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I'm really excited to read Freakonomics. It's a new business book that's come out that reminds me of The Tipping Point in that it isn't really about business (meaning it's entertaining to the average joe like me), and it has a lot of interesting trivia types of info. I guess the author just started studying the numbers of a lot of different things and crunched them to come to some very interesting conclusions. Here is an article about the book. I'm going to start reading it at work on Monday. I haven't been able to find a good work book recently. They all seem too involved, and I'm not in the mood for involved. I want to be able to put the book down and talk to Connie or John or Deanne or whomever I'm eating lunch with at the moment. We have some weird conversations in the lunch room sometimes, so I need to be prepared to be a part of them. However, I did start reading The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing which seems really good, and My Sister's Keeper, which also seems excellent and is currently on our trade paper bestseller list and totally pulls you in during the first chapter.

Today we are going to the Peabody Essex Museum, and then we'll probably take a walk around Salem and maybe down to the water. It's such a nice day out today, we can't stay inside the museum the whole day. I'm super excited about the Yim Yu Tang, which I saw on a Discovery Channel type of documentary a long time ago. They took the house apart in southeastern China little piece by little piece and put the whole thing together here exactly how it was. It was lived in by the same family for 8 generations, over 200 years. I also may look for a good costume to wear for the Harry Potter release while in Salem. I definitely plan on working on the July 16th release and I need to look the part. Last time I guess everyone got wizard hats that lit up. I tried to get someone who still had one to give it to me when I found out, but no one would.

The AEPi house was partially damaged at URI yesterday by a fire Friday night. No one is living there right now, but I'm rather upset by it. I hate that so many of the fraternity houses on campus have become URI owned houses that they've converted into boring things (IEP House) or destroyed (Sigma Chi, which was beautiful with all it's big Greek columns out front) in order to put up a boring alumni building. Many people know my issues with the alumni association at URI, I'm not even going there. Back on topic though, my sorority doesn't own it's house. Each time a fraternity house is destroyed or taken over, it's one less house that we will be able to take over and one day buy. I don't know how long we'll end up staying where we are, but Phi Sig used to live in our house and was kicked out for TKE to move in (for about 3 days before they were caught with coke rumor has it). Tri Sigma actually once owned the house, so maybe there is a chance TKE will let us buy it. Until something happens, our housing situation will be a concern for me. The one positive is that ZBT has just broken ground on their new house, right next to the AEPi house. They recently won The Brummer Cup, an award stating URI's ZBT chapter is the best collegiate chapter in the nation for their organization, and I was really excited for them. They exemplify the values of a fraternity perfectly.