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Actually did make it home to see parents, so YAY for that. Mom made a pork roast and a venison roast and steamed vegetables. It was very tasty.
Dad made me a copy of the new Indiana Jones movie, too, which we watched this afternoon as only a family of scientists and archaeologists can - with lots of snark and picking apart the physics-ly impossible stunts. It's still a fun movie, though, and I'm all yay for having a copy of my own now even if it is a VHS recorded off of a medium quality burned DVD (the movie is too long to fit on as high quality. Darned DVD limitations).
I also brought home a bag full of rocks. The people in my Mineralogy class keep bringing in their cool rock samples, and it is kind of kicking my butt to maybe attempt to organize my own collection. When I was younger (probably between the ages of 8 and 12 or there abouts), every year for about four or five years in a row (before the annual Rock, Gem and Mineral show settled in Marshfield) it was a tradition of mine to pick up one of the $1 Grab Bags of random rocks that some of the booths were selling. I would look through each grab bag once, and then they sat pretty much untouched in my room for 10-15 years. Well, now I have all the rocks and most of the labels (either I lost the labels for one year or they never gave me any in the first place) here with me in Point and my intent is to actually get them set up in a display or storage box of some sort and actually, you know, *organize* them to some degree. Probably not any time soon, but you never know. YAY rocks!
Lastly, parents also handed me two checks for quite a bit of money from Gramma. I'm not entirely sure she planned on giving me that much, so I'm going to call her before I cash either of them, but either way I have enough money to cover rent for one more month (and possibly two if she did, in fact, mean to give me both checks and not just one; she's having a bit of trouble remembering things these days, so yeah...), so that's one less thing to worry about. My grandmother is awesome.
In other news, we have the first test in Glacial Geology tomorrow. Will have to set my alarm earlier so I can study tomorrow morning (cause at the moment I'm tired enough to seriously be considering going to bed. Before 10:30. Wow, I must be getting old).
...Wow. I'm actually using my journal to summarize my day. That hasn't happened for awhile.
Dad made me a copy of the new Indiana Jones movie, too, which we watched this afternoon as only a family of scientists and archaeologists can - with lots of snark and picking apart the physics-ly impossible stunts. It's still a fun movie, though, and I'm all yay for having a copy of my own now even if it is a VHS recorded off of a medium quality burned DVD (the movie is too long to fit on as high quality. Darned DVD limitations).
I also brought home a bag full of rocks. The people in my Mineralogy class keep bringing in their cool rock samples, and it is kind of kicking my butt to maybe attempt to organize my own collection. When I was younger (probably between the ages of 8 and 12 or there abouts), every year for about four or five years in a row (before the annual Rock, Gem and Mineral show settled in Marshfield) it was a tradition of mine to pick up one of the $1 Grab Bags of random rocks that some of the booths were selling. I would look through each grab bag once, and then they sat pretty much untouched in my room for 10-15 years. Well, now I have all the rocks and most of the labels (either I lost the labels for one year or they never gave me any in the first place) here with me in Point and my intent is to actually get them set up in a display or storage box of some sort and actually, you know, *organize* them to some degree. Probably not any time soon, but you never know. YAY rocks!
Lastly, parents also handed me two checks for quite a bit of money from Gramma. I'm not entirely sure she planned on giving me that much, so I'm going to call her before I cash either of them, but either way I have enough money to cover rent for one more month (and possibly two if she did, in fact, mean to give me both checks and not just one; she's having a bit of trouble remembering things these days, so yeah...), so that's one less thing to worry about. My grandmother is awesome.
In other news, we have the first test in Glacial Geology tomorrow. Will have to set my alarm earlier so I can study tomorrow morning (cause at the moment I'm tired enough to seriously be considering going to bed. Before 10:30. Wow, I must be getting old).
...Wow. I'm actually using my journal to summarize my day. That hasn't happened for awhile.