Tuesday, Aug 2

Tuesday: Work? Same, thanks goodness. However, upon returning from class I was told that one of the other graduate students that is also working with my project wouldn't be back for a bit, which was inconvenient because she was the one that was supposed to be showing me various things around the office. The reason for her delayed arrival was that her parents were in a pretty bad car accident in Washington state. She had to fly up there immediately the previous weekend.

Even though she has 5 siblings, they can only take a small amount of time to visit before having to return to their regular lives. My coworker, therefore, is going solo in the responsibility of being the family representative. She's been given power of attorney, sits with her parents during the day, and even takes part in feeding them. A pretty rough requirement for anyone. Here's hoping things improve soon.

While waiting for my 2nd bus (stadium to classroom route), a different route bus arrived. After a quick glance I noticed this bus, too, passed by my building so I hopped aboard. Despair set in when the bus continued its travels further and further away from my building. It was then I realized the route direction for this bus was counter-clockwise around campus, while I had thought it as clock-wise. The result of this was that instead of my stop being the, say, 4th stop, it was the 4th stop from the very end of the loop.

A lovely addition was traffic, since the bus passed in front of Ruby Diamond Auditorium, and the 4-way stops around there are ideal breeding grounds for traffic snarls, yielding a beastly delay and animal-like driving behavior (too many animal-term usage in that last sentence, if you ask me). Luckily, I have swift feet and long legs, and managed to get to class less than 10 minutes late. A good way for the first day of that class to begin. I appeased the professor by challenging the largest male in the class to a death match, and besting him in the blood-thirsty Paperclip Impalement Ritual. Good times.

Classmates and subject matter are getting a little muddled at this point. So much of my course material overlaps into other courses, and anywhere from 50-75% of the students in one class are also in other classes. Once everything settles down I can take full advantage of both of these situations.

Tuesdays are, apparently, trivia night at Bird's Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack. Megan from school invited us, so we went. I've only been to Bird's once before, for a Sarah Mac Band show, but in my opinion this was more entertaining. Every seat is usually taken, and participation in the trivia is free, and lively. The questions are certainly challenging, which reminds me that whenever I want my ego dropped a couple of notches down, I should attend a trivia night somewhere. Nothing like trivia night to remind me of my lacking knowledge in sports, pop knowledge, television, and geographic comparative facts between US states.

Not a bad Tuesday, I suppose. The week seems increasingly long already, and I am referring to events that happened on Monday as if I've been performing them for weeks, as it feels like I have. All part of the changing lifestyle, I suppose. Let's keep it going for now, shall we?