So I'm sitting here watching the finale of American Idol although I haven't seen an episode since the finale with Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard. This season it's down to Alabaman Bo Bice and Oklahoman Carrie Underwood. I found it rather interesting (or kind of sad, rather) that the governor of Alabama made it officially Bo Bice Day yesterday by ( Read more... )

So I must say, the latest Star Wars movie turned out to be better than the two before it. The story was solid and it was so neat to see the final pieces of the puzzle fit together. And I thought that Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan) and Ian McDiarmid (the Emperor) did a really good job acting and developing their characters ( Read more... )

So my mom, her two sisters, and four of their kids drove down to Chicago last weekend for President's Day weekend to see the sights. Three of the cousins (ages 6, 8, 10) had never been to Chicago before and so made sure to see as many interesting things here as they could. I accompanied them to the Field Museum and Millennium Park on Saturday and ( Read more... )

Over the past few months, my mom has been bugging me about studying abroad and how I should apply to this study abroad program in France. There were a few different options but none of them really appealed to me. Either I would have had to master the French language in a few months (and it's been a while since I've had francais . . .) or not take ( Read more... )

Back to school for all us lucky folks on the quarter system, although in my opinion, January 3rd is a little too soon to resume classes ( Read more... )

So I went skiing to Colorado with a friend of mine from school a week ago. He has family out in Frisco, CO which is near Copper Mountain (where we went skiing) so it worked out really nice. We got uber cheap airfare and lift tickets and didn't have to pay for lodging ( Read more... )

  Last night was AWESOME.  Northwestern was host to Ohio State for our first home football game at night in a few years.  Ohio State fans had arrived in our capmus parking lots by noon to tailgate, charging the atmosphere and increasing the average BAC on campus by about .2.  But the rowdy Ohio State fans couldn't possibly have known what they were ( Read more... )

  So weeks after most colleges start Northwestern finally decided to start classes, coincidentally the same day autumn begins.  My class lineup includes:

- Material Science 201: An introductory course to material science.  What is material science?  You'll just have to take this class to find out.

- EA4: The fourth and final course in the ( Read more... )

  State Fair time once again and for the fourth year running I'm working with Tom Thumb Donuts, pumping out the dough for their yummy mini donuts.  This year though I didn't travel the road with them all of August doing various county fairs - just the big one for me this year.  So anyone who is still planning on going to the State Fair should ( Read more... )

  Back in Chicago once again.  Here for two one more week before I head home for the remaining month or so until school starts up again.  And I should be selling mini dounts at the State Fair for the fourth summer in a row assuming those Tom Thumb people call me back.

It's so awesome watching the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympics in Athens ( Read more... )