Just before I left home today I turned, while putting on my shoes, and caught the sight of feet outside of the kitchen window.
The feet were enclosed within sneakers. There were a few inches of denim attached, as well.
After thinking about this very carefully for several moments I concluded that today is, in fact, Not A Wednesday, and therefore there must be a logical explanation for this. Shortly after thinking this there came a rain of decaying plant matter right outside of the window and the mystery was solved. Apparently it was "Clean Out the Rain Gutter Day" today. There was a fence of rather nice mulch around our apartment when I left this morning that was gone by the time I came back in the afternoon. I caught myself contemplating the possibility of growing some herbs in the drainage system.
My plant genetics midterm is today, and there was 23 pages of it which the TA was not allowed to handout until the professor had arrived. The professor was late for quite awhile so we all sat there for nearly the first half an hour of class.
The longest essay-type test I've had in my science classes is around eight pages and it is, coincidentally, another plant genetics class (plant development and genetics, I think, as opposed to the methodologies in plant genetics class that I'm currently in), and we had two hours to do that. The experience was not pleasant (ever tried to design an experiment, predict results, explain your results, then defend your methodologies and predictions with a clock ticking overhead?), it was a bit like trying to write an impromptu thesis (oh God. Doom).
And the professor was late. So we all sat there feeling nervous and put-upon and wishing that the TA would just pass the test out so we can get the stupid thing done with and out of the way.
My hand was cramping by the time I left (two minutes before time was up -- we get whatever was left of our two hour class period).
The test was somewhat poorly written too.
On the plus side, Dr. Berry emailed me just now to tell me that the primer has arrived and that I can go and pick it up tomorrow (PCR, here I come).
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