a lot of good stuff happened today. i had my first starbucks out in the new greenspace in front of the Hamilton building, and i discovered i can't tell the difference between a skim latte and a whole latte. while i was out on the greenspace i was reading this awesome article which really sets the course for the rest of my research for the UAW/healthcare/election article that i'm writing. i was getting really discouraged about writing this article and now i'm excited.

meanwhile, my Health Policy professor sent out an email postponing the take home exam one week, from this wednesday to next wednesday. this is excellent because with all i have to do, i was going to squeeze that in to tuesday night. i haven't even looked at it yet so i don't know if that's actually feasible -- now i have a whole week. then my Data Mining professor sent out an email that we didn't have to do any of the reading for this thursday's class. so in two emails, my weekend got moved up to tuesday night! as soon as we finish this group marketing project and present it tomorrow afternoon in class, i can breathe a little sigh of relief and start cleaning the house before people come over this weekend.

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also, my experiment with faux hemming my new pants by using medical tape worked, and my pants looked good all day. well the hems did... when i bought them i had to choose between a size and the petite version of that size which fits a little smaller. it really depended on whether they were going to shrink in the wash or stretch out the first time i wore them. i went for the larger size, because if the petites got any smaller they would just be uncomfortable. of course, my luck, the larger size did all stretch out when i wore them and now i have an extra couple of inches everywhere... they just look baggy. i need a belt. i guess it's better than too-tight pants, but i went shopping particularly so i'd have clothes that fit right. maybe i can purposefully shrink them in the wash. i washed a shirt that i fixed the hem on with medical tape, and the tape lasted through the wash, but i decided not to try the dryer... sounded melty. maybe i'll actually hem the pants with thread and everything... but then if they do shrink like i want them too, they might be too short. sigh.

i also got a wedding magazine in the mail today and that brightened my commute to school (thanks selene!).

now if it weren't going on 2am with the project only half finished, i could call this an A+ day.