currently listening to: Arcade Fire-Funeral 
today i passed the final exam to be promoted to conductor with Union Pacific. While I am done with the classroom work, I still have to finish up some student road trips over the next month or so before I offically “mark up”. Marking up means I am free to start working on my own, bidding on jobs based on seniority and whatnot. I should be getting my schedule for the next month or so shortly.
Last weekend I had a blast in New Orleans. Its like one big college town really. Last friday we had some drinks on bourbon street then some of us went to the casino and played craps. We all lost but we enjoyed free drinks for hours.
Saturday of course was the wedding which was at the historic St. Louis Cathedral. From there we paraded down to the reception (it was literally a parade, there was a brass band leading the way and everyone danced and drank champagne as we walked). The reception was at the top of some building with a nice view of the Mississippi river. there was live music and an open bar. Everyone seemed to enjoy that.
All in all New Orleans is a nice place to visit but I doubt I’d live there. I was wore out from just one weekend!
