Well, it's Sunday. Tomorrow Dawn and I drive back to Lafayette (she's got an advising appointment to switch to an English major at 3:30, so we'd better get back for that [hooray for graduating in a year instead of three! {I like parenthetical statements!}]). Friday, as promised, we went to Six Flags - it was pretty cool, I hadn't been there in about six or eight years. All the rides I remember are still there, but they got some new ones too - including one which opened Friday, Superman. It's actually pretty lame, it's just a big tower with 6 columns of tracks that take seats up to the top, then drop them. For some reason, this is supposed to be the best new thing they can offer, and a lot of people were willing to wait an hour to fall 200 feet - good for them, I guess. Far cooler was The Boss, a huge wooden-track coaster that I hadn't been on before - Dawn and I saw it from the waiting line for the Screamin' Eagle (always fun), and spent a while arguing about whether it was one coaster or two - it was one, but one HUGE one. Good times. I think Dawn liked Mr. Freeze better (especially because we sat in the very front, the only ride on which that's worthwhile), but I guess I like to be on a ride for more than 30 seconds. Anyway, it was a pretty good day, not too crowded (but a little hot), and some guy let us use his discount card, so we only had to pay $10 for a funnel cake and a couple cokes, rather than like $16. $16 would have been OK after she tried to charge me $8 for a bottle of water, but I put a stop to that too. I think since the park just opened for the season a few weeks ago, the entire staff is in training or something - that or they're all colossal dumbasses. If anyone reading this works at Six Flags, let me know which it is so I know if I should apologize or ridicule some more.

So that was Friday, which was followed (as usual) by Saturday, which was the grad party. It was pretty good, we spent all morning running around collecting various trays and supplies and things we'd been assembling all week, and then some people showed up, and we had a good time, and then the people left. It all went pretty smoothly. Immediately after, I picked up my car from Best Buy, where I'd left it since that morning to fix my XM problem (NO SIGNAL!) - apparently my FM modulator thing was faulty and didn't pass the antenna signal. In any case, it works wonderfully now and I can swing to the sweet sounds of talk radio all day. It'll be nice for the drive home. After that we watched the Cards game (another win), and then up to Max's for a few drinks before bedtime.

Today (Sunday) it was up early to sit around waiting for my Mom's laundry to be done before we could go to breakfast, modding my Mom's ReplayTV so it holds like 250 hours of TV now, and then breakfast. By the way, if you don't have a Replay (or some lesser DVR), it's important that you buy one. Like, life-changingly important. I've had to watch live TV occasionally since I got mine, and it's almost physically painful now. After that, Dawn and I went to Target (to return Dawn's rust-stained swimsuit), Crate and Barrel (to see what I could get with a gift certificate I was given, I don't know that I'd ever been there), and Blockbuster (to drop off movies.) Then some brief sitting, watching the end of today's Cards game (go Cards!), and off to dinner - at the new Ruth's Chris in Clayton. I hadn't been to a Ruth's Chris since we used to have one downtown, it's been a number of years. The menu is expanded, and everything is just as huge and delicious as ever - Dawn and Ben split a pile of shoestring potatoes which was literally larger than your head - and covered in a napkin to look which looked like a headscarf. When they were first served, I was a little concerned that they were being served a french-fried woman's head. They weren't, and dinner proceeded. After that, TV watching and now here I am.

Tomorrow we leave, so I probably won't see St. Louis again until Christmas - I'd be pretty sad, but most of my friends aren't here anyway - it was pretty much just Charles and Brittany (Emily's here, but she'll be in Tacoma in the fall, so that'll be fine.) I'll have to persuade them to come to Seattle. Back to Lafayette tomorrow, then two weeks of throwing away four years of accumulated crap, a little bit of deciding whose crap is whose, and then the big move - movers come June 2, Dawn and I go to Chicago for a last hurrah (if I can afford it) that night, and on the plane June 3. Then the first day of the rest of my life.

Man, I can write a whole lot about basically nothing at all. I wish people still got paid by the word to write serial novels - I would kick ass at that job.