feeling Much Better Now

[jinian]

It wasn't an easy day. It's ridiculously hot for May, and I was wilty with the rest of the yard. Things are always harder when I'm uncomfortable.

The really fun part was finding out that the measles immunization hadn't gotten into the computers yet, so they weren't going to let me register. Because I had, foolishly due to startlement, let them have my only copy, I had to drive (after a frantic call to Wim about the car keys) to the doctor's office and then to the health center.

Once I was on campus, though, things went pretty well. The measles brigade was able to enter the result right then, and my dead-reckoning skills were in fine form, so I made it to the orientation fifteen minutes early. It was about as useful as orientations tend to be, but I did get to go to Taco Del Mar after.

Then I had my appointment with an advisor, which is spelled as I have spelled it and not with an E, thank you, which went pretty well. I hadn't been able to see the registration links since I wasn't approved, so I had no idea what courses were out there. This meant we had a short time of not knowing what to do with each other, but he rallied with distribution requirements. He demonstrated lots of useful things on the web registration interface, including how to look at the class occupancies accurate to the minute, rather than the once-a-day page, which came in really handy.

It costs seven dollars to park on campus for three hours. Sheesh.

I came home and poked around the course catalog for a long time. The intro biology courses are full, full, full, in summer and in fall, but I was able to put together a reasonable set of summer classes that had a little to do with my major. My great lust for Math Reasoning (proofs!) made that a little harder, but I found a prereq for many nifty art classes in 3D Design, and Forests in Societies is about plants some even if it's eco rather than bio. I registered for those.

Then I poked around on the computer because that's a thing I do, and I kept the bio class occupancy pages for summer and fall open, refreshing them now and then. Suddenly there was a 1 space open where there had been a zero! And suddenly I knew I had been a great fool not to leave the actual registration window open! (Unreasonably, you can't tell the computer "give me this one" while looking at a class.) I opened it speedily and put in the bio class, got an error, and put in the class with the required lab section. And I got it I got it! Yay! Take that, specter of two quarters' frustration! I dropped the eco course, because it made 18 credits, which is really hard, plus it was a half-term intensive. So those are my classes, YAY.

Also, the white meadow-rue is blooming beautifully and copiously, with many flowers in all sizes and opennesses. The flowers were sparser last year, which somehow made them more silly/cheerful, but they're so pretty now too.

And I have lots of long grass from bed edges, which maybe I will braid to make skeps for bumblebees. I want bumblebees to come live here.

Comments

[boxofdelights]

Yay!

yay!!!!

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

hooray for classes! when do you start and stuff?

Re: yay!!!!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

June 20.

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I also love your userpic.

Bumbling bees

[shelly-rae.livejournal.com]

I like those bumblebees too. Every Feb I put out a small box on a pole (with a small bumble bee sized hole for an entrance and a couple of vents. I tuck a small wad of dryer lint (no fabric softener) inside and every year a newly hatched Queen has moved in. All summer long they bumble about my garden,visiting the flowers and occasionally being eaten by frogs. They don't mind that I peek inside to see what they're doing from time to time and they blithely continue to work when I weed beneath their home. I should get a good tripod and take pictures of those fat fluffy bees going to and fro. I admit that a skep would be much cooler. They have them for sale at the nursery I work for.
Anon,

Re: Bumbling bees

[jinian.livejournal.com]

The box sounds like a great idea too. We certainly have enough lint. What nursery do you work for, if you don't mind saying? It's probably within driving range, though I don't get over to the Duvall area much unless I'm visiting my half-brother or picking blueberries.

(Did you know we have the same birthday?)

Re: feeling Much Better Now

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh, skeps! i had forgotten all about those. i wonder whether i could still make one (not really hard, as i recall). one of my relatives was an amateur beekeeper, and did that sort of thing.

i've been thinking about putting nests out for mason bees. the garden has a lot of plants that attract them.

mmmh, classes. glad you're feeling better! ridiculous heatwave here too.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Yay about the classes!

If you're really dying you know I'm not home most nights and you can come sleep here with my boyfriend the a/c unit; my place is probably to small to be much use to you during the day but you're welcome then too.

It was nice to come home at 4am to a handful of snow peas, yay!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I can sit in front of a fan at home, it's walking around the U in the heat that's really taxing. Thanks, though.

My first snow pea was ready last night! More of them are coming, but there was only one big enough to eat yet.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Does that mean you're not doing Forests in Societies? Shame, because that is one of the most interesting names for a course that I've heard in a long time. Richard would like it - it sounds like something to teach young ewok foresters how to look after their forest properly ;)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

It still sounds interesting to me, and I might wind up taking it later, but yes, not just yet. I had to sacrifice a few other things I liked on the altar of the bio department, too. (I didn't need to take Danish, but I wanted to!)