The Agrinautica

Yesterday
   Yesterday (Monday) was the third day of school for most students here at the U of C at Davis. For me it was my last day of break. I went and got that remainder check at Durden Hall that financial aid had finally admitted they had for me. A whopping $107.13. I'm rich now, let me tell ya.

   And I got my haircut in the barbershop in the MU basement. At first I thought the man hated me because I have a mohawk, but then he started talking about how he used to have some regular customers he'd give crazy spikes to, and ended up giving me a lot of advise on it.


Today
   Today was my first day of class this quarter. I only have classes Tuesdays and Thursdays, but its six hours straight. I think its gonna be alright though.
   From 10:30-11:50 I have VEN3 (Introduction to Viticulture (winemaking)). I think Kristy would describe the teacher as a bignerd but its not in a bad way... some highlights from today were learning about such grapevine diseases as "powdery mildew," and "botrytis bunchrot" (that last one sounds like a name from Harry Potter or something.. but then again I haven't read that)...
   Then from 12:10 to 13:30 I had ECN162 ("International Economics"). The professor struck me as terrible. I'm definitely going to be getting the textbook for THAT class. genuinesarcasm is in the class with me and my class thereafter...
   HIS138C (History of the Soviet Union). He did the thing where he asked us to write our name, major, and exposure to russia on a piece of paper. So I'm like "I know pavel!" (pavelthegeek), but then Pavel is like, "no, I won't expose myself to you!" Anyway, as luck would have it, Pavel, being the crazy Russian that is, was auditing that class and the next one...
   HIS138A ("Russian Empire up to 1881"). Got a feeling the tests are gonna be really hard.. the teacher seems to have this "bite me" kinda attitude. We also had a class discussion about what "flax" is because no one, including the teacher, was really sure.


Picture of the Day

Skyward
power pylon at marguerite & olympiad
© Kris Fricke 2001