Just ride on out the curves!

What are those? GOOSEBUMPS? In Arkansas? What is going on here? That’s right, while driving my scooter home last night from a lecture by Arne Duncan and then a delicious chocolate stout to celebrate Anatoliy’s birthday, I actually got cold. I must say I never thought the day would come. If you told me a month ago if I would be happy being cold I would have thought you were crazy. But for a moment I was utterly and completely happy to be cold. It didn’t last long. I vaguely recall Jamie asking or telling me something about me sweating while I was sleeping just a few hours later.

Another revelation upon moving to Little Rock and now starting school is that while a few years ago I was ecstatic about finally being able to receive Pell Grants since I was old enough to not be a reflection of my parents’ income and telling everyone to wait to go to college to be able to get more of their education paid for I now wish I would have gone to graduate school much earlier in life. I have never been so tired in my life and we haven’t even started real assignments yet. I fell asleep about 10 times last night trying to finish reading for communications class today. What time was it you ask? Don’t be thinking it was one of those 1 am reading binges. Nope, it was about 11pm, and after a cup of coffee. Maybe all the water in the air makes me sleepy, I don’t know. I have never been so ready for bed so early in my life. I have never been a morning person and now I wake up at 6am every day. It is almost the strangest thing I have seen since moving here. Oh wait just kidding not even close.

On that note I think I should start a “the weirdest/most different from Utah story of the day” So for today this is what happened. We drove EVERYWHERE to find a spark plug for my scooter. Finally we found an AutoZone but they didn’t have it but the one on Baseline did. And of course we are supposed to know where that is. After we explained that we aren’t from around here the lady at the counter gave us very detailed instructions (haha) We had to go to the light and turn left and go down past a lot of stuff to some other “city” that I couldn’t quite understand and "just ride on out the curves" and then turn left by Walgreens. I don’t know how much Utah has right but the numbered grid system is working!