Errands can be fun.

Yesterday had to be one of my most productive days in a long time. The number of things that I accomplished between when I woke up at 9 and when I left the house to see friends at 7:30 is incredible. It makes me wonder how I functioned working 9-5 every weekday, because a lot of what I accomplished had to be done during normal business hours, or was made significantly less annoying because I was doing them during normal business hours.

First of all, I called my lender for my UT student loans. Having been lucky enough not to have to deal with loans as an undergrad, this is uncharted territory for me so I have needed a lot of coaching. Apparently I now have two additional bank accounts to handle my loan money. One is with the "loan servicer" and one is a savings account with University Federal Credit Union (UFCU). The woman at UFCU told me that my loan is "dispersed" on August 19 and will go directly to UT, which will deduct my tuition, fees, etc. from that amount. Then they will reimburse me the remainder of my loan and (I'm almost certain of this) charge me a FEE. So not only do I have to call someone to tell them what I want them to do with that money, when I tell them what account I want it in, they charge me to put it there. Ridiculous. Anyway, figuring all that out and realizing I didn't actually have to do anything yet was accomplishment number 1.

Next, I dealt with GEICO which was surprisingly easy. My car insurance is $30 cheaper per 6 months now that I'll be living in Texas. Excellent.

I applied for a change of address with the United States Postal Service and while I have generally been happy with the USPS in my life, I don't quite understand why they need to charge me $1 to "verify" my address change. Whatever, it's $1.

Next on the agenda was reading the last bit of the stat work I started the night before. Check.

Rachael and I then drove to Catholic so she could be productive and buy her Law School books and hole punch her European sized paper from her Polish classes. And let me take this time to talk about how very happy I am that I am not going to law school. Those books do not look fun. Even a little bit. I used to laugh at Nicole for going "ooooo yay!" when she had to read books about Yellow Fever, but at least they had interesting covers. My books will most certainly not be hardcover embossed leather with gold writing. They look like something out of Sherlock Holmes' personal library. Very un-fun.

Next was the fun part of the day, which involved us going to have lunch with Peggy and Kate (Office of Undergraduate Admissions bosses/friends). It was weird being back on campus during the summer, seeing all of these kids going on tours. They look unbelievably young, which is to be expected since they are all 17 or under. It was also odd to walk into the Images office that Rachael and I (and the rest of our friends) essentially lived in for Summer 2006 and not know any of the kids working there. But we aren't that old because there were still pictures on the walls that were taken in both of our apartments.

Next was a trip to Kinko's ($50 to print out the rest of my stat reading) and Jiffy Lube ($50 for an oil change during which they topped off the washer fluid brake fluid, radiator fluid, checked the tires, vacuumed the interior, and washed the windows. I also received a receipt for a free car wash.

After a stop at Giant for supplies I got back to Rach's and baked a cake and made baked ziti for dinner. We then brought the cake to Charleton to say goodbye to the boys who are leaving for Alaska this morning. In blue icing on top I wrote "Please don't die in Alaska!" but by the time we got there, it just said akljeafija lsd fja Alaska!