And then, there's a bearded fetus.

i know this isn't going to make you feel any better, but when i left, gas was $2.28 at the cheapest station I could find. Ouchie. I know it won't make you feel any better, because I know that in Europe they pay the equivalent of like $5 a gallon, but dude, they *have* public transportation alternatives that work effectively. We don't. So we're stuck paying it without an option. And I still get canky handing over my $2.28 and going, um, is the loan check here yet?

Which I suppose is my way of saying that I feel your pain.

RE: Loyola and the Jesuits. Dude, the Jesuits are cool. No, really. They've always had this totally iconoclastic streak of telling the mainline, less liberal Catholic church to fuck off. The Jesuits are one of the most relentlessly intellectual religious organizations I've ever seen anywhere, and as far as I can tell they generally embody most of the good shit of the Catholic church with very little of the bad. And Jesuit schools have that streak in a big way. They often end up as not the kind of Catholic school you'd think them to be. ::shrugs:: Just a thought.

Hope you guys have a good day.