This has been a the best weekend I've had in a long time.

Thursday the core group I hang with volunteered at the Unverferth House (it's an apartment building where families of people receiving heart transplants at the university's hospitals can stay similar to the Ronald McDonald houses).  We cleaned up the yard, weeded the planting beds, and then mulched.  After that we went to the arcade for some pizza/miniature golf/ddr/laser tag/skee ball action.  This white boy has no rhythem, but we all knew that.

Friday evening Suzy, Natalie, and I walked down to the Short North (the best gayborhood in C-bus) from Natalie's place in Victorian Village.  We ate dinner at this cute place called North Star that serves organic food.  It's no wonder that the place is always packed; the food is wonderful and really affordable.  After dinner we walked over to a zen tea house.  I've never been a big tea person, but we ended up getting some sort of green tea that was actually really good.

Saturday the weather turned cold.  Stephen and I curled up on the sofa to watch movies--he loves Star Trek so I watch it with him even though I usually have no clue what's going on--and play Wii.

Natalie and I have tickets to see Avenue Q on Sunday.  The tickets were expensive (think NY prices) but we have great seats.  We're second row center of the front balcony.  I have wanted to see this show ever since it first came out so I'm super excited.

Random bits

I don't usually have enough to say to make a whole post, so here are some bits and pieces.

1. I'm not sure what I was thinking with my classes this quarter. Theoretical Accounting? I've never done so much calculus and so little "accounting" in an accounting class before. Financial Modeling? The professor is straight from Wall St.

2. I can't believe that in 4 months I'll have exited the halls of academia and entered the working world.  I am really excited to join the company signed with, but I'm apprehensive about the location.  More and more I really want to stay in Columbus.  I have come to love this city and all of my friends got jobs here.  I know that I will get used to living in a smaller city again, and it will be nice to have better weather.

3. Spring break is almost here.  I want to spend a couple days in nyc, but can't find anyone that will go with me.  I understand that it's not a conventional spring break destination, but come on it's ny. I've been wanting some shopping, theater, museum, dining time and there's no better place for all of that than ny.

4. Developling a major crush on a good friend is entirely unproductive.  I'm not sure how it happened; it just did.  We work together in classes, hang out together outside of classes and along the way I guess it just developed. I need to just squash it before it causes any problems or misunderstandings like the last crush I developed a few years ago.

5.  Grading undergrad accounting exams has made me abandon any idea of ever getting a Phd.

Wow, long time no update. I survivived three weeks with the family in Kansas.  I had planned to go visit people around the state and go back to the town I grew up in, but the constant storms did away with that. Oh well, it's always so awkward to see the people from the previous editions of my life.

I am so glad to be back Columbus; I can't say though that I'm glad to be back in classes but you take the good with the bad.  Knowing that I have a job when I graduate has opened up the time to have fun. Friday nights are usually spent with a strong drink, good food, good friends, and wii at my good friend Stephen and his very gracious partner Brian's fabulous place--open a potterybarn catalogue and that's their place. I have really come to like this city, and I'm going to sad to leave it in June when I move to Richmond,VA.

Airport adventures are always so much fun.  When I got to the airport yesterday the lady at the ticket counter couldn't find my reservation.Then she tried to get me to rebook for the 6am flight the next morning.  I politely refused and said I'd take my chances. She's like whatever, but that flight isn't going out today.

I go through security and get into the terminal only to realize that I was in the terminal that amenities forgot--no food, no newstand, no tv, no flight monitors, absolutely nothing.  Thankfully, I had my computer to keep me occupied.  Mainly I spent my time checking flight statuses (sp?) for people, trying to see if any other airlines were flying, what the conditions at the airports were, etc.  The flight was supposed to leave at 6:30, but at 6:30 the plane was still sitting in MN waiting to go to Milwaukee. By 7 we learn that the flight had taken off from MN, but got diverted to Appleton, WI because of the weather.  Some time later it made it back up in the air only get get diverted again to Green Bay, WI.  The plane finally did make it to Milwaukee, but then couldn't get out again.  By this time most of the people waiting for the flight had rebooked on the morning and evening flights for Wednesday, but there were still about 15 of us hanging out waiting, hoping. About 10pm--yes were were still waiting then--they tell us that the morning flight, which was completely booked at this point, had just been cancelled. To top it off, the evening flight was sold out as well so if the plane didn't come that night, we were stuck until Thursday.  The plane finally came and I made it to Kansas around 3am.