I have maidenhair in my hair. Hee hee! :D I am going to be very regretful to leave the greenhouse . . .
I am feeling much better today. I was having some problems toward the end of the weekend, but I talked them over with my two psychiatrists, Andy and Moog, and got through it. :) Yay for having awesome people around!
I have a paper due soon. That is what I should be writing instead of this blog post. And yet, I continue to write this post. Typical.
There's not really much else going on. This weekend will hopefully involve some reverse trick-or-treating around campus (you dress up and hand out candy) and maybe even some Harvest Party helpin'. I have to go and see Grapes of Wrath this Wednesday at the Intiman Theatre. I'm not as excited about this one as I was about Last Train to Nibroc, which was really good. :)
I think the spider mites on Parry may finally be on their way out. We'll see if she can pull it off before she dies for the winter as I think she might.
It was good to see my family and friends this weekend, and especially good to see my sister. Even with a wedding shower over and done with it's still hard for me to believe that she's getting married. I even ordered my bridesmaid dress. :D They're cute and brown and strapless. Very Bethany. Well, I think that's all for now. I should finish unpacking from the weekend and clean up a bit before Laura arrives (she went home for the weekend too) and work on my paper and take a nap . . . sheesh. That's a lot for a Monday. Oh well. I'll be blogging more soon.
The Nutty Novice
It's me, happy!
Monday, October 24, 2005
Friday, October 14, 2005
I should wash my hands . . .
Guys, I should wash my hands. I have dirt under my fingernails from working in the greenhouse and my fingers are a little tingly from getting some benzoic acid on them this afternoon while taking a melting point. I am contaminated . . . I also have a broken nail from pulling books off the shelf. Looks like it's going to be a hard quarter for my poor hands . . . And also my desk corner is filthy. I need to find, as my dad would say, a "place for everything." I have less space than last year but it also seems that I brought more stuff . . . I may have to invest in some more storage-type things.
Now that I am done confessing my hygienic shortfalls, I'll tell you a bit more of the news. I am coming home for the weekend of the 22nd, but only Steve will be with me. Andy's going to stay up at the apartment so Dan can come and see him and it. :) I'm sure they'll have lots of fun.
Oh, and the big news right now is that I have TILLAMOOK CHEDDAR CHEESE! XD I'm so happy! Between me and the other five girls in my close circle, we've already eaten more than half and I just got it on Wednesday or Tuesday! :D Hooray for being able to have my favorite snack food in my room! Hooray for having an industrial strength KitchenAid cheese slicer! Freshman fifteen here I come! ;)
Mark still hasn't talked to me again since he asked me to send him my schedule. I'm thinkin' I won't be working there this quarter. But, I'm going to try to talk to him tonight at work just to make sure. I wouldn't really mind, actually as even though it was a fun job I never really felt like I was much use. :\ I'm no Andy. ;)
I haven't been attending as many CFE events as I should be . . . life in general is getting in the way. I'll have to remedy that pretty soon here. The quarter is going by more quickly than I'd like to think. Okay! I'm going back to nomenclature homework now!
The Contaminated Character
Now that I am done confessing my hygienic shortfalls, I'll tell you a bit more of the news. I am coming home for the weekend of the 22nd, but only Steve will be with me. Andy's going to stay up at the apartment so Dan can come and see him and it. :) I'm sure they'll have lots of fun.
Oh, and the big news right now is that I have TILLAMOOK CHEDDAR CHEESE! XD I'm so happy! Between me and the other five girls in my close circle, we've already eaten more than half and I just got it on Wednesday or Tuesday! :D Hooray for being able to have my favorite snack food in my room! Hooray for having an industrial strength KitchenAid cheese slicer! Freshman fifteen here I come! ;)
Mark still hasn't talked to me again since he asked me to send him my schedule. I'm thinkin' I won't be working there this quarter. But, I'm going to try to talk to him tonight at work just to make sure. I wouldn't really mind, actually as even though it was a fun job I never really felt like I was much use. :\ I'm no Andy. ;)
I haven't been attending as many CFE events as I should be . . . life in general is getting in the way. I'll have to remedy that pretty soon here. The quarter is going by more quickly than I'd like to think. Okay! I'm going back to nomenclature homework now!
