I, Muehlenhaus. U, Riedermaus.

I'm currently snowed in, sitting in the reference section of the Science & Engineering Library looking at a bunch of studious types work on mathematical formulas I can't even decipher. It is a strange trip indeed.

Spent the day cafe hopping in Dinkytown. This is my new favorite thing to do on Tuesdays and Thursdays, dog permitting. I start out at the Espresso Royale -- often I'm the second person in there. I gulp down a huge coffee there and normally have to pee by 10a.m. So I pack up my computer, go to the loo, and then head somewhere else. Today it was the used bookstore, where I picked up a lame book on maps with the eight-bucks of store credit I still had left from selling books there way back in 2003. Then I went on to the new and improved Purple Onion Cafe. I kind of miss the ambiance of the old one, but this new one is comfortable and sleek. In fact, it beats the old one hands down on comfort and quality of coffee. So good riddance, I say.

From there I meandered over to a Mexican burrito shop that I had never been to before. It is essentially a Chipotle ripoff as far as I can tell. Not terrible, not great. Not really anything... just beans and rice with a dabble of cheese. Then to Coffman Hall. Where I found a spot on the floor to work on my dissertation yet again. I never realized how many basements that place has, nor that it has a bowling alley. Pretty cool. Went and saw a doctor. I don't have cancer after all... what a relief. I guess I didn't really think I did, but I've got this weird growth on my face that isn't going away. He said it was a swollen gland or something and that it should just go away. It's been two months... but whatever. On my way out, I saw that they were giving people free shots of some vaccine. I didn't ask what it was for, in hindsight, but I filled out a form because the line was short and I love free stuff... shot in the arm and a warning that I may feel like dying tomorrow but everything will really be alright as long as I don't feel any paralysis setting on. Then I finally wandered over here... to the library, where I continued working on my dissertation proposal, which my advisor wanted to be no more than 12 pages but is now 28. Merde!

That pretty much sums up my lame ass day. God, I can't wait until I graduate and get a job where I don't have to share an office with 37 other people someday. Of course, this gives me an incentive to finish my dissertation, though; so I guess I can't complain.


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As for the picture above... if only Austria-Hungary had been so lucky. The French were really over predicting the German-Hungarian capabilities here!