weekend, etc.

I'm going to a concert in St. Louis tonight at a venue called "The Pageant". The band is The Decemberists, one of my favorites, so I'm very excited about it. I'm going with 4 other people from Prin who all like the band as well. It says "no cameras" on the tickets...we'll see about that. We're going to have dinner in the city too, so extra fun right there. The best part is I have to get up at 5:00 AM tomorrow to go on a field trip for my Bio-Block classes. We're driving to the southern tip of Illinois, where the Cache River meets the Ohio River. It's a rare combination of ecosystems, where 5 different physiogeographic regions meet. We're going canoeing in a swamp, meeting with an ornithologist to talk about warblers he studies that migrate to this park area in the summer and down to Venezuela in the winter. We're camping out Sunday night too, cooking our own food and sleeping in tents. Should be lots of fun. I'm loving my major and bio block a whole lot. The classes are super interesting, the teachers are really fun and engaging, and also very available outside of class, a new feature compared to U of Illinois. I've become very interested with the idea of pursuing post-undergraduate education, possibly jumping immediately into Ph.D. work after I graduate from Prin. We'll see!