Robert Palmer dies, and he gets mention on the main page of Yahoo! and right as I sign on to AOL. George Plimpton died yesterday, and I had to click on Yahoo! Sports to find that out! No, I'm completely serious here, who is more important: Robert Palmer or George Plimpton? People are stupid, and that's all I have to say.

Yeah, I feel like a dumbass. I've been totally out of the loop lately, so I didn't even realize that Belle & Sebastian has a new album coming out. In fact, I learned this bit of news from a copy of Spin ganked off a plane while cleaning it last night. As soon as I read the review, I threw down the magazine, put some shoes on, and headed off as fast as I could to my local music store. After thoroughly searching two different music stores, I gave up and decided to go home. It was only after arriving home that I saw that I was looking at a November edition of Spin, and I found out from the B&S website that the album isn't being released until October 7. Yeah, I'm a fool. Of course, I also found out from the B&S website that they're going on tour also, and will be at the Congress Theatre in Chicago - the same place Molly and I saw blur this summer - on October 30. Hmm... a Thursday. It's getting tougher and tougher to get off. Why does there have to be so much going on now?! I had to trade hours to get off tonight to see AGSFB in Madison. I was invited to a wedding on October 11, but there's not a chance in hell I'll be able to get off. I'm going to Cali October 14-18. B&S in Chicago on October 30. And, yes, I wanted to get down to Madison on November 1, but that's looking less and less likely now. Shit fuck. Anyway, I'll think of something.

So, anyway, I should be leaving at some point within the next hour to head on down to Madison. I have to make a pitstop along the way in Oshkosh to pick up a copy of the study guide for our first exam in my class next Wednesday. Yeah, I still have that thing going on also. I've figured all along that the show wouldn't run too late tonight, and I certainly hope not, because I want to get back and party with the crew as soon as I can. Oh yeah.

Yes, kiddos, it's true. All-Girl Summer Fun Band is really leaving the Northwest and going on a short tour of the Midwest this month! They'll be hitting here in Wisconsin next Friday at the Catacombs Coffeehouse in Madison. Also nearby, they'll be visiting Chicago on Monday and Minneapolis next Saturday. Yay!

The Twins have announced that Eric Milton is going to make his first start of the 2003 season on Sunday against Cleveland. With Mays out for the rest of the season and all of next season, and with Rick Reed just plain getting old - not to mention his nagging back injury - lets hope that his first start goes well!

I finally got off my ass and did it. I finally registered for the GRE. I'm taking it on September 30 down in Oshkosh. In other words, sorry guys, but September 29 is one night you probably won't see me out drinking.

Wow, Johnny Cash and John Ritter gone within hours of each other. We all knew Cash was sick, but who knew about Ritter? Sorry ABC, I guess there's the end of "8 Simple Rules." And the entertainment world says good bye to two Johns....

I decided to kill some time tonight by perusing the U of M website, which brought me eventually to the class schedule. Curious to see if Professor McCormick was teaching a film class this semester, I brought the list of German classes, and what should I find? German 1601: Fleeing Hitler: German and Austrian Filmmakers Between Europe and Hollywood. Yes, we're talking an entire class about the likes of Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Detlef Sierck, and Max Ophuls. He makes no mention of Ernst Lubitsch in the class description, but I hope he included him also. Anyway, arrrrgh! Why, Rick, why? Why did you have to wait until I'm 300 miles away and left taking classes at UW-Zero to teach this class?

Anyway, the new 'U' website looks nice.

I see a pattern forming here. That pattern would be that each Tuesday is when I get a chance to get online and post new entries. Well, actually, that's just the way it has been lately. Summer is coming to an abrupt end here shortly and my days of drinking myself silly every night are basically over. There are too many things that I want or need to do in the following weeks to be wasting every night in a bar. That said, I hope to waste at least part of tonight in a bar.

I drove down to and around Oshkosh today trying to figure out the best way to get to campus. I needed to turn in my add card for the class, and I had hoped to catch the prof in his office, but he was out. I also checked out the GRE website again tonight and decided that I probably need to set up a test date real quick, fast, and in a hurry. Time is starting to tick away really quickly now.

Hey-hey kiddos! It's been another week since the last time I talked to y'all. Let's see what's all occured in the last week... Amy gave the waitress my digits, I went to a Twins game with my parents, and I registered to audit a class at UW-O. There's not much of a story to accompany the first one. The second one happened yesterday, and involved us flying out on the first flight of the morning, killing a lot of time around the airport, the Twins keeping it close until they decided to put in Juan Rincon - the Twins' version of raising the white flag - and flying in late. The third part came after much encouraging by Corey. I had actually mentioned the idea months ago, but never followed through on it. Then, today, I went with Corey down to Oshkosh as he printed out his schedule and purchased books. I filled out an application with admissions, and the lady came back minutes later with an acceptance letter and a student ID number. I went and talked to the prof in his office and got his permission to join his class (which I can't make tomorrow night, so I'll start attending the following week). I also picked up my ID card right away, so now I'm all set to begin macking on young, legal freshman girls away from home for the first time and in need of guidance in this crazy, crazy world. Yeah.