Good food, good wine, too much homework

Friday at last!!!!!

I haven't confirmed swing-dancing tomorrow... so I'm not sure if that's still going on. Either way though, no class and no work for the next two days.

Actually, technically, my weekend has already begun because calculus was cancelled today (teacher is sick!!!) so I'm free!!!! But, since Wes is at work and there's nothing for me at the house to do, I think I'm gonna stick on campus and try and get some work done. I got a little bit of everything done at the Porter House last night before the crowd came in.

I was finishing my homework marathon with Physics last night and the restaurant literally went from me being the only person there to the entire restaurant being packed within half an hour. As I was finishing up my last few problems, an older-but-not-'old' couple sat next to me. They commented on the physics and we got to talking. Turns out the lady was a biotechnologist that worked in R&D, research and development, for a pharmaceutical company (not sure which one). Really, really nice people and seemingly very interested in what food science was about. I love talking with intelligent people.

Today in micro we did a bunch of stuff that will give us further clues as to what our unknowns are. So far, I know this:

- Gram positive rods
- Forms spores
- Will grow 'optimally' at both 25 and 35 degrees Celsius.

I believe that I have a strain of either Clostridium or Bacillus. I'm leaning more toward Bacillus because Clostridium tends to dislike oxygen in any amount (Clostridium botulinum is a bad, bad thing in the soup industry because of the anaerobic enviroment inside the can) and, so, I doubt would grow on regular, run-of-the-mill TSA plates. We shall see next Friday when I can determine the results of the tests that we set up today!!!

Homework check-list, to keep me on track:
- Write capstone and email to The Fat Man
- Learn Physics for test Monday
- Make spidey speech for Monday
- Practice spidey speech so that a rerun of my last speech doesn't occur
- Read my Philosophy book for test Wednesday
- Rewrite Microbiology notes
- Learn Microbiology notes for test Wednesday
- Maybe do the Calculus homework that was due for today

Hopefully today is as productive as I imagine it being...

PS - I got bored with my old layout and this one is a little more fall-appropriate anyway. Hope yous likes! AND sorry for the squished picture at the top... I will continue working on fixing that... It's the best I could do for now.