The Contaminated Character
Monday, October 10, 2005
Incoherent Tales of Life
I watched When Harry Met Sally for the first time tonight. It was pretty cute, I guess. :) It was fun to watch with the other girls. And also Meg Ryan is quite adorable. We got pillow fight attacked by a couple of freshman tonight. It was quite hilarious. They knocked politely. "Come in!" we said. So they then proceed to rush in and pelt us with pillows. So glad they knocked. :P
Then after the movie was over Laura and I went out with Christine and Susan to look for some mysterious "mist" that they saw, and we ended up running around in the leaves and skipping and giggling in a particularly loud, and I'm sure obnoxious (to other people) manner. We randomly decided to visit Christy and Melissa in Hill, and we also visited Lydia in Ashton which was fun. I hadn't visited her room yet. Mine is still messy and half-complete. Boo . . . But we are working on the CD's. And I don't know what I'm going to do with the curtians. They are doing their darndest trying to get off the wall. . . . I really have no idea what that expression is honestly supposed to mean. :)
There's one plant in the greenhouse that I most particularly wish I could photograph for you all (The mailing label for sending in my batteries still hasn't arrived. I tested Steph's batteries in my camera and it worked fine.) Anyway, this plant was weird-looking enough to begin with. It resembles a cactus with fleshy spines. And the first time I saw it, it had long vines sticking off of it that ended in hollow tear-dropped shaped pods bigger than my fist. The whole plant is a kind of bluish gray-green, and just slightly furry. But . . . the plant apparently morphed into some kind of altered alien state over the weekend. The pods have bloomed open into five-pointed star flowers that are excessively hairy and white with red spots and smell like rotten fruit. (Although Dr. Nelson informs me that they are supposed to smell like rotten meat. Flies for pollinators and all that, you know.) Anyway, it freaked me out when I saw these flowers with a five-inch diameter and a hunger for human flesh. ;)
Dr. Nelson and I also transplanted the banana tree today. Well, I should say that Dr. Nelson, Dr. Bartlett, and I transplanted the banana tree today because it took all three of us. :) It was quite the endeavor, and I was pleased to learn that the whole banana plant smells like a banana. ;) (Some leaves were broken in the process.) So it all turned out fairly well and Dr. Nelson assures me that the plant will tip back to normal eventually. ;)
I have a quiz on the nomenclature of alkanes tomorrow. Shouldn't be too hard. I get to take in a notecard with whatever I want written on it. Yay for that. :) I was supposed to be at a meeting tonight, October 10th at seven PM in the CE building room number six for some information on the Harvest Party, but the doors of the building were locked (I arrived five minutes late) so I don't know what was going on there. It basically turned into a gas trip which was okay as that location is the only Arco gas station that I know of in the area and I am a cheapskate.
Here's a heads-up for the Yakima folk. I'll be coming home for the weekend of the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. My sister's wedding shower is that weekend. XD Still doesn't seem like this should be happening . . . I will be dragging Steve along with me, and possibly Andy depending on homework.
The two group presentations I had today went fairly well. We had one presentation in my theatre class where we had to analyze a children's book. Our group chose The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. It's a story with an evironmentally-minded moral. We decided to do the presentation in rhyme. Jessica rhymed the other parts that people sent in, but I rhymed my own. It was fun and the presentation was cool. :) I was slightly disappointed when the part that Jessica had written wasn't entirely in iambic pentameter, but it was good.
The second presentation was on the play Last Train to Nibroc which our class will be seeing on Wednesday night. We all sat in a train configuration and it worked out nicely. It was kind of stressful trying to get two group presentations together at once, but it's also nice to have them both over and done with.
