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Hello everyone!

I don't feel like much has happened since I last blogged, but I felt like I should blog while I have to chance :) There was excitement this evening when the power went out :) So not only do we not have cable or internet, we also had no power...lol. It was no big deal and the power came back on in about 2 hours. I have been very enthusiastic about the Olympics, and thanks to my oh-so-intelligent roomate, we now have an old-school antenna on the tv so we are able to pick up basic cable, including NBC!!! Needless to say, I have been watching a LOT of Olympics! This morning, Liz and Titus and I made the walk to campus through the park - it really wasn't a bad walk, around 15 minutes and mostly down a biiiiig hill, to get to our buildings (our buildings are right next door to each other!). We did discover that the walk back up the really biiiiiig hill was a bit challenging :)...so maybe we'll walk to class in the morning but ride the bus back home :)

Today was a good day also because Liz calls Time Warner every day to see if they can come any earlier to install the cable and internet - we've already gotten it moved up to this Friday (only 4 more days!), and today we finally convinced them that we should get one of the promotions as a new customer, so now out monthly bill is going to be $25 less than what it was supposed to be!!! $25 is a LOT of money to really poor grad students :)

Then I got even more exciting news when I found out Tanya and her mom are definitely coming to visit me...tomorrow!!!! They should get here sometime late tomorrow afternoon and will be here all the way until Friday! yayayayayay! AND yesterday I talked to my friend Megan Chesser who is a grad student at UMass Amherst and she is going to try to come visit over Labor Day! I love visitors :)

Today I also cooked my first 'real' meal here at the apartment! I made spaghetti for lunch - mastering the gas burners is a little tricky, but I think I can figure it out! :) So, tomorrow I will be working on final organization and picking up before Tanya and her mom get here, and then we can all watch the Olympics together!!!

Wow! I guess that for not thinking I had done much today I sure had a lot to say! Talk to you all again soon!
<3 Allison