I sit here at my computer, the room empty around me. Well, except for the piles of stuff I'll be taking back home. I'm surprised on how much stuff came out of this little dorm room.

The computer is the only thing left to distinguish my room from the other empty ones. My dad is of course running late, putting me in a pickle. All the shit has to go downstairs in about 10 minutes (in an hour or so) before they come and inspect my room. Kenny left this morning.

The room looks so big without all our stuff in it. So bland, so sad. A room foresaken. In an hour, I will never see this place again. My home for 9 months. I'm not sad, I mean I'm glad to be going home... but good old Bloss 710 was my first home away from home. Freshmen year was awesome.

Looks like passing some time on Beaver baseball message boards while I wait, ready to return to life back in Tualatin for the summer. Then onto a new experience... my own apartment.

Finals week... so busy... more later. I'll gush about the Beaver baseball team soon (World Series bound!).

The Senate voted it down 49-48 today.

Let's see what happened this past week? No tests or papers due... marginal weather. Guess the most significant thing that's happened is that the Beavers won the Pac-10 in baseball and got awarded their own regional to begin the post season.

Before I talk more about that, I should mention softball hosted their own regional (winning it) and then a Super Regional (also winning it). So they went to the Women's College World Series. First time in program history they've been a part of the final eight teams. Unfortunately they dropped their first two games in Oklahoma City and are now done (they played Thursday morning and then again this morning). So although that was disappointing, it was another awesome season for them.

Back to the baseball regional, it started yesterday and will hopefully conclude tomorrow. Beavers, the #1 seed, opened up against Wright State, the #4 seed in the regional. It was a rather tense game, but the Beavers ended up winning 5-3.
Pictures are here.

We watched from Dixon's third floow window (the student gym) because tickets were $10 and I didn't feel like paying that much for a game against Wright State. It went well except for the fact you couldn't hear anything (I brought along a radio so we could listen to the broadcast).

Today we planned on attending the game against Kansas but it was sold out when we got there (it was about 600 short of a sell out the day before). So we ended up standing in this area near right field with about 50 other ticketless people watching. You could see decently so it worked out.

Tomorrow we plan on going way early so we can make sure to get tickets (600 will be up for sale during the 5th inning of the afternoon game). The winner of that game plays us. They have to beat us twice to win the regional. If we just win once, we win everything. So hopefully we can close it out tomorrow. And hopefully I'll be inside the stadium for this game.

Poor guy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060526/od_nm/germany_swan_dc

BERLIN (Reuters) - A swan has fallen in love with a plastic swan-shaped paddle boat on a pond in the German town of Muenster and has spent the past three weeks flirting with the vessel five times its size, a sailing instructor said Friday.

Peter Overschmidt, who operates a sailing school and rents the two-seat paddle boat on the Aasee pond, said the black swan with a bright red beak has not left the white swan boat's side since it flew in one day in early May.

"It seems like he's fallen in love," said Overschmidt. "He protects it, sits next to it all the time and chases away any sail boats that get anywhere nearby. He thinks the boat is a strong and attractive swan."

Overschmidt said the swan will figure it out sooner or later but hopes he won't be too heartbroken.

"I'll wish him all the best and hope that he doesn't make the same mistake again," said Overschmidt."

Last week was pretty hectic. Let me give you a run-down of what I had to do:

Wednesday:
- Woke up at 10:30, went to classes until 2:00
- Came back and wrote an essay about Tupac. 5 pages.
- Got done with the essay at about 5:00 and had an astronomy test at 6:00
- Took astronomy test.
- After test (6:45ish) had lunch in the MU. Met up with a friend to study for economics midterm the next day.
- Studied until about 9:00.
- Came back to the room and looked over the essay.
- Finally relaxed for an hour or two before going to bed.

Thursday:
- Woke up at 10:30 again to turn in essay.
- After turning in essay met someone for lunch. Had lunch.
- After lunch I studied a bit with a friend who was in the class for microeconomics.
- Took microeconomics test. I thought I was screwed, didn't understand it. Think I got an A or B on it though.

So that's that. All in all I think I did pretty good on the two tests and one essay. Felt very relieved once I was all done. Felt pretty good actually, because I was like "how the hell am I going to get this all done?" and it ended up going well, so yay.

Turns out I got 188/200 on the Astronomy test (just checked). So yay.