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Posted 01:31 PM, September 25, 2006, by antilles

This weekend, I went on the Biomass camping trip. I think there must be something about school sponsored camping trips; every single one I have attended leave me broken the next day. This particular time, I twisted my ankle 2 miles into a 11 mile hike. (I was trying to take a photo while walking along the trail.) Between that and general soreness, I'm a bit of a mess.

Just in time for classes to start!

Robin oh so kindly woke me up with a glass of water and 2 advil this morning. Then he packed me a lunch, and drove me onto campus. The advil and ankle brace do their part, and I can walk around ok, albeit rather slowly. This was nerve-racking with all the bikers whizzing by. Boy, campus got really busy all of a sudden.

I went to my first (and only) class of the day, Biosci 230 (immunology). Actually, it is the very first class I have been to in almost 3 years. Thankfully, I did not fall asleep. Even more thankfully, the material is not totally unfamiliar, so I don't foresee that it will be a struggle. The real test will be how Genetics treats me tomorrow.

Then I ate lunch outside with Nancy, a college classmate who is starting her master's in bioscience. It's really nice to have an old familiar face around. It's also really good to have someone to talk to about buying property, juggling kids with career, and other subjects that I don't necessarily feel I can broach with some of my other classmates who are more recently out of college.

I have the afternoon off till the Biomass orientation and dinner, so I'm going to hunker down in the library and do some reading for my lab rotation. I will NOT surf the web. I will NOT play the neat little web game that my husband discovered this weekend. (http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/core.html if you're curious. muahahaha.)

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