My little brother is in town. He has the day off from school tomorrow and we figured he ought to visit sometime while I’m still a student here, so we’ll entertain ourselves tomorrow and attend the basketball game Saturday and take the same flight back to Minneapolis on Sunday (I’ll be en route to D.C.)

Today we got ice cream at Ferdinand’s with our grandparents and then he observed the newsroom for a while. He’s a junior in high school and works at the paper there. He said he was most surprised about how much work actually goes on here.