I can’t stand it when I have the perfect idea for something to write here, and then forget it hours later. It’s like the more information I try and cram into my brain, the more stuff falls out the back, forgotten.

At any rate, my day got off to a poor start when I was leaving my fiancée Rachel’s house and noticed that three accidents had occurred, all along 95-S. Her dad helpfully suggested I take an alternate route I had never tried before as a means of bypassing the congestion. However, in my naivete I first went the wrong direction on 40, then the wrong direction on 695, with the end result being that I still ended up sitting in different traffic, the whole excursion took two hours and fifteen minutes instead of the normal, non-accident time of approximately 45 minutes, and I ended up fifteen minutes late for class despite leaving her house at 6:45 this morning. Lovely!

However, in typing this I remembered the beautiful sunrise over the water I almost pulled over the photograph, at which an official sign had been posted with the following text:

CRIMINAL ACTIVITY PROHIBITED

Consider that one at your leisure.

I also got my nice shoes covered in mud, thanks to my mid-journey consumption of a Red Bull, the onerous, neverending traffic line, and my mounting need to “relieve myself.” That is to say, I really had to pee and ended up cutting off a few drivers on my way to the shoulder, hopping over the guardrail, and half-walking, half-sliding down a small ravine to a flat area where was able to do as nature required. Alas, the poor shoes.

In other news, I ate at the Skylight Lounge today, being careful to take multiple helpings to ensure that I got everything I could out of the eight Flex Dollars I spent to get in. The food was pretty good, especially compared to the offerings Downstairs, but now I’m going to have to work additionally hard to use all my meals this week (another unnecessary expense).

SGA has been doing some good work as well of late, with the SGA-Students blog preparing to launch tonight and the newsletter taking shape. However, I was recently shown just how out-of-date the content on http://sga.umbc.edu/ really is. Hey, at least it looks a lot better (thanks, Nikki!).

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