Very on edge today. Not only am I suffering from severe lack of sleep but I talked to my dad today. Sigh. He wanted to talk to me a little bit before I leave on Thursday. The conversation went pretty well until the end. He told me when I got back he wanted to get together and talk. God only knows what that means. Being all hormonal I immediately started to think the worst and jumped off the deep end. He told me it wasn't anything bad but with my father's past history can you blame me?! I don't know. I guess I can give him a chance at least. The man did donate half of my genes.

Starting to get unbelieveably excited about the trip. Tonight room mate Marti and I are going to a passport party at Klingers to get to know more people that will be on the trip. Should be fun. I still need to get my suitcase from my parent's house and start doing some laundry, not sure what clothes I'm taking. I know the weather forcast for the whole time we're there is rainy in the upper 40's. Imagine that, rain, in Ireland (sarcasm people). Wednesday is a day off to get my packing done and make some last minute trips to Wal-Mart, K-Mart, etc. The wardrobe will probably get finalized then.

Back to last night. After hockey some of the girls from the team, friend Colleen and I went out to the Coyote Hardware Bar to hang out and blow off some steam. Holy cow did we blow off some steam. I didn't drink that much but good Lord did I have fun! The band, Something Fluid, was pretty good. Not the best I've seen but not the worst either. At one point Jonda, Jesse and I even danced on the bar. Woo-Hoo! Mucho fun was had by all. Heck, Colleen even picked up a guy! The rule was we were not leaving until she got his phone number. Not only did she get the guy's phone number, but he took hers. Definite victory. I hope she goes out with him at least once, he was pretty hot.

Just a little bit on the whole Columbia thing. Tragic, very tragic. I was immediately thrown back to the fifth grade when Challenger blew up. I just sat there mesmerized, watching CNN yesterday. Sigh. The people my heart really breaks for are the families of the people who died. They are the ones that will need the support and help of those around them.

I better go, I have an obit story to finish and was just put on the trail of something for a follow up for a story we're working on related to the Columbia.

Again I say, I need a vacation...