*Drum Roll* please

Two very important things happened today.

*Drum roll please......*

1.  I reserved my hotel room for the AERC convention.  I've been going back and forth about whether to go or not.  I don't have school Thursday, but I have school on Friday - including a cool neuro lab where we get to bring our own dogs in for a neuro exam.  AND I have a MAJOR test (ie - a final that's worth 50+% of my block grade) on Monday and Tuesday.  However, since the convention is Friday/Saturday, I have all day Sunday to study.  Not to mention the networking opportunities for both career and personal, and a SERIOUS motivation boost for the upcoming season is just too much to pass up.  One concession I am making - I am not prebuying my tickets.  If the weather is terrible over the pass, I'll cancel the rooms and not be out the ticket price - which is worth the extra ten bucks I'll pay at the door.  Cross your fingers it doesn't snow.  And I pass my test afterwards.  And I come up with enough disposable income to buy a little something at the convention for myself :). 

2.  I bought a pair of tights.  Tropical riders, in navy blue, with a deer skin patch.  I was briefly tempted by the extended patch, but because I sleep, ride, and do yoga in them, decided that the regular patch (which is longer than a lot of other brands) would suffice.  I'm so excited!!!!!!!!  I got in ALL my rides and ALL my runs since penning them in and I'm incredibly excited to be back in the saddle.  I was SO TEMPTED to get another pair of carbon....but it just seems wrong to own 2 pairs in the same color.  :) 

So....WHO WANTS TO GO RIDING??????????????  AND WILL I SEE YOU AT THE CONVENTION?????????? 

Because somehow those 2 important questions are a FAR bigger priority than how the autonomic nervous system works and all that pharmacology terminology that whizzed right over my head in the last couple hours.