Fire Alarms and Rental Cars...

So it turns out I won't be able to rent a car as planned due to the fact I'm lacking a credit card... This caused much rearranging in the Vegas itinerary to allow for easy transportation between destinations, but didn't cause too much trouble. Only two days or so til I'm on the plane, woohoo.

This morning we had a cheerful fire alarm around 8am thanks to someone on the 5th floor burning the sausage they were cooking... Actually I've been counting my blessings in that department, we've only had two this year total when last year we averaged about two a month, generally at the worst possible times.

Just have to get through tomorrows trilogy of sections with random stuff due and midterms coming back, then its basically kick back til the weekend with the next major thing not until next Thursday. Doubt I'll be updating when in Vegas unless I find a cool internet cafe thingy for free, which would actually be nice because telling the stories in sections rather than all at once would be much easier on the fingers and the readers. :)

I've been spending a bit more time than usual lately seeking out and reading blogs by people much like myself from around the world... Quite cool how much you can totally understand what someone is talking about even if you've never met them, or aren't fully aware of the whole situation. Some people just amaze me, the number of hats that they wear, the number of things they're able to accomplish. Some people's lives make your own feel so insignificant, or make you feel like you can do so much more. I've been reading about one young woman from British Columbia who's going to Uruguay through a Youth Exchange program, that's pretty amazing to me. I'm pretty sure I'd drown if I was in a country in which I didn't speak the language. I'm sure I'd learn an incredible amount of things about that culture and what its like to live somewhere other than here, but I don't think I'd ever actually have the willpower to go through with it. More power to those people who can, I admire them.