Loans and Lemonade

This is my second full day in Pittsburgh. At present I am recovering from a 10 mile bike ride about the city. Some places there are bike paths; on some roads they are absent. According to my brother's observations on a recent walk through Crossgates, I am too heedless of danger. He couldn't believe that I kept walking on the road instead of moving into the grass when cars went by.

I have finally got my loans finalized, so the first term's tuition will be paid as soon as they are disbursed. I feel like I'm gambling and hope that I'm making a wise decision, not wasting time and money. As I started out on my bike ride, several young boys manning a lemonade stand on my street solicited my business. I told them, "Maybe when I come back!," so when I returned, hot and tired, I stopped by their card table. They had 3 sizes of plastic cups. I settled for a "large," which got me 10 ounces of icy lemonade for $.75. Capitalism lives among the young! They said they'd made $24.00 so far.

I wonder how many people will come out here to visit me in the course of the next year (August to August)? I predict, for the record, that no more than 4 people, not to include my parents, will.