Thursday, June 30, 2005 Man, I was so productive yesterday it was ridiculous. Honestly, if I was going to leave for Benin tomorrow it wouldn't be a problem. I bought a backpack, and filled it yesterday. 45 pounds down, some more to go. The backpack I got was totally sweet (and from Big 5, so thanks to a generous gift from my friends at Andiamo, gratis). Standard looking internal frame backpack, but... it has more pockets and zippy things, and neat little things than any backpack I've had before. For example, I was poking around at it, and felt a strange cloth thing in the base. I thought maybe it was stuffing, so I unzipped the compartment below and there was a freakin' pack cover inside! Not only a pack cover, but a pack cover attached by elastic to the backpack! You can't lose it!! Okay, maybe I'm too excited about that. In any case, I'm feeling pretty good with my progress. As such, of course, I've completely wasted today. Ah, feels good.

Oh, my Mom has this Diet Coke with Splenda hanging around, and I'm frightened... I actually like them. Bizzare.

One other item of note is this. Nothing really amazing, but I thought it was neat to see my name in a press release.

Well, today is the day of laundry... which means I've got a lot of folding ahead of me. Wish me luck.