Cardinals Eve

Hooray--tomorrow will be such a great day!!! Mom is flying in to St. Louie AND Greg and I get to go to the St. Louis Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game! The only hitch in tomorrow's plans is that it's supposed to be quite rainy.

Mom and I have decided that we're going to try to head out of town on Saturday, so that means that today I really need to get a lot of stuff done. I did find out that I'm okay on my $4,000 bill--it's not real. The finance office made a mistake and I don't really owe any money for summer tuition. I am signed up for six credit hours of classes--because of my internship--but we got a tuition waiver from our program, so I don't owe any money for tuition. I will, however, have to pay my student fees which bothers me to no end--since I'm not even going to be around to utilize the campus services for which I will be paying fees, but that's okay. I'm just glad I don't have to dish out four grand.

When I got home from Iowa the other day the apartment felt very empty because Aly left for New York while I was gone. She was a really good roommate and I will miss her. Today I need to get a lot of my stuff packed up and take care of some other loose ends. Those of us HA students who are still in town are meeting Dr. Small and Dr. Reid for one last lunch at the Mexican joint, so that should be fun. And then it's back to work here at the apartment for me.

Last night Laurie, Kristen, and I went to Mattoon's new rage: the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. We decided that the entire city of Mattoon was there. They really do have tasty wings, and we were able to watch the Detroit Pistons game while we ate (Laurie, who is from Michigan, is a big Pistons fan). Tonight Laurie is coming over to my place to watch the Utah Jazz game--hooray for the Jazz! It's scary that they have to go back to L. A. for tonight's game, but I think that their trip home boosted their confidence, so hopefully that can carry over into tonight. You could say that the Jazz found some "energy solutions" at the Energy Solutions Center :-)