Another week down—been a month now in the semester. Feels like it’s been so much longer, though. I must admit, repeating second semester is much worse than repeating first simply because of the material. On the plus side, I’m getting A’s and B’s so far—we’ve had a physiology exam and an anatomy quiz previously, and a parasitology exam next week on cat and dog parasites (my strongest portion of the course).
It’s been a relatively quiet week comparatively. The leatherback patrols this week were pretty dull—no turtles wanted to come out. But then again, with 30+ people (yes, a rather large eco-tour group joined us this time), I can’t blame them. They got discouraged around 1:00am, and Dr. Stewart let us off early at 2:30. Hooray for sleep! Granted, that only gave me about 4 hours of sleep that night because I had to go to the mechanic… but let me share that headache with you.
My car was in the shop for most of the week (hooray for blown ignition coils), but the day I got it back, I started having the same issues. I managed to get back to the mechanic on Saturday morning, only to find out that there’s a loose wire somewhere in the vicinity of the ignition coils, which explains why the part blew and why the issue is intermittent. Back in the shop next week for her!
Saturday evening was one I had been looking forward to for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaages—RUSVM Geeks Anonymous Gaming Night, Round 2. (Wow… that’s a mouthful actually.) I had a bunch of ‘em over to make pizza and play games. We had some interesting pizza combinations—like, Lolly made bologna/sour cream and onion chips/scallions… I made pepperoni/pineapple/goat cheese/broccoli. With the first group that came by, we played a round of Apples to Apples, but as soon as the rest of the crowd came by, we split off and had 3 games all going at a time—Lunch Money, You Don’t Know Jack, Outland, Cranium—it was just pure chaos. The last remaining group played something called Loaded Questions… and boy did we learn some interesting things about others with that one. When it’s your turn, you read a question off the card and everyone writes their answers down and hand them off to someone to read them. Then, you have to guess who wrote each answer. You get points for each right one. It was fun, though. I’m glad we did a round 2, and that they’re gaining a following. Let’s see how (and when) a round 3 goes.
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| "You Don't Know Jack"--Steven had to decide if it was a motivational poster or a brand of adult diapers. 4 out of 7... not bad! |
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| "Lunch Money"--Avi is stuffing his face while Lolly gets dragged under the bed by the monsters I keep there. |
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| "Apples to Apples"--Emily looks awfully interested in that bag of chips... |
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| "Loaded Questions"--Yes, I was the slowpoke of the group... I was thinking very carefully of my answers. |
Well, I should go get some sleep—class tomorrow morning… and I’m STILL tired despite sleeping until noon. See you guys next week.
