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Sometimes I forget how dull plain USA grocery stores can be. I've had this point covered in class even, multiple times (agriculture & ecology, floristics, in case you're wondering). Somehow the colors and shapes can still distract me enough that occasionally I forget 90% of the stuff you'd find in your local equivalent of Safeway is derived from something like only seven ancestral species (e.g. cauliflower, radish, mustard greens of any kind, broccoli, all Crussiferae). Then I'd go to a different grocer's which, in my case, is frequently Asian, and I'd get things like taro and caltrop. I dithered for about five minutes in front of the tray this morning, because although I like to eat them but I'm pretty sure that I don't have the time to eat them right now(the shell requires both fingers and teeth and will likely result in smudges on my homework if I try to do both at the same time -- not as multitask-friendly as carrot sticks). The same thing did happen the other time I got taro. I ended up having to throw them away. It was very sad.

I did finish both papers I have to read for Monday, with the sheets perfectly clean. I'm not entirely sure I understood the bit on chemical engineering (they all have guanines, all the R groups are hydrophobic, I can't tell what other electrostatic what-ever-you-cal-its are important) but that's the way it goes. One of my classes is going to start the unit on heart diseases next week, so hopefully that'll be interesting (and will no doubt involve NFkB, because it is everywhere and involved in everything).

I also (finally) finished season one of Due South today, bring me to: 1) ouch...I mean, nice, but the progression to darker themes is apparently not a linear, but exponential scale and 2) this show's got the most awesome soundtrack ever. The fact that I know who Ray Kowalski is shows up at odd moments, when I'd wonder what he'd do in such and such scenario. Mostly I just feel bad for Ray Vecchio. A lot. And then spend half an hour mulling over Truepenny's analysis of the episodes (that's her lj username, google it and read her meta under "due south" tags if you haven't already, Lucy) which continues to be insightful without being dense. I feel like it rounds up my Due South experience very nicely.

Next up? Pushing Daisies. Going to get caught up on that.

Starting next weekend.