I won two dollars in the PA lottery but it was not enough to buy my love.

Next big hollywood hit?

Today I saw my first fair crasher!

Perhaps should have thought something was strange about the man handing out flyers near my table, but things were too busy to really pay attention. I DID pay attention when I had front row seats to the part where the fair organizer confronted him and then threw him out. Scandalous!

Why does megabus have wifi if you can't look at hulu, Netflix, or someecards? What else is the Internet for???

Student city

Fair yesterday: two blocks from my hotel.

Fair today: two block from my hotel in the other direction.

Why can't all colleges be this conveniently close together? Or at least the ones that I visit.

Also of note would be the frozen yogurt bar across the street from my hotel and open until midnight and the hippy (yuppie) restaurant that served me pumpkin-apple cider bisque for dinner last night so good I would have bathed in it.

Next up, my first visit to the highly acclaimed Wawa "Food Mart"!

This b&b might not be haunted

But my hostess is DEFINITELY a (friendly but slightly crazy) cat lady, and I am again the only guest.

Someone should fire me from booking hotels. NOTE TO SELF: cheap B&Bs ... CHEAP FOR A REASON! a friendly, slightly crazy reason.

Though I AM in the middle of farm country/the woods/ minutes from the aerodrome! During the summer, I could probably have seen the Red Baron from my window.... If only.

Maybe I'll start a prevention campaign.

No one should ever (EVER) have to set an alarm for 3:45am.

WHY DO 4:30 TRAINS EVEN EXIST? why????

New suitcase. This one matches my aura better, I think.

Update: Just saw that I missed a voicemail from the extremely overzealous manager from my last car rental.* After profusely apologizing for the state of my vehicle (smoky, not Illinois), he let me know they adjusted my bill to give me a 50% discount. I got that Fiat for less than it costs to rent a bicycle! (Has anyone ever thought of renting bicycles instead of cars? That sounds like a fantastic travel adventure.)

I am staying at my aunt's house, which comes complete with 4 cats. One of these is a tiny 3-month old rescue kitten named Jack. Jack likes to pounce on me when I sleep. They don't have those at La Quinta!

Today's visit was stop two on the Ingulli-McCord Family College Tour. Stop one: sister's alma mater. Today: the University where my parents met. Up next: my old stomping grounds (Hipster College). What nostalgia!

URGENT: On TV right now: Dr. Phil segment called "Majoring in Failure."

I need to get a lotto ticket ASAP! Do you think luck is different in the city than upstate?! It seems like they should count as two different states.

*Evidence for this judgement: when waiting in line, heard him say to the new guy who had put someone on hold because he didn't know the answer to a question, "I don't want people to feel like we're Comcast or something. That's not our kind of service. Please don't put people on hold."

10 things I hate about you, my Chevy Aveo rental car

I hate the way you beep at me,

and the way your bumper is scratched.

I hate the way you drive,

I hate it when your vents refuse to support my GPS holder.

I hate your dumb roll-down windows,

and your stupid non-automatic mirror adjustment.

I hate you so much every time I get you I want to cry,

and yell at the Enterprise sales lady.

I hate the way your blinker sounds,

I hate it when I have to manually lock every door.

I hate it when you get bad radio reception,

even worse when don't get any at all.

I hate you when you’re not around,

and more when you are.

But mostly I hate the way everyone else hates you,

so much that they don't take care of your either,

and that you are always the saddest car on the lot...

I hate that I never want to get you,

not even close…

not even a little bit…

not even at all.