Rents are high and LA is easy

It’s summer. Really, truly. Today is my first day without obligation, except I did have obligation which sort of belittles the joy of summer, doesn’t it? My weekend was fun though, so let’s start there. Yesterday, I bought Animal Crossing. It’s an awesome game and I’m pretty much addicted to it. I spent like 5 hours playing it yesterday and about 2 today. It’s so cute. And I kind of like just wandering around and being bored in a little 3d universe with talking animals rather than this universe with no animals who talk. It was mother’s day and so we did china inn over the dinner table with the family and then I went out to chipotle with Thomas. That was pretty much fantastic, it’s always nice to catch up with him. His sister’s pregnant again so we talked for a bit about that! Babies are so exciting, I think. She’s due in November. This is me taking note. After dinner we went and harassed Kandy at Barnes and Noble for a bit, threatened to have a book fight between US History books and WWII history books but it never matriculated, in part cos we were worried about getting into trouble by someone else… ie not Kandy. That would be devastating. Later, I went to Mle’s and discovered the nintendo wii. Oh my. We played Rayman’s Raving Rabbids and it was fucking awesome. They make one for DS but I read a review of it and it turns out that it doesn’t have any of the mini games. Uggggh. I want it. And I want a Wii. But I think if I got both I’d probably fail next semester.

This morning I went to school at 10 for a meeting with bearman’s class thing. That was mostly just boring. it was nice to see people and it’s nice to have itineraries and be excited about the trip but 10 a.m. is just too early. fuck. so i sat there half-listening to all the important stuff about our trip which is this wendesday and then we went to lunch at planet sub and shoe shopping. in typical jess fashion, i left my credit card in the back pocket of my capris which i wore out last night but not out this morning. eegh. i looked adorable today though, in my black tubetop and sarong. whee. i love the summer, have i mentioned that? i’m also addicted to mcdonalds sweet tea. i’m gonna have to drink as much as i can before i leave the country. i’m sure no one will mind though. oi. i also moved out of the apartment. i mostly just had like 4 or less articles of clothing, some boxes of books, and a bunch of furniture. we got everything moved out. it made me really sad. i guess it seems that moving out would make anyone sad, but really it makes you think about moving in… and how happy things were then and how not happy things are now and it’s just a little bit overwhelming. i’m hoping that this trip to europe does really good thing for my friendship with joe, but who knows. i’m just gonna try my hardest to make the best of it and hope that by the time we get back we feel like it’s a good idea to keep in touch through the rest of our lives.

tonight people are gathering at the state lake, so if its not raining i might go out there, but i’m not really sure. i didn’t get enough sleep last night… so it seems like my best option might be to get some rest and try to get over this head cold before i leave for europe. wish me luck 🙂 also, for those who don’t know… my itinerary in europe looks something like this:
Day 1: Fly from Kansas City to Paris
Day 2: Walking Tour of Paris, until you all collapse from jet lag.
Day 3: More wallking in Paris, focusing on the rise of the university
and a visit to Notre Dame Cathedral–discuss the rise of Christian
Humanism.
Day 4: Transfer to Geneva on the TGV, walking tour of Geneva.
Day 5: Geneva–birthplace of Calvinism.
Day 6: Transfer to Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance.
Day 7: Florence.
Day 8: Transfer to Rome via Assisi (visit the Bascilla of St. Francis).
Day 9: Guided tour of Vatican City.
Day 10: Guided tour of Rome–take the overnight train to Munich.
Day 11: Guided sightseeing of Munich.
Day 12: Transfer to Erfurt via Watburg Castle (where Luther hid from
the Emperor). Tour the university town of Erfurt.
Day 13: Transfer to Berlin via Wittenberg. Guided tour of Wittenberg.
Day 14: Guided tour of Berlin.
Day 15: Fly back to Kansas.

I packed yesterday. I’m taking a single bookbag. I hope it weighs less than 20 pounds just as a point of personal pride. Inside of it? 14 shirts. 5 skirts. 3 pairs of shoes. 2 dresses. 1 belt. 1 scarf. Some bobby pins. And less than 3 oz. each of shampoo, conditioner, hair lotion, super-hair-lotion and deodorant.

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