My frisbee team won the UM intramural championships. We felt old and cranky.

I've quite enjoyed delivering work-related stuffs to downtown Ann Arbor businesses today and over the past week. The city is full of secret corners and musty or luxurious or frightening 2nd and 3rd floor studios, the sky was Octobery today, and the leaves were wet; it was an interesting afternoon of tromping around outside.

The Darjeeling Limited is awesome. Having seen it twice and listened to the soundtrack many more times, I am a citizen expert.

One aspect of college life I really appreciate having the opportunity to re-embrace is that there is always free food around somewheres. Additionally, working for the chamber of commerce yields its own culinary delights. Today's gratis takings: the Earl of Sandwich for lunch and JeRu aka J.Gar AKA J.G. hummus and falafel for supper. Delicious!

Today's + tomorrow's holidays from class = Fall Break '07! Thanks, Michigan. To celebrate briefly before this week's onslaught of midterms, some fellow first-years (from Cali, R.I. and Illinois) and I blitzed up north Friday evening for a nonstop Northwestern Michigan Extravaganza. In fifty-five hours we: made & consumed delicious mulled Franzia, ran along West GT Bay, sampled each edible item at Cherry Republic, beveraged at Good Harbor, breakfasted at the Omelette Shoppe, purchased butternut squash and expensive soap at the Farmer's Market, cased the Dunes, tried some lemon squares in Glen Arbor, had bison burgers at Sleder's, imbibed Schlitz Blue Bull and then slept on a houseboat on Lake Charlevoix, experienced the longest breakfast ever at The Alcove, puttered around the Apple Festival, boated on Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix, drank tea in TC, dined at Giovanni's in Interlochen, watched genius high-schoolers do improv and said hi to The Beej at ILochen, and then drove back to AA. It. Was. Amazing. Below: Antics @ Pierce Stocking. Wee.

I spoke with my dean the other day and he informed me I should be able to study in Australia next fall if that's what I want. I think I do. Hooray. Now to apply and fund.

My roommates really love Maoxie. It's precious.

I've been playing with the Random Sentence Generator, which is fun:

• A prerequisite helicopter gloves any dogma.
• The hook rockets.
• A special barrier behaves on top of the pigeon.

Below: bleary-eyed planners learning about the Mississippi River's formative effects on the Minneapolitan watershore. precious.