff, leave Marshall, and get on with life. But I don't even know what that is, because I don't know what I want to do for a career either. And quitting college I imagine looks bad on resumés, and makes it difficult to get into law school (if that's even something I want to do or I'm just thinking about it because people keep saying that I'd make a good lawyer... not that they can say why). So I stay. But geez. I can't believe that by the time I'm done I'll have spent 5 years getting one of the smallest majors at SMSU. I whine too much. Moving on...

So for Honors Seminar 2, which is centered on food, I've read all sorts of fun books that have taught me a lot about the American mentality surrounding agriculture and eating. Currently, we're reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," and it has me completely enthralled. I recommend it to everyone. For a moment, think about whether or not you think about where your food comes from. I know that most people don't. This book not only makes you think about it, it takes you step by step through it... and its all corn people. Crazy it may seems, but we are corn walking. Its in everything, and its not natural... not going to rant about it here because I haven't quite worked it all out in my head, but I was telling Andy about how we're corn and oil (as in petroleum people! also pointed out in this book) walking and he kinda looked at me like I was crazy. I told him about some grass farmer, and he looked at me and said "Don't tell me you want to be a farmer." Now, I'm not saying I want to be a farmer, but this stuff is really intriguing to me, and I don't know if he gets that.

So this weekend I'm going to Waseca to see the Marching Classic. Mom and Dad are Grand Marshals this year, kind of as a thanks to them for being in the Band Booster and on the MC Committee for like 6 years now, even though Eric's been out of school for 2 years. That should be fun, but again I probably shouldn't go, unless I put my butt in gear and get some work done. The week after is Homecoming. Andy's going to come down and has even said he'll do Kegs'n'Eggs (I will need to make sure the camera is charged!). Sometime soon I'd like to go to Iowa City to visit Erin and go to a Hawkeye's game, and I'd like to go to Montana to visit Kristy, but I don't know where the time or money will come from to do either of those things. Back to if I only wasn't in school...

Now that I've wasted some more of my time, I should get some reading done. But I don't have to like it!

"HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead. HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead." Oh dear Zeus, how I'd like to find and hurt the person that came up with that ad. But I'm a pacifist, so I won't.

Anywho... its been awhile since I updated... for my adoring fans (the 2 of you) I apologize. I got busy. I really don't know how I did it, because I gave up the PR Coordinator job and I gave up being prez of the French club and I've been delegating responsibility to others in the Greens - one would think I'd have oodles of free time, but I don't. I'm behind already. Haven't even begun researching my topic for my history paper to determine if its a doable topic or not (3rd party sucesses in MN - Farmer/Labor in 1890s and 1920s, Jessie Ventura). Oh well, I'm sure I'm not the only college student with this problem (if I am, someone please tell me the secret. please.)

So what have I been up to since my last update... hmmm... *consults calendar* Ken Pentel, Green Party candidate for MN governor, came to the first Campus Greens meeting of the semester. It was really exciting to have him come talk to us about his plan for MN, and more than 5 people showed up too, which was surprising and heartening. We plan to have Ken back on Oct. 10 for a larger Q&A type event, so I've been working on that. We also are trying to bring in a speaker about global warming through the group Global Exchange. This one will be more tricky because its not free, its quite expensive actually, so we will have to bring in some other clubs or departments on campus. One of our group members, Cory, is in a band and volunteered them to do a fundraising concert as well. We might participate in Homecoming too, and of course we are doing Greens Movie Nights (This Divided State on Oct. 2), making buttons to sell, and tabling weekly to raise awareness about our group, our events, and our candidates in the upcoming election. There's other stuff we are doing too, but I really can't remember all of it right now, I just know its out there - I delegated responsibility for the other stuff - go me!

