Wednesdays--a full Wednesday with labs and in-between studying and lunch right outside of the chem labs--are going to feel very long, for the rest of the quarter.
On the other hand, I was reading a book on Brancusi (an artist) today (while eating lunch) and there was an section on his most famous work, called the Bird. It turns out the subject matter (the IS class is studying practices in contemporary art) traces its beginning into folklore and mythology and the bird is a variation from "the Golden Bird" (what I did for storytelling in lit, last quarter, for IS), which is a variation of the Romanian folktale of the maiastra bird, with origins in Egyptia's Ra and Osiris and ties all over the world in stories such as "Andila de Custivei" in Arsenia, Zhar-ptitsa in Russia, Ptak Ohnivak in Czech, Garuda of Hindu mythology and even the pheonix from the Pseudo-Baruch mythology (taken from the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, which I read for my fall quarter IS class). The list goes on and on and the geek in me is deeply thrilled. Unfortunately this took place, as mentioned before, right before chem, so whatever excitement I harboured for all of fifteen minutes was lost in a Greek-accented explanation of Hess's Law and an overdose of tryptophan.
Shower, and then more reading. Also, feedback about working at Plaza Sweets--"I've got chocolate" can mean very different things.
Getting people to try stuff is fun though, and the banana-cream pie was very good.
[edit 18:04]
Work schedule sorted out. Effective starting April 14th.
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