I had two pieces of good news in class last night: 1. There are 3 other people in my class that work at NASA (yeh for study-buddies!) 2. There is no homework.

After class, I had two hours to kill before meeting up for Kennda's birthday bash. Since dinner was going to be in downtown Houston and I was already up there (at Rice), it didn't make sense for me to drive home and then turn around and come back.

So, I went to the Galleria Mall, which is probably one of the coolest malls on the planet. (Seriously, it has an ice skating rink in the middle a hotel above it and takes up several city blocks) I had been meaning to go there, because they have a New York & Company, which is the source of my favorite pair of tattered blue jeans, and I was hoping to replace them (which I did, they were on sale for $15 so I bought two pairs). As I was wandering around the mall, I came across a Segway store! I guess the salesman noticed me peering into the store and said "You know you want to take a ride!" so I rode the Segway all around the store, forward, backward, in neat little circles. It was awesome! I was a Segway speed demon.

My other good news is the amaryllis that I thought died an untimely death when the cat got it actually bloomed! You see the cat chewed up the plant, but before throwing it out, I cut off the unbloomed flower and put it in a bowl of water. There were three huge pink flowers (I'll e-mail a picture from my camera phone later) and we just put it in this teeny-tiny shot glass vase.