I keep trying to go and visit the greenhouse, but it's never open when I'm there so, fed up with that (still got to visit the field though, since I have the lock combination), I finally emailed the teacher and requested a schedule for when it's going to be open. We'll see what happens.
Also coming to the realization that none of the oranges in our DC ever have seeds. EVER. My first reaction, being cynical, was "oh they probably are worried that we'll have trouble with seeds and then will choke on them and will sue them or something." My second reaction, after a moment of though, was to realize that maybe it's just because the DC wants to make our lives easier because most people hate having to spit out seeds whilst eating a nice fruit. Two choices about what to think, no way to prove it and so what a person thinks and feels depends on what he/she decides.
I've been very lucky with the oranges though. No sour ones yet. Which brings me up to the contination of my on-going war against the strange things that are still up on the marigold.
While watering them yesterday, I was talking to Krista, and we were discussing the sad state of my plants (being attacked by pestilence,etc.) and to show her what I was talking about I took out my reg card and pried off two of those bugs from the marigold to show them to her, she took the card, stared at them, then turned to David (i.e. one of the 2 guys taking over our lounge) and says, "Hey, David, you want a friend?"
David, who has been more less keeping a tab on our conversation, inquires, "Why?" He then thinks about it for a moment and asks, "Is it because all my friends are ugly, is that it?"
My reaction: "..." There is very little I could've said at that point, since I know almost nothing about him beside the fact that he plays the guitar and is taking over our lounge.
Krista has a reply ready though. She handed the card back to me, looked at him, and says, "No, it's because you're ugly."
Me? I left with my reg card to wash off the bugs. Ugly little critters that they are.
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From this point on, for everyone who's still following this and LUNATICS, please ignore my work schedule as posted in LUNATICS. I'll just post my shifts as they come and if no new posts show up about them, assume I'm still working then and there. This weekend I'm working:
Today: 17:30-20:30
Sat: 10:00-13:00 (training, this Sat only)
13:-14:30 (training, the rescheduled one, also this Sat only)
16:30-21:30
Sun: 16:00-21:30
With another bio midterm (which really ought to be called a quarter-term, since we have 4 of them) next Monday, which is why I'm done with all of my homework for the weekend (except studying, obviously) already.
Speaking of schedules, I have to register for my spring quarter classes next Monday. Yessirree. Have to decide and plan out schedule already and they don't tell you when the final is for each class until the classes actually start, but once again, we'll see.
And first jobs aren't usually this...chaotic. It depends a lot on where you work, in my case my coworkers agree that yes, here you'd have to figure out what's going on yourself because no one else tells you. In which case I really have only my own ineptitude to blame. Working in a library for instance, is a lot easier, but the library doesn't accept first-years as employees. Like most other campus jobs.
Mother still reminding me about internships. I looked. Plant-bio, being plant-bio, means field work. The first two internships I saw, one's in Virgin Island and the other's in Ecuador and mother probably was thinking something like Davis-lab work. Which probably exists, but I'll need to ask professors about it. Imagine her reaction, though. Out of country internships. AHEM.
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