Went back to the State Fair the Saturday before Labor Day. Erin came up from Iowa City and we hung out in St. Cloud with The People and The People's new girly (and some others too) on Friday night, then did the fair all day Sat. I ate too much, of course, but I also walked through the cattle barn for the first time! Erin and I were searching for the McMartin Herd and I witnessed many cows, large and small, being vaccuumed. Well it turns out (thanks McMartin) that they aren't vaccuumed, its the opposite, they are blowing dirt and hay and such off of them to make them pretty for the show. But I never knew. The things you learn at the fair. We also saw The Illusionist, which I recommend for several reasons: 1) it had a plot 2) it was a good plot 3) the characters were sympathetic and likeable 4) the acting was good (Ed Norton) and 5) the cinematography was excellent (males insert 6) Jessical Beil here). Erin went home on Sunday and I believe I spent the day doing Logic homework... or maybe I was reading Enduring Seeds for Honors Sem 2... or both... I don't remember. Erin left her lovely green Old Navy flip flops in Andy's apartment, which means that she should COME TO MARSHALL FOR HOMECOMING or never see said shoes again (maniacal laugh). Homecoming is an alumni event. Erin is alumna. Andy wants to do Kegs 'n' Eggs, which I think would be funny to see. And she would get her shoes back. Erin wins in this scenario, but she is being lame and doesn't want to think of herself as alum because she doesn't want to feel old. Pah-leeese. Weak. Please join me in facebooking Erin until she caves.

Homework. I do a lot of it. Honors Sem 2, while extremely engaging, and a free meal every Wed. night, is taking up A LOT of my time. So is French, surprisingly. Chris is actually, uh, what's the word? Oh yes - teaching us this year, and has been giving us worksheets and things to read and WRITING ASSIGNMENTS. Holy hell. I've lost so much of my French skills over the last year and a half of Chris not-teaching that doing even the smaller assignments for him is taking a very long time. And then there is Logic. I'm trying to remember why I'm taking it, because its pissing me off. I apparently am not logical, and while its not difficult (yet) it is tedious and time consuming. So my "last" semester, which was supposed to be filler, is actually taking time and effort out of me. I don't know how I did it. I'm pretty sure only I could have though.

My this is getting long. I shall make the rest short, I hope. I've been running almost every day (alternating treadmill and elliptical). Nothing seems to be changing, other than I can run farther and longer... but I really wanted my clothes to fit me again. I've heard patience is a virtue, but I think I like instant gratification better..... Nothing much has gone down on Senate, but that usually takes a few weeks for things to really get swinging. Last week I hung out with Matt, Sofia, and Allen after Senate before 9 o'clock Applebee's and then after Applebee's too. That was pretty fun. We watched Green Street Hooligans, and while I don't like Elijah Wood, it was a good flick and it made Jenna and I want to go back to England... sigh... Oh and then Andy got a bit jealous because Allen has given me tomatoes, come to Campus Greens meetings and Applebee's every week thus far, and then I hung out with him to boot. Very funny I thought. Like Andy has anything to worry about, which I pointed out. I don't quite remember what he said to that. (If I make him think he has something to worry about will I get a ring any quicker?) Homework, homework, homework, and then Andy and I went to Jackpot Junction this past Saturday and saw the Blind Boys of Alabama, Buddy Guy, and Johnny Lang. Famous Dave's ran out of ribs because Jackpot lied to them, but the music was good. Andy didn't have an on-night at the casino either - should have known it was bad when he burned through $60, and the ATM wouldn't give him any money, but I lent him $20 to play the Star Wars machine "one more time." Well, the machine took the money and then stopped acknowledging Andy pushing buttons. Had to wait for 10 minutes for the service guy to come, whereupon I promptly took my money back. Lesson: pay attention to signs from God. Tonight I attended George McGovern's speech on ending hunger - that is a world class guy with a real plan there. If we took one month's worth of the money we spend on the Iraq occupation ($7 BILLION) we could feed the world's hungry for quite some time through the International School Lunch program and the International WIC program. How simple, and yet its just not being done.

Homework, homework, I succeeded in avoiding homework to my detriment once again... have a Logic exam on Friday and a writing assignment for French due Friday as well... not sure when that will happen between class and work at the bookstore and a Bloodmobile meeting with Larry at Applebee's tomorrow and meetings/class on Thursday... Sleep sounds good now though... yes... sleep...

Weekend 1 of 16 until the semester is done...

Went to the cities on Friday to spend the weekend with Andy. Traffic was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, in fact, it was better than most other Fridays, when I expected it to be worse as I wasn’t able to leave Marshall until quarter to 4 (=RUSH HOUR). Andy took me to dinner (guess where... Mexican) and then I did homework for the rest of the evening. Yes, sad, isn’t it? I’m taking as few classes as possible to be full-time and yet I have enough homework already to keep me busy on a Friday night.

