My continuing search for employment has finally paid off (pun intended). I interviewed for a weekend news radio job...and I got it! I'll be doing newscasts and weather on Saturday afternoons for KGMI 790 AM. (Alan: any hints for a beginner?)

In totally unrelated news, the last three nights of sleep have been glorious. I have a futon matress and the frame folds up into a couch, but lately the frame has developed a slight bend in the middle. Quite annoying. So I took apart the frame and put the futon on the floor and the rest is in dreamland.

Continuing with the random updates: I have officially started my last quarter of college and I think it's going to be a blast. I couldn't have asked for a better schedule -- no class Fridays, one class on Mon/Wed and nice three-hour lunch break between two long classes on Tues/Thurs. I actually have time to reclaim my social life and get back in shape. I can climb at the Rec Center between or before classes; I have time to schedule interviews; I'm no longer spending 45 minutes (each way) driving to my internship, thus saving me $45 dollars a week.

Ike -- who is going to invent some new dinner meals