2012, a tuesday
Tired all day due to neighbor-related sleep deprivation. Astronomy, rushed home to run errands before sed/strat lab. REI for IceTrekkers, Target for Aquaphor and a new mechanical pencil, Office Depot for filler paper with reinforced holes. Lab was pretty good, even though I really didn’t want to go back out in the cold for it. Studied for midterms a bit. To bed early again.
2011, a monday
First day of class! After some horrible nightmares about missing my morning class and getting dropped, up at 5:30am to beat the traffic an the horribleness that is traffic/parking the first week of school. Sat in the parking garage for an hour an read PopSci and ate a Harry & David pear while I waited for classtime to roll around. Good first impression of my calculus professor. Home, math homework all morning/afternoon. Back west for chemistry—prof was 40 minutes late due to some severe traffic issues on the 10/405. Feeling pretty good about him too. Home after 10pm, basically went straight to bed so I could get up at 5:30 again tomorrow.
2010, a sunday
slept in, got lozenges for a sore throat, then hit morning trivia. the ship was decked out for valentine’s day, including a particulary gaudy atrium display that was so bad it went back around to good. i had the special indian buffet for lunch. it was fiordland national park cruising day, and in the afternoon when we entered milford sound, the rain finally let up and we got some good views – of, of course, the one fjord we’d already seen, although the rain meant waterfalls were everywhere, whereas we had only seen a few on our previous cruise. mom and dad played some ping pong. we had another great dinner at pacific moon, and aunt linnea and dad threw down and decided a ping pong grudge match was in order. mom gave everyone chocolate for valentine’s day, and when she offered our waiter one, he said ‘only if it’s from the heart’ so she stuck it in her shirt and pulled it out and gave it to him! hilarious, and he was blushing a bit :)