Vacation Preparation

Going to bed soon... tomorrow will be busy as I take the second half (oral) of the German "final" test and then proceed to throw together some sort of packing arrangement and head to my parents to do what laundry I might need and spend the night. Then Saturday morning we fly out to San Francisco. It should be a fun trip. I'll probably bring Quark (my laptop) to my parents' tomorrow and do some last minute email reading, but most likely this is my last blog entry until I get back (Aug. 16, spoketh the Sunbird).

I should have been packing tonight, but I got distracted by the Leadership Advantage festivities. I ended up lending a hand with the meal preparations (nothing says College like cooking 60-ish JTMs on a big honking grill), which was something like a pre-tailgate season practice. Football starts in September and I'm going to have to be there on the tailgating frontlines. The older guys have mostly matriculated and now its my turn to help carry on the legacy. After dinner I hung around a bit and got to watch the scavenger hunt videos.

Finished the written half of my final German test today at Highland Coffee, then nostalgically walked around the newly renovated Bloom Elementary (I went there for two years) before heading home. The new addition looks pretty nice and they attempted a decent replication of the aged highlands school style with a modern (read: cheap) style. The big thing it was missing was column decorations and roof line decorations. All in all they did an astounding job of meshing the styles unlike a certain University I could mention. Each day passes and the Ekstrom Library Expansion looks uglier and clashes more with the over-bearing blocky Library. It's funny ...