It's Baseball Season Baby!

So the day has finally come, after months of hibernation, the Cubs are finally ready to play some real season ball. Opening day is today...er tomorrow here I suppose. Regardless, in just about 10 hours Zambrano will be throwin out the first pitch down in Houston. Sadly, I have class at 9am, which is 6pm CT Monday, five minutes prior to the start of the game. So watching it will not be an option.  I will in fact bring my laptop to class and keep myself updated while sketching and building objects out of manmade blocks. But for situations in which class will not be consuming my life, I'm purchasing MLB.TV in order to watch the games streaming live.  Of course I'll have to either go to the Tower building or maybe just across the street to Broadway Cafe for free HIGH SPEED internet, since my internet here is only about 56 kbps, which isn't going to get me anything besides gameday audio. Because Sydney just fell back in terms of Daylight Savings on Sunday, their will be some day games that will probably have to be missed seeing as it will be 4:20am here for any 1:20pm starts. I'm alright with just checking the scores when I wake up on those days. But a lot of the games will be at 9 or 10am, which works great for me since I only have morning class on Tuesdays. Hey Chicago whatya say, the Cubs are gonna win today!

In other news, Emily, Julia and I booked our flights to New Zealand for June. I'm really stoked, we got really good flights too, $130 round trip to Christchurch, which is on the South Island. Next step is booking the Contiki tour, but just waiting for Dad to pay off some of the credit card bill... :) The tour is from June 10th to the 16th, so we're flying down on the 9th and then flying back early the 18th, so we've got half a day and a night before the tour starts and then two nights and day before we go back. I'm quite psyched about it. Pictures are going to beeeautiful, so prepare yourselves!

This past weekend Emily, Luke and I took a walk to Oxford St, which was fun for us since we'd never really been to that area of town besides on Mardi Gras.  the place looked entirely different in the daylight, and when it isn't full of half dressed drag queens. I actually really like it over there, its very quaint, reminds me of Bucktown or Lakeview in Chicago. The reason for our trip was burritos. I stumbled upon another burrito place, and felt it necesarry to try it and compare it to Guzman Y Gomez and Chipotle.  It was much more like Chippy, they made it in front of you and their veggies were just like Chipotle as well. I loved it. Emily still liked GYG better, and Luke couldn't really decide, but he's never had Chipotle so he really was indifferent. I know what you're thinking, never had Chipotle? I was at a loss for words too. But apparently the only Chipotles are right in Boston, none in the outskirts near his house or school. Bummmmer. I've already decided that is where I will be going the minute I get back to Naperville. Don't judge, you would too.

So recently, Emily and I have been watching Season 1 of The OC. I have one disc left, three episodes, and I go to find the last disc and its nowhere to be found. The case isn't either.  The DVDs were being swapped between my room and Luke's like a child of divorce, since Emily and I were sharing them and she was further behind. So when the case and discs went missing, we searched both rooms from top to bottom. And let me remind you my room is the size of your shower, so there aren't really too many places to hide. Luke's isn't too much bigger either. We tore them both apart, and alas, nothing. So we assume that we must have returned the case on accident without one of the discs, thinking it was an earlier set of discs. Blockbuster says we still have it out. This is madness, madness! It is nowhere to be found! My guess is when they looked on the computer they saw we still had it out, but I'm thinking that it is somewhere at Blockbuster not returned because it was missing a disc. So I'm planning on going back tomorrow to check again. Otherwise, I suppose I'll be buying some DVDs.  Lame.

TV here has been rockin' lately. Biggest Loser is starting to get super intense! I'm getting upset when people have to go home, but then so happy when I see how much progress they've made since being kicked off. Wow. I'm ridiculous. I've become one of those people! But it is literally on every single day, so it's something we all watch together. So technically we're all lame.  And something I'm incredibly excited about: Master Chef Australia! It's their version of Top Chef. And the fact that Top Chef is one of my favorite shows back home, I just about peed my pants when I saw the preview for this. People asked me what was wrong when I gasped and started screaming! And last night Shawshank Redemption was on TV and tonight was Father of the Bride Part II, two of my favorite movies. Love it. And speaking of movies, a couple of us may go see Monsters vs. Aliens tomorrow night  in 3D at the IMAX, which is actually the biggest IMAX screen in the world. Don't be too jealous friends, it is $25. And that flippin exchange rate is getting worse by the day. I'm not happy about it! At least I've got a job lined up for when I get back, for Apple no doubt. Love those guys. 

Two more days of class left. Then 19 days off. Or maybe even 20, I may have the Monday we're supposed to go back off due to a national holiday. My professor wasn't sure if we got it off or not, he's letting us know. Either way, it's a lonnnng break, and definitely needed.  I know that probably sounds ridiculous since I'm in Australia, but school seriously is taking over my life! I can't wait to just kick back and relax and wake up early and watch Cubs games.