The Other Side of Thursday

I've been dreading today for a long time. It was prone to be a very anxiety-producing day, due to the number of things I had to do and the urgency of all of them. Luckily, it turned out to be just fine. But I like breaking up days like this into the goods and the bads, even though most of these things end up being irrelevant.

Good:
- I made it to my meeting at the Cal Academy of Sciences without getting lost, or paying for parking.
- My meeting was very exciting, and gave me hope for the fun, interesting things I might be able to do with this institution, like helping to come up with an evaluation of their Lizards and Snakes exhibit. Herpetology? Yes please! Now I just have to talk to my adviser.
- While I was at the CAS, I saw this girl that I used to take piano lessons with when I was 5-12. It was insane. We both did a double-take, then I confirmed that it was her later on facebook. She works there now, apparently. So weird!
- My meeting ended early and I had plenty of time to get to my class observation at the Palo Alto Junior Zoo.
- I successfully collected data for my evaluation class! I also got an audio recording of the entire class, which I now have to transcribe. I've been working for two hours and I'm nine of 54 minutes in. Ughhhh.
- When I came back to my apartment, I found an unopened, brand new tube of lip gloss in a really pretty color sitting on the sidewalk. I thought about it, inspected it, decided it was untouched (and unscratched - the case is still shiny) so I decided to take it. I'm waiting 24 hours in case anyone sends along a building-wide chat asking for it back, and then it's mine. I would like to emphasize how not opened it was.
- I went running. The run actually sucked in that my calves were really tight the whole time and the trail I wanted to run on was closed. But it counts as good because a) I did it, and b) my back didn't hurt really bad afterward like the last two times I've gone running.
- Krist agreed to extend my zoo email for a whole year. Yayyyyyy! No need for separation anxiety, no, not here.
- Halloween festivities start tomorrow, and it looks like there might actually be some.

Bad:
- I am soooo unstoked about my classes and getting less and less excited about them by the day. I just want this quarter and these required classes to be OVER.
- As a result of being extremely unexcited about my classes, I have not been getting extremely high marks in them. This is annoying because it implies that I need to do more work. But I don't want to do more work in classes that I don't like. All I need is a B and I can move on with my life. For all I know, that's what I could be getting. But we don't get a lot of grade-related feedback. I hate grades. I don't want them anymore.
- I need two stamps. Also, I am continually amazed that they make you pay the postage on your mail-in ballot. Helloooo it's the government. It's supposed to be free to mail stuff.

Okay, that's it. I'm going to transcribe, sleep, and kill this week off. Six down, four to go....