Great week

This has been a very exciting week for me, in many respects. I got a bit of work done, both in school and out, over the course of the week. For my thesis, for example, I met with a resource librarian who gave me some potentially useful advice. I also started meeting my freshmen for peer advising, which is going well.

Then on Friday my parents came in for the big Michigan week. Or, at least, they tried. They were scheduled to arrive at 2 on Friday, but the weather was terrible (it has rained here almost nonstop since Thursday and won't stop until Tuesday), so they kept getting pushed back. Eventually they flew to Chicago, but they chose to rent a car for a day and drive in to South Bend. They arrived around 6:15, and we went back to their hotel. It was the same one that we stayed in three short years ago when little Jamie was moving in to Dillon Hall for the first time. That was a quick three years.

We ate Friday dinner at Ruth's Chris in Mishawaka, and they stayed back at their hotel while I went to bed before Midnight Drummers Circle. I woke up at 7 AM on football Saturday, and we returned the rental to South Bend airport. After that we went to American Pancake house, and discovered the best breakfast place in the area. Delicious apple pancake thingy. So good we went back this morning.

And the game? It was wet, and it was awesome. ND beat Michigan 35-17 in a surprise beatdown, not the anticipated cripple fight. So much excitement among the fans and the team. It was probably the best win I've been to as an ND student (that or UCLA 2006). I'm really excited for next weekend and Michigan State.

And then today the Panthers were on here and they beat the Bears! What a weekend!