So China plans on sending a man to the moon. That’s cool. I wonder if it will motivate the U.S. to get our sorry butts out of low earth orbit again. That would be nice. And a guy in England is planning to launch himself on a homemade rocket next year, after a successful test flight yesterday. I hope he doesn’t blow himself up.
Anyway. I want to go shopping today because I’ve been meaning to go shopping for the past month and a half…but I don’t know if I really want to deal with the day after Thanksgiving crowds. Hmm. My laundry situation is becoming desperate; perhaps I should take care of that first.
(2:23 p.m.)
There are ants in our bathroom. Ants! I can’t seem to get rid of them, because I can’t find where they’re coming from. Is it possible for them to be coming up the sink drain? They always appear around the sink. People said the ants get bad here in the winter when it starts to rain and they all swarm indoors. I guess they were right.
(3:34 a.m.)
Driving home just now, I came across a skunk directly in the middle of the road. A skunk! I realized that I don’t think I’ve ever seen a real, live skunk before. It was black with the double white stripe down its back and everything. I stopped, not wanting to run it over and have the smell everywhere, and it darted around in the road for a minute before running off into the bushes. Weird.
Today was a lot of fun. This afternoon, Aaron and Christopher and Nick and I wandered around town and ended up at some random mall in San Jose for a while before heading back to Round Table Pizza for dinner. Then tonight a whole big group of us went to a bar called Blue Chalk in downtown Palo Alto and drank and chatted and played shuffleboard (I know…that sounds strange, but it was fun). After that all ten of us headed to Denny’s for a late night breakfast and more conversation. It was really fun. I like all my fellow aero/astro people. They’re a really good crowd to hang out with.