The other things that I would like to take pictures of are my binders. We had a decopauge (sp?) night the other night and I made a science notebook for O-Chem (mostly plants with what few science-like things I could find in the girly magazines thrown in) and a theatre notebook (formal, but slightly funky. It has books, a balcony, a little girl in a boa and a wishbone on it.) :D
Okay, that was a really long, incoherent post. I should do this in short spurts, but I guess I'm still getting back into the swing of things.
The Overflowing Orator
Then after the movie was over Laura and I went out with Christine and Susan to look for some mysterious "mist" that they saw, and we ended up running around in the leaves and skipping and giggling in a particularly loud, and I'm sure obnoxious (to other people) manner. We randomly decided to visit Christy and Melissa in Hill, and we also visited Lydia in Ashton which was fun. I hadn't visited her room yet. Mine is still messy and half-complete. Boo . . . But we are working on the CD's. And I don't know what I'm going to do with the curtians. They are doing their darndest trying to get off the wall. . . . I really have no idea what that expression is honestly supposed to mean. :)
There's one plant in the greenhouse that I most particularly wish I could photograph for you all (The mailing label for sending in my batteries still hasn't arrived. I tested Steph's batteries in my camera and it worked fine.) Anyway, this plant was weird-looking enough to begin with. It resembles a cactus with fleshy spines. And the first time I saw it, it had long vines sticking off of it that ended in hollow tear-dropped shaped pods bigger than my fist. The whole plant is a kind of bluish gray-green, and just slightly furry. But . . . the plant apparently morphed into some kind of altered alien state over the weekend. The pods have bloomed open into five-pointed star flowers that are excessively hairy and white with red spots and smell like rotten fruit. (Although Dr. Nelson informs me that they are supposed to smell like rotten meat. Flies for pollinators and all that, you know.) Anyway, it freaked me out when I saw these flowers with a five-inch diameter and a hunger for human flesh. ;)
Dr. Nelson and I also transplanted the banana tree today. Well, I should say that Dr. Nelson, Dr. Bartlett, and I transplanted the banana tree today because it took all three of us. :) It was quite the endeavor, and I was pleased to learn that the whole banana plant smells like a banana. ;) (Some leaves were broken in the process.) So it all turned out fairly well and Dr. Nelson assures me that the plant will tip back to normal eventually. ;)
I have a quiz on the nomenclature of alkanes tomorrow. Shouldn't be too hard. I get to take in a notecard with whatever I want written on it. Yay for that. :) I was supposed to be at a meeting tonight, October 10th at seven PM in the CE building room number six for some information on the Harvest Party, but the doors of the building were locked (I arrived five minutes late) so I don't know what was going on there. It basically turned into a gas trip which was okay as that location is the only Arco gas station that I know of in the area and I am a cheapskate.
Here's a heads-up for the Yakima folk. I'll be coming home for the weekend of the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. My sister's wedding shower is that weekend. XD Still doesn't seem like this should be happening . . . I will be dragging Steve along with me, and possibly Andy depending on homework.
The two group presentations I had today went fairly well. We had one presentation in my theatre class where we had to analyze a children's book. Our group chose The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. It's a story with an evironmentally-minded moral. We decided to do the presentation in rhyme. Jessica rhymed the other parts that people sent in, but I rhymed my own. It was fun and the presentation was cool. :) I was slightly disappointed when the part that Jessica had written wasn't entirely in iambic pentameter, but it was good.
The second presentation was on the play Last Train to Nibroc which our class will be seeing on Wednesday night. We all sat in a train configuration and it worked out nicely. It was kind of stressful trying to get two group presentations together at once, but it's also nice to have them both over and done with.
The other things that I would like to take pictures of are my binders. We had a decopauge (sp?) night the other night and I made a science notebook for O-Chem (mostly plants with what few science-like things I could find in the girly magazines thrown in) and a theatre notebook (formal, but slightly funky. It has books, a balcony, a little girl in a boa and a wishbone on it.) :D
Okay, that was a really long, incoherent post. I should do this in short spurts, but I guess I'm still getting back into the swing of things.
