Here's some things that are new with me:
-New Job: I now assist Ms. Angela Gardino with some predatory mite research. My duties include: collecting spider mites from lima bean plants to feed to our predatory mite colonies, transferring adult females onto new colony trays, planting new plants to infest with spider mites, and lots of other things. I get to use a microscope a lot, which is fun. I also get more hours and am paid 9% more.
-New Classes: I am taking an aquatic entomology class this term, which is totally fun so far. We had a field trip on saturday to a couple of wet spots on OSU experimental forest land, and got a bunch of critters from ponds and rivers, including dragonfly, mayfly and stonefly larvae, as well as some diving water beetles and giant water bugs. One guy got a water scorpion, which we thought was a stick. This all involved wearing waders and sloshing about in the creek with nets and forceps. It was pretty cold out still, but I wore 2 layers of thermal underwear and was fine. I ordered my own set of waders that evening. They should be here thursday. My other two classes, Stats and Organic Chemistry, are totally boring and I have a very hard time paying attention in them. My stats class requires this ridiculous remote to answer questions live during the lecture. It costs $53 and I have no idea why we're using it, other than to keep us watching the lecture, since the questions are worth points.
-New Socks: Yolanda got me a lot of thick warm socks for xmas and they've been great.
-New Worries:I feel like I am becoming increasingly forgetful and worrysome. I have left stoves burning on a few occasions over the last couple of months. And while I've been out, if i can't remember turning off the burners, all I can think of is the house burning down. I think that my diet has actually improved over the last couple of months, since I am eating a lot more at home (mostly curry and things that I can make at the beginning of the week and eat over the month, so its not that. Its not that I am forgetful, I just don't remember details about things I did. Did I lock the door? Did I put the dog away? Did I cover the microscopes? Did I lock the lab? It's a little troubling. I haven't really looked into it yet. I also seem to be really distracted while driving, and much wimpier at it.
-New Love for Tea: I've never really enjoyed tea all that much, but recently I decided I needed to cut back on coffee because I was going to class and feeling very, very anxious after I had a cup in the morning. Also, the coffee maker in the apartment here burns the coffee really quickly if you make a small amount, and I can't drink a pot so I was just wasting it. I got a bunch of tea from safeway and grocery outlet and its been very nice to have some variety in my hot beverages. I also found a Bodum Tea Press at goodwill for 2.99 (retail 24.99) that makes a 4 mugs worth from 2 teabags, and fits perfectly onto my electric mugwarmer, and stops steeping with a plunger, so I can make tea just how I like it, plunge it to stop steeping, and keep it hot for a while.
Some new reading: here's some new blogs that I've been reading and enjoying lately, some of them are probably well known already, I make no claims to being on the cutting edge of anything anymore as it takes too much effort and it's just not that important to me:
ikeahacker
BibliOddysey
Thinking For a Living
ColourLovers: Palletes
I hope you're well. It's been a long time since I've talked to a lot of my friends and family, but you are all still near and dear to my heart.
1 comment:
There's gotta be a term for the mental illness that is thinking you left the stove burner on. the fact that you feel this too leads me to believe it's hereditary. The fact that you actually have left them on leaves me to believe you got it worse than me. We should ask mom..like she'd remember.I got a B in drawing and almost kicked out of my band cause I'd get to school or practice and have to go home and check.
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