Wish my daddy a happy
Wish my daddy a happy 10,957th day of being legal! Yes, you guessed it (or maybe you didn't...), today is his 51st birthday. I wish I had a picture to post in his honor, but sadly, I do not. Our scanner is incompatible with our new computer until we update the software, so... yeah.
Okay, it was a COLD-ass day today. Waah. Winter is here. =( This morning, all the cars had ice on them. Thankfully it turned to rain by the time my class got out. So it's still above freezing. I'll cling to that knowledge for dear life and hope that it lasts just a bit longer. Walking to class in the winter is miserable. There are only two and a half weeks left until I won't have to walk everywhere for a month. And then, of course, we have the rest of winter after break.... ugh. Oh well. That's what I get for living in Illinois.
Hey, did you know that the line between The North and The South runs right through Champaign? Yes, there is an honest-to-goodness political, ideological, and demographic LINE that divides the North and the South of the United States (we learned about it in our government section of PR), and south of Champaign, Illinois is the area inhabited and run by folks who migrated north from the Southern states, and north of Champaign is inhabited and run by folks who settled from New England and the likes. And yes, the two halves of our fine state are run very differently in their local governments. Which is pretty funny, because there really is a TRUE mix of types of people here in Champaign-Urbana, and not just because this is a huge university drawing from all over the US and world. ha ha. Anyway, I just thought that was interesting. That there's an actual line that can be drawn on a map and seen clearly by visiting the towns in those two separate areas of our state. I think other states around us are mostly North or South. We're just lucky. We get the best of both worlds. <.g>
So I think I did well on my PR exam. I have to present my plan for my MTV paper tomorrow in class... eeek. Maybe I should read some of the articles I will be using. Today marked the beginning of the Graduate Employee Organization's TA walk-out. The building I have EVERY class in was one of the buildings being picketed. So I had to cross the picket line to go to class. Excitement! Tomorrow my 9:30 class is meeting in the Y. I don't know where the Y is. lol. Hopefully I find it!
Okay, that's enough out of me.