Settling Well in Knoxville

So it's been about 3 weeks now since Timmy and I have moved down to Knoxville, and it's been a splendid time already! We've attended an Irish festival and a country music concert. Yes, I said country music, but it was a very good concert. Sugarland was a great opening act, but Keith Urban was the one that shook Thompson-Boling Arena (UT's basketball arena, which is an excellent venue). He was so good that I bought my first country album today, which was the album that he released this year (Defying Gravity)!

As for school, classes haven't been taxing thus far. We're into our third week of classes already. I have my research topic, which is a neat one. It's called highway cost allocation, which involves coming up with a fair and rational way of splitting up the cost of rehabilitating, repairing, and/or building a highway among the vehicle classes (passenger cars, two axle trucks, etc.), which are the people who use the highway.

This weekend's going to be an excellent one! Annette's coming in on Thursday morning. Timmy, Annette, and I have tickets to see Sara Evans on Friday. And Saturday's going to be a glorious day. The three of us have tickets to see the season opener for the Volunteers football team, where we'll be in a stadium that holds over 100,000 people!!! Not only do we have some football action at noon in Knoxville, the Hokies will be on national TV against Alabama. I'm hoping for a big win here since it'll be against a top 10 team.

Until later, keep out of trouble folks!