Downtown

I'm sitting here at AT&T plaza downtown, and it is really nice. Cool breeze, shade, fountains. And it makes me think about how there are actually nice parts of downtown Dallas. It is a shame we get to experience them so little.

I am downtown this morning for school. My A&P class is using a new edition of the textbook, and of course with this being the second half of the course, I already had the book in the now one-edition-outdated form. So I rode the train with Matt this morning to visit the El Centro library and compare the new edition (12) with my edition (11). Shockingly, little is different other than fonts and the cover picture. Now I'm armed with translated page numbers and can use my 11th edition book worry-free. Textbooks are such a scam.

And now I'm going to visit the big branch of the Dallas library just for fun. Yay for downtown adventures!

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update 12:30pm

I had a good time at the downtown library overall. Matt and I are planning a trip back to Colorado in October (because we just can't get enough), so I found five Colorado travel books to check out. Also, I got ahead in my A&P class by reading half of the chapter on the digestive system. It was hard to concentrate though, because some guy was carrying on an entire texting conversation on his non-qwerty cell phone with the keypad volume cranked up. Beep beep beepbeepbeep beepbeep beep...good lord, put it on silent! Unfortunately, a lot of the patrons at the central library scare me, so I did not have the courage to ask him to be quiet. After library time was over, I met Matt for lunch at Subway. Then I rode the train back home and here I am. I liked my downtown adventure.