So I’ve been back and forth from the ‘midji lately, which has been quite nice actually. The grass is green, the birds are chirping, and there are no more homeworks for me to worry about (now all I have to do is wait for grades to be posted, yikes!)!!! Everyone, I have been having fun. I get to laze around all day while Alex is plugging away at grueling software engineering finals, I get to watch lots of cable TV and eat at Wally’s with Alex’s friends (which they all like to complain about but I think is kinda cool because I dont get to do these things at MCAD… It’s like I’m in REALL COLLEGE!) And on Friday we went to a BBQ at one of his professors’ houses in the middle of nowhere. Marty had the wonderful foresight to ask if i needed any special food items, so I got delicious portabello veggie patties while everyone else had to eat regular old fatty BEEF patties. HA! They dont know what theyre missing… And there was also this delicious dark brew beer there (this, from Alex, because I didnt want to ask for a beer because I didnt know if he’d be okay with that… everyone else seemed to be at least 21 years of age. Thats okay, I had a root beer…). ANYWHO… look at these LABELS!!

Not only does TommyKnockers Brew apparantly taste good, but come on, these illustrations are GREAT! And if you go to the website, you can look at all of the labels, including their soda labels (which I dont think are as great, but still pretty good design for a boonies beer company… seriously, the only place they sell this stuff is like 100 miles from where Marty’s house is… he must have liked it quite a lot to go that far.) But I thought that all of you shambot-eers would like to see them, seeing as how we all tried to design some labels ourselves! Ironic!

Tomorrow we go with Nate and Tony to Thief River Falls to look at apartments for the summer. There is this one place that they really want to live, but they havent been calling the guys back to let themknow if there are any vacancies! So we plan on hustling them a little bit in order to put them in their place. More to come: pictures of the apartments/Thief River… I hope it’s cute!!