Seatriscuit.

Sorry for my lameness in posting. It's not that I haven't wanted to, but rather that I haven't really had easy access to the internet in a while. I just keep moving around. So, while I was in Baltimore a couple days ago, I'm now in Minnesota. Again. And probably for the last time in a really long time if ever.

While I'm not going to bore you with every minute detail about Minnesota (again), I'm going to tell you an uplifting tale about the triumph of the human spirit. So, my first night here (the day before yesterday), Jamie and I went to Gameworks which is basically a HUGE arcade and bar. It's senior week at Carleton, and it was one of the activities planned by the deans: everything was free 'cept for drinks.

While there, Jamie and I played some crazy horse derby game which actually consisted of 12 different consoles and one giant one in the front of all of them. So, on all the separate consoles, all the players are controlling their horse, and on the giant one the horses are all racing each other. Each player has to breed horses to come out with the ultimate colt -- ours was sub-par ("naughty and hard to control") and pretty freaking slow, but we loved little Zorro anyway. Then you had to train your horse and develop a good relationship with it, feed it, etc. When it's ready for a race you can race it and win money. The whole process takes a long long while...we were probably there for forty minutes or something.

Frankly, Zorro sucked. He finished last or near last in every race -- slightly improving with each race, but still a far cry from glory. In our final race of the night, little Zorro was the 11th favorite (out of 12...it should be noted that #12 was in her first race). Of course, we won. Zorro overcame adversity and all the taunts of the other horses and jockeys and made them all eat his trail of dust. It was glorious. I wanted to take a picture of our horse in the Winner's Circle on the GIANT screen, but was too busy gloating.

And then we ran out of credits and they turned Zorro into glue. (Not really).