March 02, 2004
Spring Break!
Spring Break is finally here! At long last! My test this morning in Adv Math Methods actually went alright, I was quite surprised. I think I have a decent hope of pulling out a B on that test. I was counting down the minutes in all my other classes, and then I gave what to be the longest campus tour ever this afternoon for Admissions. The family I toured wanted to see just about everything: Sohre (in addition to Wahlstrom), the digital arts lab in Confer, the greenhouse in Nobel, the scene shop in the theatre building, and then Svenska Huset (the Swedish House) in Int'l Center. All told, my tour took about 1 hr, 40 min (my tours normally run about 1 hr, 10 min for comparison). But then after clocking out I had to go download wind data from the weather stations around campus for the wind energy research project, meaning that it was after 5:30 before I finally left for home. Sigh.
I stopped at the Mall of America on my way back, and almost spent a lot more money than I wound up spending, hehe. I was tempted by a 40% sale on the game "Cranium" at Wizards of the Coast (their MOA store is closing apparently), and then some cool fitted Gophers hats at College Shop. Next time I head through the Cities, I might just have to buy those. :-) But the reason I stopped at MOA was to go to Barnes & Noble, where I bought three books: In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (an absolutely hilarious travel book on Australia, the country that "harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else" -- I *highly* recommend it to anyone who's even just looking for a good read or wants to laugh), and then two Lonely Planet travel guides, one for Australia and one for New Zealand. I think we're gonna be trying to figure out over Spring Break what our travel plans are gonna be.
Oh, and I got the "official" packet of info from IFSA today that detailed the stuff about the group flight, which lands in Melbourne on the morning of July 6, after departing Los Angeles the evening of July 4. Sucky. I mean, I'm not complaining about spending a week longer down there, but why couldn't it be just one or two days later, so that I could catch the fireworks on the 4th of July up here in Cumberland with all my friends?? I'm really bummed about that, but I'm still determined to try and have some sort of shindig that weekend up here, even if it might not involve watching the fireworks on the shores of Beaver Dam Lake.
Don't be disconcerted by the image on the webcam not changing all week. The webcam was turned off last night, and won't be turned on again until we get back from spring break. So I guess we'll all be treated to the "Ben & Matt show" for the next 10 days, hehe. The plus side is that Andy was allowed to stay on campus during break, so we didn't have to unplug any of our electronics out in the section, including the webserver. Josh had previously been planning on taking that back to South Dakota with him and trying to get it to work out there, but it's just a lot nicer being able to leave it on campus where it's working just fine, and not tempt fate.
That's about it for now. Oh, and I was mildly depressed when I saw that there still are a few piles of snow here and there in this part of northwestern Wisconsin. Jake was jealous when I told him that we really haven't had any snow on the ground in Saint Peter since the last week of February, hehe. Why won't it just melt already? Well, at least the creek is roaring. Ya gotta love Wisconsin.
Posted by Jared at March 2, 2004 11:45 PM