I have a website? Oh, yeah!

What's my excuse for not posting any entries for more than a week now? Well, it's not that I've lost the love for my writing in this space but it's that the events of last week really didn't permit me any spare time with which I could spill out any thoughts here on the ol' website.

The two things that kept me away from writing were a mass of homework in my igneous petrology class and the homecoming of Sarah. One week ago today at 2:15pm PST marked her touchdown in the States, a land she hadn't set foot on since January 3rd. Kristin, Nick and I drove out in Dijon to wait for Sarah. We stood outside two small doors in an area between an escalator and the tram that shuttles people from one section to another at SeaTac. Passengers on Sarah's flight exited the doors from the customs room (primarily) at a rate of about 1 or 2 every ten minutes! Luckily for our patience those numbers quickly picked up and sooner than I knew it Sarah was in my arms and I got to touch her lips with mine. Although only in Parkland until Wednesday and despite those nagging class-things that I had to attend, Sarah and I got to spend really great time together here. It was really stupendous to have her back in my life in three dimensions, even if only for a few days. We are again keeping in touch via electronic means but we can now use things like ICQ and free internet phone calls to keep up with one another. I'm just happy to have her in the same time zone as me.

So the other excuse I'll use for this week comes from the completion of a 2-credit, half semester course: Igneous petrology. The study of igneous rocks was the subject and last week held the concluding chapter for that class. That meant we all had to scramble to complete any past assignments or labs that hadn't yet been turned in and to crank out answers to the final lab and take-home final exam. To say the least, it was a big, time-consuming pile of work that I'm more than happy to be done with. I was really angry about the information I needed to find in order to answer the final exam questions. The first stop for answers was in our over-priced, over-wordy, under-colored textbook. Judging by the adjectives attached to it, you can probably understand why I would try to go elsewhere for info. On the web I could look up nearly any of the terms that were thrown at me on the final and emerge with a definition/explanation that was equal to, if not better than, the $100 monstrosity of paper and hard back could provide. Science classes like this should increasingly look towards alternative sources for information in order to save the students involved money. The worst thing about discovering the equivalent information on the web? I learned more from it than I have either in class or through my textbook. Education system check please?

Now the Sun of spring time shines brightly outside my window as if to promise a relaxing and smooth duration of the semester. Probably won't happen though because Monday we start metamorphic petrology. Same class. Different rocks.

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