Plain Beat.

I'm exhausted. The Chicago Practicum paper got to Kinkos last night around 1:30 AM. Let's hope we got all the typos and problems out of it. It is nice to know that we can't make any more changes even if we want to. It's finally done.

(Optimistically, last night Ken and I joked about how our paper would be a model of a total salvage job that got done in half a semester. I imagined Rex and Z telling future planning students, "Now this is what your report could look like even if you don't start until March!" Now that'll strike the fear of God into them!)

The final presentations are Monday in the International Center. I'm pretty sure anybody can come. Email me if you want more details.

(You're probably wondering where the Germany stuff is by now...)

This morning I got new wiper blades for the Paseo. Since they're predicting thunderstorms and such today I figured it was high time to fix that. So I walked into the gas station and realized I had no idea what size of blade I needed. I tore the rubber blade (which was already 85% detached) and used it to find the right size. After 20 minutes of finagilaing around like a jackass I asked the gas station attendant to give me a hand. She pulled my old blade off in seconds and got the new one on. Then she went back to selling gasoline.

(Now here's the Germany update.)

I found out what sort of plane I'll take across the Atlantic. The Airbus A330-30 sounds pretty nice. Here's the wikipedia article it.