You know it’s a wonderful day when the weather is 70 degrees, all of the snow is melted, your only class of the day is cancelled and there is a sale at the grocery store for both mac n’ cheese and fixin’s for quesadillas. Today I got to eat breakfast down at the riverside and I just finished a deliciously messy tuna sandwich on my front porch. I don’t even want to go inside to take a shower, the weather…
“If English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for America,” -Rick Santorum I don’t even need to rant about the above quote for you to understand how fantastic, ignorant, and hilarious it is. FANTASTIC NEWS! The Financial Aid office called me the other day and offered me an extension of this year’s financial aid to pay off the rest of my tuition! I have been paying it in increments, which they have noticed, and they called me up…
I’m on Navy Pier right now in Chicago, Illinois. Ben just dropped me off and we went our separate ways. We’ve been texting each other for a few minutes and have agreed that buying a rather large bottle of Pepto Bismol would be a great idea for each of us (the Chicago-style hotdogs we ate for dinner last night are not sitting well in our tummies). I suppose I’ll have some sort of a more thorough update later. For now…
Admittedly, my technique for finding the place I’m staying when travelling to a rather large city I’ve never been to before will not always be the most reliable. However, taking the train in and walking in any direction until I find a Starbucks where I take advantage of the free WiFi to look up my coordinates has worked for me thus far. I rolled in at about 10am this morning, walked one block in an arbitrarily picked direction, found a…