Wondering what they have in common? Not much except I have had experiences with both in the last day. After getting my rear bike tire replaced, I have again had the chance to enjoy biking. However, after an uneventful bike ride back from campus yesterday, I took a couple hour nap and after waking decided I would watch a movie while looking at some notes (this is my downtime). Shortly after starting the movie, I hear this loud hissing sound and am sort of worried because my couch is near my furnace area and at first thought about my gas line. But I quickly realized it was coming from my bike. I looked and saw the stem of my inner tube had ripped partially off, leaving my back wheel quite flat. It will be cheap to replace and considering the tube was used, that stuff happens, but I will have to admit it was a fairly random occurence.

In other news, I was in the bathroom for a "bigger purpose" (It may be better not to ask why I am referring it as this), and all of a sudden I saw a cockroach come in under the door in the bathroom. This wasn't just any cockroach, it was about the size of my big toe and scared the shit out of me (not literally of course). It scurried under a pair of shorts I had on the ground and gave me time to finish up at which point I turned Macgyver. Using a toilet plunger and a Tucson yellow pages I was able to direct the cockroach to the hallway and after a near miss with the phonebook, the cockroach was running for it's life. My second shot was sure and so the bug never made it to the dining room. Usually I am not too bad with bugs, but the crickets and the cockroaches down here are absolutely massive and I don't do too well with large bugs, thus the rather embarrassing moment. Oh well, I guess that's life.

-Trevor

This is of course referring to my life outside of studying right now. Life down here has been pretty much staying on the side of boring, but do not pity me too much. I am breaking the repetition by watching a movie while redoing some old homeworks and whatnot. In order to break the cycle of silent studying, my friends and I collected a rather nice playlist of 80's music to keep ourselves occupied today along with some early 90's classics.

-Trevor

A couple buddies and I decided to go up to Mt. Lemmon yesterday. The night before we went out drinking and one of them had a bit too much to drink. as when we finally made it up to the top, he told us to pull over because he wasn't feeling too well. You may not be able to tell from the writing, but this was actually quite funny considering the fact that we spent $5 for a permit just to watch him puke out remnants of a cereal bar. Personally, I would much rather puke at home than travelling an hour, but to each their own. So as you can imagine we turned around and came right back, but I made it to a minor league baseball game though, which was pretty exciting, Tucson ended up beating the Nashville Sounds (Brewers AAA affiliate).

-Trevor

Schools have been reporting lower test scores after the SAT had added a writing section to the exam. The test comes in only at 3 hours and 45 minutes. Clearly these kids do not know what it will be like to have two eight hour exams within a week. Someone should tell these kids to suck it up and just do it. For crying out loud these kids are 16-18 years old and they can't sit in place for a couple of hours and fill in bubbles? Do they want us to start changing their diapers too?

-Trevor

My finals are done, thus I now only have my Preliminary exams on June 5th and 12th. It has been a pretty hectic few weeks of studying, but I see in my near future a good hike and actually eating decent meals, or at least until I start cramming for prelims starting in a couple weeks (The first couple will likely be some casual studying at best until I start to worry). But on a positive note, I can almost see the the end of prelims and thus my journey back to Minnesota for awhile, a healthy trip back to cooler weather and signs of water.

Sorry for not getting out too much in the way of posts recently, but I will try to be a bit more active in posting soon and hopefully more than just political ranting.

-Trevor

Hello World! I certainly haven't posted for awhile and I will not guarantee I will post again soon. I had my first final Friday and two more coming up this week, so I have been occupying myself. I also have prelims in about a month, so the Economics department certainly enjoys keeping me busy. I'll try to get some stuff in, but I know you all probably do not enjoy reading about my exciting life studying, but I'll try to get something in every so often. By the way, the new Pearl Jam album is pretty cool.

-Trevor