My room feels a little more like home today; at the poster sale I had been so eagerly anticipating, I bought Monet's Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through Fog, one of my favorite paintings, and a smaller poster with three Van Gogh paintings on it.

Greg mocked me for picking art, but all the movie posters I wanted that they had are already prominently displayed in several rooms on my floor, so rather than be trendy I'm questing for a [Pi] poster or some such thing, so far with mixed results.

I finished my essay of Frankenstein last night, submitting a first rather than a final draft so that Prof. Alger's winged servants at the writing lab fix minor errors rather than screw with my writing style.

Now for Freshman Studies we're reading Galileo's scientific paper on the four moons of Jupiter. As you would probably expect, it's not exciting at all. I made the mistake of raising my hand in class when our teacher asked if anyone had had physics, and now two other fools and myself have to explain optics to the class on Friday.

At lunch, in a typical act of random socialization, I crashed the table where the Stillwater folks were sitting, accompanied by some random prospective students who were just there for the free food, and a girl from my German class. The conversations and entertainment at that lunch were very random.

Tonight I drove into town to get new tires, taking Greg and Nick from next door along for the ride and a few errands. Fleet Farm was "booked" because I didn't have an "appointment" according to the girl at the counter, so we just did errands; I bought some snacks and we ate out in the real Appleton mall.

Tomorrow I have to go into town again, which will suck, just to get new tires.