I should be doing homework...

I'd highly recommend to anyone who enjoys bicycling to give the Hoosier Hills bike tour a try. It's 100k long, so it has enough length that you can feel you've accomplished something, and there are enough hills to provide adequate challenge without being overly burdensome.

I'll grant that it's burdensome enough that I had to give myself a moment to find a second wind, but not so much that I had to walk. It was definitely enough that my quads started talking to me somewhere around the halfway point.

I hate to be one to toot my own horn, but kudos to Bright and myself for finishing faster than this group of sorority girls presumably from IU with their fancy jerseys and uber-expensive Scott and high-end Specialized bikes. Even though it probably wasn't evenly matched between Bright and I and these girls, I still think we can definitively draw from it that Purdue is better than IU.

My birthday brought in all sorts of strange foods. Black olives, peanut butter, and pickles. The not-so-strange foods included 36 cupcakes that a classmate brought in to my physics lecture for me. Plus, I received Blazing Saddles, which is pretty much awesome.

And as for now, the week is going fast and I'm surviving my first battery of exams. This is good for two reasons: if I survive the exam, it means it didn't kill me, and classes typically slow down after exams--so less work!

But more importantly than exams and homework, swing dancing appears to be going relatively smoothly. At least, it's going a lot more smoothly than I anticipated it would! At the very least, the music is awesome. Of course, it's usually jazz, but they occasionally throw in a contemporary song. The best ones is when they put on a rap song. Hilarious.