Tetris and the Irish

I have been a huge Tetris fan since I was around 10 or 11 years old. Currently, I have a free version on my computer called Sporktris, and my boyfriend Danny enjoys teasing me about my obsessive nature when it comes to this wonderful, finger-aching, time consuming game. I love leaving one column open, building up the rest, and then knocking out four rows at a time. Not too many people know that doing it this way gives you more points than getting rid of the rows one at a time.

Today was a big Tetris game for me.

For the past week, Danny and I have been talking about visiting Notre Dame. We want to go so that we have a weekday and a weekend day at ND so I can get a tour and visit the Creative Writing Department while they are open on a Friday and, of course, so we can see a football game on Saturday. We went back and forth about what weekend, tried to figure out what tickets to get and see if we even had enough money to take a trip before Thanksgiving (yikes!) It didn't look like it was going to work. My work couldn't guarantee I could take off work during the week before thanksgiving... plane tickets were priced ridiculously high due to it being the weekend before a holiday... football tickets were non-existent... and hotels in South Bend are priced at $200 a room due to it being a home game weekend.

But then today happened, and everything fell in to place. Not even just the things we were hoping for, but circumstances far beyond my personal hopes. My parents are giving us a free ticket, knocking out $350. We found INCREDIBLE tickets online, and this kind man knocked a huge chunk off of the price because Danny's grandfather is an alum of ND, saving us $100.

Danny's best friend has a "really cool aunt" living in Chicago (where we are flying in) that is going to let us stay with her zero dollars, getting rid of what could have been $250-$300 in hotel costs. We might also get to use their car (still in the works) which would save us another $100 on renting one. Lastly, Danny's brother is in the Naval Academy, and ND will be playing Navy on the 7th, a game that all students at the Naval Academy get to attend. We will not only get to see his brother Jordan, we will get to spend much needed quality time with him. Danny is also going to help me study for the GRE on the plane, because the test is the day after we get back! (CRAZY!!! hahaha) Plus, I will probably get to visit Columbia College Chicago, which is my number 2 graduate school choice, for an hour or so.

It's like all of the little blocks, the blue L shape, the pink backwards L shape, the red Z shape, the yellow backward Z shape, and the orange rotatable T, were all in this weird arrangement that kind of fit, but there was something huge missing. Then the wonderful green long block graced the screen, and fell into the far left column that was still empty, and everything came together. It's wonderful. I cannot wait for this weekend. :)