Looks like a Sugar Maple to me
It's my senior year and I still haven't quite got this studying thing figured out. My first exam of the quarter is Monday (in physiology), and instead of studying I've been surfing the internet wasting precious time. Fanfiction.net will be my ultimate downfall, I just know it. While a great majority of fanfic writing isn't worth reading, there are some really talented authors out there who know exactly what we rabid fangirls want to read and give it to us with a heaping side of mashed potatoes and gravy. Curse you, obsessive fangirl Megan!
So it seems Autumn has finally come.
This morning I had to be on campus at 7:30am for my Conservation Biology class. That in itself was enough to make me hostile, especially since I had tickets for today's OSU game versus Kent State at 12pm. Our professor made no guarantees that we would be back in time for kick off; I considered skipping, but a missed field trip means a missed field entry, which means a lowered field notebook grade...so I went.
Anyway, We traveled to the Highbanks Metro Parks to survey an old forest (species richness of trees), and it was so flippin' freezing that I couldn't feel my fingers the whole time. I had on three layers of clothing, but I couldn't find my gloves. Not only was I cold, but our professor is both HIGHLY unorganized and, pardon my french, fucking clueless. No kidding. He didn't seem to know or understand his own procedures, and so we wasted a ton of time hemming and hawwing, trying to figure out exactly what we were supposed to do. I could feel my blood pressure rising by the minute, especially when he told us off for wasting time. Pardon me, but WE weren't the ones stopping to identify every single tree we came across. WE weren't the ones who chose to make a side trip to the wetlands to do a little bird watching. Now these things are all very well and good, and as a zoology student I am interested, but NOT when we are on a tight time schedule and have a shit ton to do and only a little bit of time in which to do it.
I have a feeling we weren't very scientific in our surveying, especially since by the end of the morning my group was calling every tree a Sugar Maple. Somehow we managed to get everything finished in spite of our inept professor. Fortunately he's a really nice guy; it would be easier to bitch about him if he was a jerk, but he does seem to genuinely care about conservation biology. Plus, he did drop off those of us off who had game tickets close to the stadium. I arrived in my seat RIGHT at kickoff - the timing couldn't have been more perfect. We (Michele, my friend and roommate, and myself) only stayed through halftime, because I am supposed to be studying and she had plans to travel south to visit her grandma and go horseback riding with Horseman's Association. I had planned on going horseback riding too...that is, until I found out about this stupid exam. Bah.
And so I'm sitting here in my living room, in front of my heater, with lit candles and a bit of Pink Martini playing lightly in the background, trying to find the inspiration to study. Kidney function, however, just isn't that appealing to me at present.
In other news...I am HUGELY disappointed because I can't find anyone to go to the Madeleine Peyroux concert with me, and Nightwish is coming to Cleveland to perform on a WEDNESDAY when I have classes. I am so, so sad. :_(
I actually just received my preordered copy of Nightwish's new CD in the mail the other day, and I am THRILLED with it! Anette, their new lead singer, is fantastic! This CD is definitely going on my list of all-time-favorite CDs. Is it so strange that I like a Finnish Symphonic Power Metal band? XD Seriously though, you should check out their single Amaranth, because not only is it a fantastic song but the music video is gorgeous. Nightwish songs are extremely poetic and take a bit of interpretation, but that's one of the reasons I love them so much. "Amaranth", I believe, is about the fall of Lucifer (Amaranth = Lucifer):
Baptized with a perfect name, the doubting one by heart alone without himself.
War between him and the Day, need someone to blame-
In the end little he can do alone...
I don't quite agree with the message ("Caress the one, the hiding Amaranth"), but it is still an awesome song. It could have numerous interpretations, but that's the one that sticks out the most from the music video. Anyone have any other ideas after viewing?
If anyone is curious, here is Nightwish with their previous lead singer. Tarja's style was much more operatic:
Nemo, by Nightwish - This happens to be another of my favorite Nightwish songs.
Alright, the length of this post clearly proves that now I'm just procrastining. No one probably gives a damn about my eclectic musical taste...
Back to kidney function. GR.
So it seems Autumn has finally come.
This morning I had to be on campus at 7:30am for my Conservation Biology class. That in itself was enough to make me hostile, especially since I had tickets for today's OSU game versus Kent State at 12pm. Our professor made no guarantees that we would be back in time for kick off; I considered skipping, but a missed field trip means a missed field entry, which means a lowered field notebook grade...so I went.
Anyway, We traveled to the Highbanks Metro Parks to survey an old forest (species richness of trees), and it was so flippin' freezing that I couldn't feel my fingers the whole time. I had on three layers of clothing, but I couldn't find my gloves. Not only was I cold, but our professor is both HIGHLY unorganized and, pardon my french, fucking clueless. No kidding. He didn't seem to know or understand his own procedures, and so we wasted a ton of time hemming and hawwing, trying to figure out exactly what we were supposed to do. I could feel my blood pressure rising by the minute, especially when he told us off for wasting time. Pardon me, but WE weren't the ones stopping to identify every single tree we came across. WE weren't the ones who chose to make a side trip to the wetlands to do a little bird watching. Now these things are all very well and good, and as a zoology student I am interested, but NOT when we are on a tight time schedule and have a shit ton to do and only a little bit of time in which to do it.
I have a feeling we weren't very scientific in our surveying, especially since by the end of the morning my group was calling every tree a Sugar Maple. Somehow we managed to get everything finished in spite of our inept professor. Fortunately he's a really nice guy; it would be easier to bitch about him if he was a jerk, but he does seem to genuinely care about conservation biology. Plus, he did drop off those of us off who had game tickets close to the stadium. I arrived in my seat RIGHT at kickoff - the timing couldn't have been more perfect. We (Michele, my friend and roommate, and myself) only stayed through halftime, because I am supposed to be studying and she had plans to travel south to visit her grandma and go horseback riding with Horseman's Association. I had planned on going horseback riding too...that is, until I found out about this stupid exam. Bah.
And so I'm sitting here in my living room, in front of my heater, with lit candles and a bit of Pink Martini playing lightly in the background, trying to find the inspiration to study. Kidney function, however, just isn't that appealing to me at present.
In other news...I am HUGELY disappointed because I can't find anyone to go to the Madeleine Peyroux concert with me, and Nightwish is coming to Cleveland to perform on a WEDNESDAY when I have classes. I am so, so sad. :_(
I actually just received my preordered copy of Nightwish's new CD in the mail the other day, and I am THRILLED with it! Anette, their new lead singer, is fantastic! This CD is definitely going on my list of all-time-favorite CDs. Is it so strange that I like a Finnish Symphonic Power Metal band? XD Seriously though, you should check out their single Amaranth, because not only is it a fantastic song but the music video is gorgeous. Nightwish songs are extremely poetic and take a bit of interpretation, but that's one of the reasons I love them so much. "Amaranth", I believe, is about the fall of Lucifer (Amaranth = Lucifer):
Baptized with a perfect name, the doubting one by heart alone without himself.
War between him and the Day, need someone to blame-
In the end little he can do alone...
I don't quite agree with the message ("Caress the one, the hiding Amaranth"), but it is still an awesome song. It could have numerous interpretations, but that's the one that sticks out the most from the music video. Anyone have any other ideas after viewing?
If anyone is curious, here is Nightwish with their previous lead singer. Tarja's style was much more operatic:
Nemo, by Nightwish - This happens to be another of my favorite Nightwish songs.
Alright, the length of this post clearly proves that now I'm just procrastining. No one probably gives a damn about my eclectic musical taste...
Back to kidney function. GR.