RURAL JEFFERSON AGAINST ALL

I always wanted to know the reason why the boundaries of the American states are so perfectly shaped...couldn't think of the strange procedure through the so called new land was grilled in such a way...! Well, thanks professor Hales, everything is perfectly clear now!!!
That's just an anecdote of what's going on in this SUSI 2009 seminar...full of anecdotes which are minimal in extension, but terribly meaningful and, once again, I gotta turn my eyes to etymology and remember that that is the exact meaning of the term in old Greek...
One day more in the lives of the Susinians (thanks mate for the term) and Literature keeps on playing the important role Chicago plays in Dreiser's Sister Carrie...I guess all feel a little bit like that 18-year-old girl coming to town for the first time and being impressed by every single corner of this new place to live at...I'd say that shopping would constitute the perfect bribe for myself but, unexpectedly enough, I haven't been that naughty ... yet!!!
Anyway, huge thunderstorm at lunchtime (Nature keeps on warning of its presence) and huge walk downtown going from Michigan Av. to Oak St., the Lake front, Milton Lee Olive Park, Navy Pier and back to Michigan Av. The walking team is back!! although our feet seem to be more and more exhausted but ... who knows? we might get a prize or something for the most active walkers in SUSI 2009!!!
Dinner was a big debate until I bumped into a picture of Benningam's Guiness Glaze Bacon Burger...that was the end of it all... hey, listen! (I said) join me or leave me, but I'm heading that gourmet's treasure RIGHT NOW!! Previous visit to restroom (just mention this to include those tv screen right above the urinaries, gosh , that's glamorous!!!) and belly filled with the most delicious burger and the most astonishing Guiness beer sauce on earth...
Back home with no more options that popping into the computer lab and telling you all (is there anyone out there?) one more day has gone away...
Just one last thing: I saw this girl on the bus wearing this UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA sweatshirt and all my childhood and youth came in front of my eyes...I must admit I felt a bit homesick but Neil's bookstore tour and the promise of finding new treasures took me back to reality...this time I won't eat'em, this time I'll read'em
Warmest.

Javier Barbero