"In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long ... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

(As usual, kudos if you can identify the source)

Goodbye Irwin! I drove him to the airport at 0'dark'thirty and then promptly went back home to catch an extra hour of sleep. It was a fun weekend. He made dog bark incessentally though. I got sunburned from being outside for all of 2 hours on Saturday (summer is finally here with a vengence... but our ducks still haven't hatched the ducklings yet, actually they are still mating. Did you know how violent duck mating rituals are?) On Friday night and Sunday night we met up with one of Irwin's friends (and her friends) from Rice, which was awesome. I even ventured into the city for ice cream at Amy's (like Jake's in Atlanta, but, I would venture to say, better ice cream, not as cozy a building though) and sushi. So, Joann is going to show me around Rice (since, afterall, I might be a Rice student in the near future) and we're going to go furniture shopping together. Otherwise we hung out, saw the movies (changing lanes, it was worth seeing, but not great), ate well, slept in (as usual, Irwin stayed up until the middle of the night, then complained about the air mattress because it wasn't as good as his king size bed at home, and then didn't want to wake up until 4 in the afternoon), went to Gavin's birthday party, walked around the marina a few times. The usual. It was fun, but now, back to Seattle he's gone. I will definitely have to go visit Seattle some time this summer.