Saturday we met mom and dad for lunch in Burnsville before they went to a wedding and then we went to the Renaissance Fair! It was supposed to be Buccaneer Beer Fest, but I saw no pirates and there were no specials on beer :( Fun was had nevertheless, because you can’t not have fun at the Renaissance Fair! Andy wanted to go the casino when we were done (big surprise) but I was tired and had more homework to do. So we went home and I read for a good 4 hours so that I could go to the State Fair today.

The State Fair... I ate too much. Well, it happens - it IS the fair. Mom’s bag, which won 1st place at the county fair, received a pink “4th place premium” ribbon!!!! We were all very happy for her. I don’t think there’s a prize, aside from seeing her bag displayed at the State Fair with a ribbon... some nice ladies asked mom how she made the bag and told her that they thought it deserved better than 4th (which yes, it did). FYI for those going to the fair... hot dish on a stick is OVERRATED. It was like a sausage corn dog. The only part of it that was hot dish was the cream of mushroom soup they gave you to dip the sausage corn dog into. I recommend the staples... Pronto Pup, beer, Sweet Martha’s cookies, beer, chocolate malt from the dairy bar, cinnamon roasted nuts, beer.... so, did some fun stuff (except the EcoExperience, saving that for this coming weekend when I have more time), met up with mom and dad, watched the Waseca band march in the parade (not that I really cared, because I don’t know anyone marching anymore), and then drove back to Marshall, where I was a good girl and went for a run.

Now I’ve watched what I’ve been told is the last episode of Deadwood ever (thank goodness for HBO-West), and I must say I’m disappointed. I mean, if you must drop Deadwood to be stingy and only pay Ian McShane for one show, you could have at least let it go out with a bang. I wanted to see just a little blood, preferably that of Hearst, but no, you just let him ride out on a stage coach and EB stands in the hole he cut into the wall of his room looking confused and relieved. That’s it?!?!?! I mean really. Now there will not only be an angry letter to Ian McShane, but also to the writers/producers of Deadwood, and I think one to HBO too.

This week... class, work, committee meetings, day trip to Waseca on Tuesday to get a haircut, pedicure, and manicure and hang out with mom, more class and work and senate meeting, then back to the cities to spend the holiday weekend at the State Fair, where I shall eat and drink far too much, tell myself I’m having fun while I’m doing it, and then hate myself Tuesday morning. Who wants to join me?!?!

So, I don’t know how my mom deals with dad leaving for Ottawa every Monday and being alone in a house until he comes home on Friday. I was in Marshall alone all week this week, and Andy came down on Friday evening and he left about half an hour ago. I was in tears when he left (which is odd for me) because I just don’t know how I’ll deal with being alone. It wasn’t so bad until he got here, but now... anyway, enough complaining. If I’d used my time better than I did I would have graduated in May too, so its my own problem. But I have a new appreciation for what mom does every week. I bet the cats and her bird help. Wish I could have a cat. But that’s another whine-fest, so we’ll avoid that.

Classes start tomorrow... yea. Usually I’m excited at this point (I know, dork), but I’m not this year. Probably has something to do with being alone, and being impatient to be done, and feeling like I’ve wasted my time and potential here. I don’t even know how Andy and I got on the subject, but I discovered (well, I knew it subconsciously, but I said it out loud yesterday) that I don’t want to do history for a living. Most of my life I have planned to go to grad school and be a historian, but now that the time to be taking the GRE and looking at schools and getting recommendation letters is here, I don’t want to. I like learning about history, but I don’t want to do it. I’m really not looking forward to this senior research paper thing. And that frustrates me because by the time I’m done with SMSU I’ll have taken 5 years of my life to get a degree in history that I’m not going to do anything with. Even remotely. And I don’t feel like its even a good degree. I can’t say that I’ve greatly added to my historical knowledge banks, and I can’t say that I’ve learned to write good history. I can tell good from bad when I read it, but past that... Andy says I’m being too hard on myself, but I look at everything he graduated with - Business Admin major, Marketing minor, Pol. Sci. minor - and I’m spending an extra year here and leaving with a History major (only 39 credits) and a French minor (12 credits) and a mish-mash of classes from all over the board that add up to nothing. I don’t know what I did here. I feel like I’ve wasted my time. I could have gotten a Philosophy major or a Pol.Sci. major with my History major or a marketing minor or a public administration minor or even a biology or physics minor, but instead I spent 5 years getting something that I don’t even want now. So what do I do now?

