Day 127 - Tressel
Jordan came back to Leiden, and I got to break the news to him that Jim Tressel had resigned. It's hard to really describe what the end of the Tressel era means to me - he's been a tormentor for most of my life, and an evil genius, and to see him go out in flames is pretty satisfying. All the "he's the greatest man in the world this a shame" crap is ridiculous - he's a cheater, he's been a cheater at every program he's been at, and he will always be a cheater. This presents Brady Hoke with an opportunity to reshape the Michigan-OSU rivalry in his first year, which is astounding. It also looks like Pryor is done, which is tremendous news. A very good day in sports news.
When I met Jordan in town we went to Eazie and spent a good amount of time there. He wanted to spend more time in town before going back to the Swamp, but I honestly don't remember what happened between Eazie and going back to the Swamp, so we'll pretend like something awesome happened that I'm forgetting about. We might have sat in a town square a while.
We chilled the rest of the evening, awaiting the Pryor news, reading the SI article, etc. We watched Juno again, which I realized is pretty bad. The dialogue is an absolute disgrace and coloured the entire viewing experience negatively. Jordan and I argued about this.
Day 128 - Rachael!
Rachael was staying in Breda with a friend of her mom, I think, and came to Leiden to hang with me and Jordan on the last day in Europe for the both of them. We kind of just wandered around town, soaking in the atmosphere, seeing some of the sights like Pieterskerk and De Burcht. We ate at Jacketz, which was more filling than I ever remember it being, and later got coffee and spent at least an hour and a half chatting at that coffee place behind the International Office that I've never remembered the name for. It was awesome to see Rachael again after Copenhagen, and some of my most favorite memories from Leiden will be chilling with friends from home.
There is a definite feeling that when you go abroad you're sullying your experience if you maintain too much contact with home, but the internet has definitely enabled me to maintain near constant contact with a lot of people, and I don't regret it. It might have resulted in less of an effort given to make friends here, but I'm satisfied with how things have turned out, and if anything it just reminded me how much I love my friends from home. I have one more month left, and while I'm not in a rush to go home, it'll be so amazing to see my buddies again.
Day 129 - Cadieux Warmup
Woke up early and escorted Jordan to the train station, and he successfully made it onto the plane in time (funnily enough, Jordan and Rachael were on the same flight back to DTW).
I've been working on my application for Michigan Law, which is coming along just fine. The more I work on the application the more I convince myself there's a chance I'll get in, which is probably bad, because I'm probably not going to get in. The cool thing is that I'll know a decision by July 19, which is like, 7 weeks away. In 7 weeks I'll get one of the most potentially life-changing emails ever, presumably. Kinda neat.
I went to Einstein's one last time for the pubquiz, and teamed with Andy and two Dutchmen, the result was never in doubt. We cruised to victory, in what I'm terming a tune-up event for my triumphant return to the Cadieux sometime this summer. Spent a bit more time at Einstein's afterward, but it was again super crowded, and I bounced with Chase and Dani back to the Swamp to chill for a while. After they left I started watching the NHL finals, but fell asleep pretty early on. Cool story, brah.
Day 130 - Peace, Leiden
I haven't done much of anything today. Weather's great, which is nice. More Law school application work. Got word I can make some money immediately upon my return with GEAR UP, which is awesome, so that's good. I Skyped with Mallika (she'll get mad if I don't mention this HA!). This has been it. Ready to go to Ireland and meet up with Adrian tomorrow and kick off travels.
Thanks for reading. I'll try my best to be in contact while on the road, so email me like usual (or Facebook) if you've got any pressing needs to talk to me, which you definitely shouldn't.
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