Random story told by our agricultural economics prof this morning. Apparently his little brother was some sort of a math genius at the age of 5. One day he and his father went into the store and they had a contest set up where there were mountains of Pepsi cans stacked on top of each other, and if you guessed the correct amount you would win a supply of Pepsi for a year. Apparently his brother crawled under the stacks (since he was only a little kid) and calculated the amount using the different shapes and dimensions (it worked out to like 2 thousand something). So they won a year's supply of Pepsi. He said his father warned them that even though it looked like the cans of pop went on forever and forever, it was a scarce resource (hence why we're talking about it in class). The funny part of the story though was when he started telling us what happened to all this Pepsi. They had Pepsi fights on the front yard with all the neighbourhood kids, they used to spray it at each other, and apparently a Pepsi bath was even had at one point. What a strange story. Added to which he was getting all excited talking about it, raising his Kentucky-accent voice, reminiscing of good times with Pepsi.

Moving onto another random note. Has anyone ever been an au pair? It's like being a nanny where you go and live with the family and take care of their kids during the day. But they have an entire network set up in Europe. It was something I was looking into last year as an extension of my trip when I run out of money. I think it would be a blast.

Well my unnamed viral infection is calling me to bed. Must rest before the rage that is colloquium. I found out the other day that I'm going to miss all the U2 concerts this tour due to bad travel timing. My life may be over.

* song of the moment: Donavon Frankenreiter - Differently the Same *