Yesterday was the All-Campus Party at the Memorial Union, and a lovely day it was for it, too. I sat in the sun on the Terrace and listened to Kadence and Phat Phunktion. Between the sun, the music, the boats on the lake, all the people, and the smell of grilling food, it was quite a giddy experience. After Phat Phunktion, I went inside the Union and noodled around for awhile.

The 75th Annual Student Art Show was going on in the Porter Butts and Class of 1925 Galleries. Lots of good stuff being shown, and like the Gallery Night experience, it made me nostalgic for my days in art school. I had a piece in the show myself, back in 1999.

By the time Arrested Development was playing, at 10pm, it had gotten rather cold and extremely crowded. I stuck around for another hour, and then decided to head back up State Street to where I had parked. It was early enough in the evening that though there was a certain amount of public drunkenness, it was still at the lowest degree, where most everyone is jolly and buzzy. The real obnoxiousness doesn't tend to start until after midnight.

One more note: I used the cities new "Pay-On-Foot Station" to pay for parking. It could turn out to be a very convenient thing, but last nigt it was just a pain. The signs that are posted throughout the ramp indicated that the Pay-On-Foot Stations were the only way to pay, when in fact there was a cashier on duty. As a result, I had to wander about in a dark parking structure by myself, looking for the payment station, when in fact I could have been safe and snug in my car, rolling towards the cashier booth. They need to iron out a few kinks in the system, methinks.