New Bikes on Campus

North Central College, where I am taking my grad classes, has purchased 20 refurbished classic looking red bikes and given them to students. All students. All the bikes have locks with the exact same combination so if you see one on campus and want to take a ride you are welcome to. It's kind of like the bike program at University of Wisconsin - Madison. The seats are kind of high which makes getting on with a backpack kind of a challenge but the ride is oh so smooth. It's a nice little surprise to walk out of a class and see that you can take a bike ride home instead of walking.

If I Were Rich...

I would subscribe to these journals, quarterlies, magazines, etc...
When would I find time to read them though?

1. The Paris Review ($40 / year -> 4 issues)
   
2. * McSweeney's ($135 / year -> #2-4 on list)
   
3. Wholphin
4. The Believer
5. The Virginia Quarterly ($32 / year -> 4 issues)
   
6. * Cabinet ($32 / year -> 4 issues)
   
7. Tin House ($19.95 / year -> 4 Issues)
   
8. Indiana Review ($28 / 2 years -> 4 Issues)
   
9. Alaska Quarterly Review ($10 / year -> 2 Issues)
   
10. The Kenyon Review ($40 / year -> 4 issues)
    
11. Ploughshares ($24 / year -> 3 issues)
    
12. the tiny ($12 / issue)
    
13. The Threepenny Review ($25 / year -> 4 Issues)
    
14. n+1 ($28 / year -> 2 issues)
    
15. National Geographic ($34 / year -> 12 issues)
    
16. Five Points ($20 / year -> 3 issues)
    
17. Creative Nonfiction ($29.95 / 4 issues)
    
18. * Foreign Affairs ($32 / year -> 6 issues)
    
19. Third Coast ($24 / year -> 2 issues)
20. X-tra ($24 / year -> 4 issues)
21. The Gettysburg Review
22. Shenandoah
    

* = already a subscriber

(Just jotting them down somewhere for the future - unless you want to order a couple for me, lifetime subscription preferred)

Sitting in Oliver

Went to pick up Oliver today from the car-fixer only to find that the car hadn't been fixed.
Things still wrong:

1. The convertible top wasn't installed correctly
2. The wax job was horribly streaky
3. Two dents on the quarter panels
4. Flat left front tire

Awesome.
They've had the car since 9/08/07 why not let them keep it a few more days...