We're still on the subjunctives in Latin. Annie has informed me that it's likely that I'll be dealing with subjunctives for the rest of my Latin career (which, admittedly, will not be very long). Having being banged over the head with yet another use for the oh-so-popular mood, I'm convinced that Latin involves too much subjunctives for good sense. I have to own up, though, that it is nice to deal with a language that is mostly symmetrical (i.e. unlike English).
Today is my first experience of sitting through 10 minutes of a bio lecture with no clue of what was going on. I did not enjoy the experience. I STILL have no idea what the professor was referring to when he was talking about complements I and II. Lamda phages? Fine. Lytic cycle? Fine. What was the logical link between that and complement tests and where on earth did he get the alleles from? It was aggravating. I think I'll have to read through that part of the book again and there is no doubt that, as interesting as I find biology to be, all the bio textbooks that I've not had the fortune of being able to avoid reading are mind-bogglingly boring. There are interesting texts out there, but it seems having interesting reading might be breaking one of the fundamental rules of science classes. Or something.
It is over 90 degrees today and I spent almost three hours in the green house. We did some planting and some blocking. Mike left an avocado pit in the bowl of Erythrina coralloides seeds, probably (make that most likely) (make that "just") to see what kind of reactions he'd get from people(and you know science is taking over your mind when you kept thinking Avogadro when you meant to think about avocado). He also labeled the bowl with a yellow sticky note, proclaiming the E. coralloides seeds (orange-red bean-like things, very pretty, by the way) to be "magic beans which'll help you do better in math"...again, probably just for the heck of it. Needless to say that made me think of Mike Reynolds and amused me for a while.
We had to throw away the Eriobotrya deflexa (i.e. green loquats, I think), because the previous generation germinated while they're being stratefied (i.e. while they were still in the fridge. I adopted one because, of course, I cannot bear to just throw a entire block of perfectly good plants away. Jen let me kept another one because she was sympathetic of the plants so now I've got two more plants added to the collection on the balcony.
The avocado pit? I stuck it in the garden plot when I went to water it. I wonder if it'll grow.
And then a ladybug flew into my head.
Is this type of updates too much detail?
1 comment:
Not too much detail, but too much in a foreign language, if you know what I mean :P
It was in the 90s here too. I got to campus at 9:30 and it was already stifling hot x_x But luckily I didn't have to be in a greenhouse, oy!
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