The Overflowing Orator
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
~Sleepy Smile~
I am invincible! Bwa ha! Heh. I guess the advertisers just don't like me. Or they haven't found my blog yet. We'll see which it is eventually. I'm going to resist turning on the word verification until they strike first. Guess I'm being a pacifist. ;)
Anyway, school's been going well. I hit my head in the greenhouse today, but other than that it was fun times as I spruced the place up. It's actually looking rather spiffy at the moment as I just shopvac-ed it. :) I am also very sleepy today, so we'll see how my shift at the library goes.
I got my curtains up last night. They look okay, but they still need some fluffing. I would be up doing it right now if I wasn't so sleepy. I almost killed myself putting them up last night. :) Stepping on binders and jumping off counters . . .
I still have leftovers in the fridge from Red Robin. I should probably eat those soon . . . I guess that's one of the hazards of having a fridge. :) Andy and I had a nice visit this weekend. I don't know if we're going to be able to have one this weekend.
My room is messy and disorganized, I need to do laundry, I have sewing to do and the CD's still haven't been put up on the wall. School has been keeping me too busy/distracted (with the busy part being the less fun parts and the distracted part being those more fun).
I'm going to be getting a mailing label from Energizer so I can send my batteries and charger in for "assessment". So we'll see how that goes.
Parry is struggling with the spidermites again. I think I'm going to take her on a visit to the greenhouse tomorrow and spray her with some water to get them off. If that doesn't do it, I may have to ask to use some of Dr. Nelson's horticultural oil. It's supposed to work pretty well and the stuff that I have obviously doesn't . . . I also need to ask what his policy on tours of the greenhouse is. I suspect that his policy is that he has to be present, which would be sad. :\ My friend Susan really wants to see it.
Laura and I put up a quote board in our hall. They are fun things. As it says on the board, it's "A place to write silly things that people say out of context." Someone misunderstood and put up a movie quote, but there are some good ones up too. My favorites are me saying, "What are you doing? Where is your loincloth?!" and my room mate Laura saying, "This is like masochist popcorn."
Well, until later silly things. I hope my camera is functional soon so I can take pictures for you.
The Sleepy Stumbler
Anyway, school's been going well. I hit my head in the greenhouse today, but other than that it was fun times as I spruced the place up. It's actually looking rather spiffy at the moment as I just shopvac-ed it. :) I am also very sleepy today, so we'll see how my shift at the library goes.
I got my curtains up last night. They look okay, but they still need some fluffing. I would be up doing it right now if I wasn't so sleepy. I almost killed myself putting them up last night. :) Stepping on binders and jumping off counters . . .
I still have leftovers in the fridge from Red Robin. I should probably eat those soon . . . I guess that's one of the hazards of having a fridge. :) Andy and I had a nice visit this weekend. I don't know if we're going to be able to have one this weekend.
My room is messy and disorganized, I need to do laundry, I have sewing to do and the CD's still haven't been put up on the wall. School has been keeping me too busy/distracted (with the busy part being the less fun parts and the distracted part being those more fun).
I'm going to be getting a mailing label from Energizer so I can send my batteries and charger in for "assessment". So we'll see how that goes.
Parry is struggling with the spidermites again. I think I'm going to take her on a visit to the greenhouse tomorrow and spray her with some water to get them off. If that doesn't do it, I may have to ask to use some of Dr. Nelson's horticultural oil. It's supposed to work pretty well and the stuff that I have obviously doesn't . . . I also need to ask what his policy on tours of the greenhouse is. I suspect that his policy is that he has to be present, which would be sad. :\ My friend Susan really wants to see it.
Laura and I put up a quote board in our hall. They are fun things. As it says on the board, it's "A place to write silly things that people say out of context." Someone misunderstood and put up a movie quote, but there are some good ones up too. My favorites are me saying, "What are you doing? Where is your loincloth?!" and my room mate Laura saying, "This is like masochist popcorn."
Well, until later silly things. I hope my camera is functional soon so I can take pictures for you.
The Sleepy Stumbler
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