I finally worked up the courage to check my CampusFrance account this morning. Lo-and-behold, I found my confirmation to apply for my visa. This little e-mail was going to determine whether I’d wasted $400 on plane tickets to go to New York City. So far, so good. If everything goes this nicely on Thursday, I will fly home on Friday with my passport and visa. Schwing.

That’s all my news for the moment, if I get some time later I’ll get down everything about Redneck Extravaganza ‘08 - aka Downhome Country Weekend. In lieu of that, for the moment, I’ll just give you some more of my 100 things.

11. I am a “Deadliest Catch” fanatic. It really doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen the episodes, if it’s on, I’m guaranteed to be watching and I will shamelessly declare my love for Sig Hansen and the Northwestern and I will own Northwestern gear some day. Mark my words.

12. I will always, ALWAYS go for the most inappropriate men in the room. My friends always tease me, because there can be 150 guys my age in the room and I’ll go for the 45 year old. We all have our preferences.

13. I have owned three St. Bernards in my life. I’m on #3 right now, he’s five years old and his name is Dakota.

14. My favourite colour is blue, and up until recently my wardrobe was primarily blue, grey, black and white with very few other colours. I’ve turned over a new leaf and I surprisingly like it!

15. I’ve ridden horses for half my life, but never owned my own. In the course of 12 years, I’ve ridden a horse who medaled in the Olympics and trained under a woman who has had four riders of hers compete in the Olympics. I, however, will probably never get that far.

16. I have three majors and I usually explain them like this: International Relations (my love), International Business (my back up plan) and and Modern Languages (Well, I’ve taken German this long).

17. My parents are divorced, and have been since 1999. My step-dad died in 2002.

18. My favourite position in hockey is defense, and I have a weak spot for Swedish defensemen, namely Henrik Tallinder.

19. I have variations of my name as an e-mail address at gmail, yahoo and hotmail. Overkill, I know, and there is probably another M.G. out there who hates me but I need choices and my college e-mail address will only last so long.

20. For my 16th birthday, I went to New York City and while I was in the airport waiting for my flight home, I met John Mayer. Our terminals were right next to each other, so we chatted for a bit. He was really nice.