I work 20+ hours at the bookstore this week, being rush, so hopefully I’ll stay busy enough to not notice I’m alone. Going to the cities this weekend, planning to meet my parents for lunch on Saturday before they go to their friends’ son’s wedding Saturday night, then Andy and I are going to go to the Renaissance Fair. I don’t know how you can say no. Then Sunday Andy and I are going to the State Fair to see my parents and watch Waseca march in the parade. Yea for the weekend... only 5 days away...

Hey People, in case you read this before Andy calls you, do you and Justin want to meet us at the Renaissance Fair on Saturday for beer, turkey legs, and belly dancers???

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (Guess who)	× I don't watch much TV these days.  (Um... 5 hours of Star Trek on Spike and no job... what do you think?)	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
× I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.  (Like a pirate when I'm upset... or been drinking like a pirate...)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

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Poll #785730 Sam's Senior Paper Topic
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What should Sam's senior history paper topic be?

The people (aka Kyle Jensen) demanded an update... like a week ago... so now that I’m sitting in Andy’s apartment with nothing to do, the people (Kyle) can have an update.

The big news is that I have a plan. Sort of. Short term anyway. Which is big, because for the last year when all my friends were talking about graduating and what they were going to do and asking me what I was going to do, I didn’t have an answer. SO... the plan: After finals in December, I’m going to move northward to be with Andy. I WON’T be done with school, but the only class I’ll take in the spring will be Senior Seminar, which is just writing my senior paper. (Previously I had thought I’d have to stay in Marshall to take 12 credits to stay on my parents insurance, but Dad says with the decreased cost of tuition by taking 3 credits instead of 12 he’d just pay the difference to keep me on his plan. Yea!) My professor has already OK-ed me being in the cities because we will only meet once a week for a little bit, then not at all in the middle of the semester, and he says that access to resources will be better up here (which I figured when Dad and I originally thought up this scheme). I want to intern with the MN Greens or the Campus Greens, because not only am I a Green, but I think it would provide great experience in PR, organization, and fundraising, which are all skills I can take to any other job once I’ve graduated. I’ve been thinking for a bit about doing PR, because I really liked doing it for the Student Association, but I’ve also been thinking about going into Environmental Law. Either way, the Greens can give me experience I can use.

So, it is a short-term plan, but I’m thinking that working with the Greens will give me a better idea of a long term plan. Andy wants me to start thinking about a career now - he wants me to do that What Color Is Your Parachute thing that tells people what they would be good at, but right now I’m just concerned with figuring out what my topic will be for my senior paper. I was thinking about doing something with the Greens, but there isn’t much out there about them, so I’d have to do a lot of interviews, which are time-consuming and not always quality sources, so now I’m thinking about doing something with the electoral college, direct election of senators, or how 3rd parties became shut out of the American political system. I’m also intrigued by truth-myth things, like pirates or Paul Revere’s midnight ride. If you have ideas for what I should write my paper on, let me know!!!!

Cat update: Andy agreed to try acupuncture once his insurance kicks in on Sept. 1 so that I don’t have to find $6000 to buy an allergy-free kitty. Yea! There are very cute kittens at the vet in Waseca that need a home (Sven, Ren, and Charlie). I want to take Ren home with me now - he is so adorable, with big blue eyes - but I have to wait for Andy to start treatment. My mom is not a good influence, because she wants me to take him now anyway. But even with washing, brushing, and cleaning house often, we just can’t be sure that Andy will be ok. So we wait.

Going to St. Cloud with Andy for the weekend, where I will gather all the things that he left behind (I don’t think he fully understood the concept of MOVING). Then we will meet mom and dad in the cities to see Talledega Nights (woo!). I have one more week to myself before I start work at the bookstore on campus. I don’t quite know what I’m going to do with that week, but I think that Matt wants to get together to jump start organizing for the year for Campus Greens. We already have 4 potential movies that we want to do for Greens Movie Nights and I have a lead on a potential speaker from Global Exchange, so I think the semester will be an eventful one. Especially when paired with the Fair Trade and wind energy initiatives we began last spring. We do need to focus on member recruitment, considering 2 of our most active members graduated and Sara dropped off the face of the planet last April.

You know people (Kyle), I think that I should update more often, so that when I do, its not thousands of words long!

