stuff

1. today is the first day of spring. and as most of you are aware, its sleeting right now and doesn't look like we'll top 50 degrees all week.
2. yay for classes being cancelled, even if you still have to go to your late one and get a test back that you (and everyone else in the class) totally bombed.
3. being broke=eating way too much pesto pasta/tomato soup with water instead of milk....sometimes i open the fridge/pantry ten times a day and think, hey, maybe i will magically see something that wasn't there before! but no. there's nothin new. i DO have three bottles of mustard, however! ha!
4. next week is my last spring break (hopefully) and also a vaycay from target. partying hard in the lou all week, i'm sure ;)
5. i spent $900 last night. it WAS on a plane ticket to ireland, but it makes me cringe still just thinking about it.

and now for something of actual merit: the city of st. louis has actually orchestrated the creation of a "mulitimodal" transit center near the current downtown amtrak station. it will connect people with the amtrak, metrolink, metrobus, and greyhound, and groundbreaking is set to take place in a matter of days on March 30th (citizens for modern transit AND kwmu article) it should be ready in under 2 years, and is going to be fantastic for this city. imagine if you were from out of town and took the train to the previous "amshack" station (today it's a bit nicer, but still it's underneath the flippin interstate on a crappy half-gravel lot). what do you think your initial impression of st. louis would be? not good at all. and you would have no choice but to take a cab to get off said gravel lot and to any other form of transportation.
i find this all quite timely, what with the looming cross-county metrolink extension (used the new forest park station last week, super cool! its huge and feels like another city!), and further improvements to boost ridership and service on amtrak (for those who also pay to read the wsj). i'm a fan of the texas eagle train myself, and i am thrilled that people are looking at alternate forms of transportation and supporting mass transit in any way.
woohoo!