I've been parking quite a ways from the college this semester and walking, mostly because I don't want to risk any more parking tickets. Last semester, I got pretty good at learning the patrolling schedule avoiding most tickets, but one or two slipped by anyway. It was a minor annoyance, but it's not the parking tickets deterring me from choosing a closer, open neighborhood spot to park... Those annoyances I can handle. I just can't handle the calls from my father whenever the impatient UMD sends HIM seemingly bi-weekly reminder notices that I am supposed to pay the aforementioned ticket. The hassle of talking to him about it, hearing about costs of "towed cars" (after one ticket? really?), and the feeling that he really doesn't think I am capable of handling the issue without him overseeing it really bugs me though.
So to save myself that, I often opt to walk 10-15 minutes through the sub-zero Arctic Circle terrain that is Duluth, to get to the school. This may have something to do with why I struggle with attendance, but that's beside the point.
Anyway, on to the point of my story (there is one, I promise)...