So I’m not great at updating this, but that’s ok because I’ve only told 2 people about it...

Had a crazy 4 days.

Was going to leave Waseca on Thursday morning so that I could unpack my stuff in Marshall and do some laundry and other such I-haven’t-been-in-my-apartment-in-2-weeks things, but then dad and Eric decided to detail my car. How do I refuse that? And I know my Suby wanted to be clean so clean and shiny. So I didn’t get back to Marshall until 8ish in the evening. I had a TV that dad wasn’t using because Andy took his gi-nor-mous TV to the cities, and Matt had asked to hang out when I got to Marshall, so I was hoping he could unload the crazy heavy thing for me. ‘Cept when I called him, he was in Jackson because Jenna had decided they should go to the midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean (can’t fault him on two counts: girlfriend always wins, and so does Pirates). So Andy called his friend David and asks him to help me. He said he would, but then he never showed up. What a flake. However, I am super smart and I realized in the morning that the TV stand dad sent with the TV was the same height as my car’s back seat, AND it was on wheels. So I wiggled the TV out of the back seat, onto the stand, and rolled it inside (reason 2,963 why living on ground floor rocks even though the kids upstairs perform gymnastics frequently).

Friday I attended the first Regional Events Center Design Group meeting. I found out that the administration had been working with the architecture firm since Aug 2005 - a full 5 months before they informed the Student Association that they even wanted a damn bubble! Consultation process aside, they did it, its happening, and at least the firm they chose is extremely competent. The design in function is well thought out for the purpose of the of the center (collegiate and intramural sports, concerts, movies, art shows, trade shows, marching competitions, etc), the actual appearance is akin to the architecture of the rest of the campus, and they even thought of things like energy conservation and sustainable turf (composed of recycled tires, plastics, and sand that doesn’t require chemicals or irrigation to maintain). The meeting was almost 2 and a half hours, and my brain was mush because it was a lot to digest, but I was impressed.

After the meeting, I drove 3 hours to Plymouth to spend the weekend with Andy. I have to find a new route, because Hwy 212 sucks monkey butt. Too many little towns - it took me an hour to go 40 miles! Once I got there we unloaded the car full of stuff that he had left in Marshall (and there’s still more there) and went to dinner with Tracey. I would like to express my love for Old Chicago at this point as they not only have Guinness on tap, but Stella Artois as well - absolutely beautiful! Then we saw Pirates. Which I’m pissed about, as it had no ending, but rather a very large cliffhanger, AND they keep bringing people back from the dead. Not cool. But highly entertaining, and Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom are too hot.

Saturday was Nexus company picnic day which I wasn’t thrilled about because its a lot of new people, and I don’t mingle or make small talk well. A lot of people Andy didn’t even know because he’d only been on the job for 3 days! But being the boss’ son helps I guess because people know you even if you don’t know them and then small talk just happens. Afterwards we ran more moving-in type errands and spent the evening assembling a coffee table, bookcase, and tree lamp, and unpacking the boxes of things I brought to him.

Today we tried to be good and work out, but Andy’s key card didn’t work to get him into the clubhouse, so instead we assembled another bookcase, finished unpacking, cleaned the apartment up, and waited for my parents to arrive. Mom just finished knitting a bag for the county fair and she had to felt it and it needed to be done in a top-loading washer, of which she does not have because her washer is fancy, but Andy’s is a top-loader, so up north they came. Spent the day sitting in the apartment watching mom pull at pieces of a bag after they’d been felted and shrunken and watching the race. Was supposed to get together with Amber, but she wanted to go to a movie with some friends at 7 and mom and dad didn’t leave until 7, so that didn’t happen. Oh well, its not like I’m never in the cities.

Tomorrow I drive back to Marshall and I look forward to actually unpacking from living out of a suitcase for almost 2 months. I also want to do some late spring cleaning, some recreational reading, and work out everyday, because I miss running and my pants fitting. I’m sure things will come up to distract me (probably Matt), and I have to be in Waseca again on Thursday, but at least I’ll get 3 days to myself, which I haven’t had since May.

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I did it! Woo! I feel super nerdy now! Unfortunately, I have exhausted myself with the technicalities of all of this, so I shall stop playing and watch mommy make dinner (sweet corn!!!).

This is a test entry to see if I am smart enough to export a MacJournal entry to LiveJournal... I’m not really sure if I’m smart enough for that...