Aurum est Sapientia.

Jun 07, 2007 21:53

I'm doing well in Latin! I mean, I have a huge scary quiz tomorrow, but I got 100% on my last big scary quiz. At this rate, I'll know Latin in no time. I am really liking the class. I woke up today really really exhausted because I only slept like 3 hours (I forgot 24 hour Claritin D makes my heart race and keeps me up, so I felt really messed up and wired and crappy all night and couldn't sleep) so my mom offered to drive me today, which I took advantage of. I'm glad I did too, because it was prime-time-news-worthy windy out across Colorado. Mom and I saw lots of tipped over vehicles and an accident. Lil scary. On the plus side, the wind whipping through the grasses made the hills look like a rolling green ocean, which was very beautiful. So yeah class was good. I got a lot of my problems right, which made me feel wise.

My internship went well today too. Finished up the Gordon Chappell file, and made the report thing up for it and I think I really impressed Leigh. I hope so anyway. After getting my feet wet I was entrusted with much a bigger file of older and more delicate documents - John E. Hill. It just came in to the museum recently, so I went through it, read all the letters and figured out all the genaeology from the family records, looked at military papers and deeds and pensions and a wedding certificate all concerning John E. Hill. Guess where he lived? IOWA! I was so happy to see places like Des Moines and Pottawattamie county and Council Bluffs, etc. Oh Iowa! (The reason his personal papers and letters etc ended up in Colorado is that He served in the Colorado Volunteer Cavalry and lived in "Denver City" for some time. Anyway, these papers were really fascinating, and it took me awhile to get it all chronologically straight and figure out who these people were. I especially liked the deed he wrote to his wife (like an old check) for "One and no/100 (and my love and affection!) Dollars" to "Caroline Hill (my wife!)" people were cute and romantic even in the 1860s... I don't know if a bank would take a check if I made it out to Casey as "fifty (plus kisses and love!) dollars." Anyway, good day. I love the acid free folders. I love most folders though.

Driving back up Colfax while hungry for dinner was hard because I passed a delicious looking Taqueria, Jimmy Johns, GOOD TIMES, Perkins, and a wide variety of other places I was dying to stop and eat at. I also decided that when Izzy comes out I'm going to take her and Sammie to Casa Bonita - neither have ever been! que horrible!

Weird: I really miss the almond soap at Anomy. It had an after-smell of wine I always thought.

Nice good chat with Casey made the rest of my day, but now It's time to study hard, and hit the Latin books. Tomorrow's FRIDAY!

This next bit is Copied and Pasted into my LJ from Julia's, because you all should share the outrage I felt when I read it. Julia writes -
Read an article about how so many women are denied reproductive healthcare because of doctor's religious beliefs. You hear a lot about pharmacists not dispensing the morning after pill and stuff, but it's freaky that doctors themselves can deny basic medical care... like denying an adoption physical (one you need to prove you are healthy enough to adopt a child) because a woman was unmarried. EXCUUUUUSE ME? We're allowed to discriminate against UNMARRIED WOMEN now? Oh well that just makes it all better. And also there are doctors who will not prescribe birth control... for seriously... in this day and age. Or they deny fertility treatment to lesbians. For serious? It is crazy. Healthcare is healthcare, and women's reproductive healthcare falls in that realm. How come it is the only aspect of healthcare to be soooo morally charged? Oh right because vaginas are SCAAAARY! Or not. Anyway, if a doctor isn't going to do their job, they shouldn't be a doctor. I probably wouldn't be a physicist if I didn't "believe" in gravity, but luckily I have the faith.

internship, food, latin

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