My Brain Already Checked Out and Flew Home

• 10 days more, from exactly 20 minutes ago, my plane will touch ground in SLC.  It's just the body following, though.  My brain is already immersing itself in mountains and rednecks.  I'm so excited! (Flights? Check.  Window seats for both legs? Check.  It's gonna be a beautiful day.)
• We all took a gondola-type boat ride down the Neckar.  It was joyful indeed.
• I purchased all the chocolate today that I will be bringing home.  And then it got smashed in my bag.  But I can't afford to replace it, so it will have to do.  I don't know whether it's any good because I got the off-brands.  Hold the thumbs! (That was a depressing chocolate tale.  Don't worry, it will probably be delicious.  Even bad German chocolate is superior to pretty good American chocolate.)
• I got the family letter, family.  Thanks!  (If anyone else sent a letter, please tell me you put my real full name.  They have no way of delivering the letter otherwise.  If not, do tell and I'll try to hunt it down.)
• My group project is doomed to failure.  Mostly because none of us care.  Next week I'm going to stand up in front of a ton of people, embarrass myself horribly and then flee the country ne'er to return.  I feel satisfied with this plan of action.  It makes it so I don't have to stress about my lack of preparation for speaking in a foreign language for 15-30 minutes in front of native speakers.
• So, according to the email I just received from the USU admissions office, they don't award scholarships to continuing students.  What the?!!!  He told me I should wait a year and enter in Fall 2012.  And what should I do in the intermission?  Work as a grease monkey in the oil field?  Shovel coal?  Be homeless?  Learn to carve designs in leather?  Open a bakery?  Okay, this is starting to sound like a plan....
• I found 5 euros on the ground tonight.  Add that to the 20 in Berlin and I've found over $30 (USD) just lying around during this trip.  Not bad, eh?