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Jan. 22nd, 2002 06:40 pmSo classes are off to a great start...</sarcasm>
I left work to catch the bus, and arrived at the bus stop just in time to see the bus leave, discovering simultaneously that I didn't have my wallet. Oops.
Really, it's better that both things went wrong. Had it been just one or the other, I would have felt even more stupid.
I went back to the office to find the wallet. It wasn't there. I was about to head down to the coffee shop to see if I'd left it there, but I decided to check my backpack first. It was there. Very sensible place indeed, since I never put my wallet in my backpack.
So, I went to catch the next bus. While riding it to the apartment complex where the class was taking place, I checked the schedule, and realized the class started at 4:30, not 4:45 like I thought. That means that I'd be 15 minutes late, rather than barely on time. Oops again.
I got to the apartment, and looked around for the community room where the class was supposed to be taking place. There was no obvious aerobics looking class. A man asked me if I was there for aerobics, and told me that I was in the right place, but class was cancelled today because of a basketball game.
At least I had the good sense to be late on a day that didn't really matter.
I decided to walk home, since I didn't feel like waiting around a half hour for the bus to come by again. There's a new pedestrian overcrossing over the freeway, which happened to start just on the other side of the apartment complex, so I decided to take that.
Unfortunatly, it apparently isn't quite as finished as it appeared, as there was a fence blocking the entrance. Being the law-abiding citizen that I am, I decided to walk through the field instead. That turned out to be quite a good workout itself, between wading across the squishy ground and the head-height forests of reeds.
I saw a number of egrets, some birds which I'm pretty sure were pheasants, and an honest-to-god owl (is it obvious I'm a city kid?). It was mainly white, with brownish-yellow spots. Possibly a short eared owl, which is apparently rare around here, but not unheard of. It was really neat. It was a nice walk, though I ended up feeling rather guilty about disturbing the birds.
Then again, in a few years, the whole area will probably be apartments, anyways :/
I would have loved that area as a kid. Hell, I would have loved a lot of Davis as a kid. I was, and still am, obsessed with the book Bridge to Terebithia, and wanted a Terebithia of my own. Some hidden place of my own that nobody else knew about, except maybe a close friend or two. Never really found it till I went off to college. Like I said earlier, I was a city kid. There was nowhere around open enough to really be secluded.
I decided to drop the C++ class I was going to take. I don't feel like killing myself this semester, and I'd rather get a good grade in one class than a mediocre (at best) grade in two. Plus, it would be awfully hard to get from the aerobics class back downtown in time, since the two classes are only 15 minutes apart.
While looking at the schedule on the bus, I realized that I could still take another class. A fun class, like I've been missing. They offer a number of classes which only meet one evening a week. This is something that I already knew, since I've taken classes like this before, but it didn't hit me until today that it could be useful.
Of the classes that only met on one day that I could take (no prerequisites, meeting Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday), the two that looked most interesting were Human Sexuality and Women in Film and Literature. I think I'll take Women in Film and Literature. It meets on Thursday, so it'll be a nice ending for the week. Plus, it meets in a theater!
I just realized that, assuming the classes I took at Davis transfer, I only need about 2-3 classes on top of the ones I'd already planned to take in order to get a Women's Studies degree. Cool!
Probably next to useless in reality, but still really cool. Suddenly, I'm hyped about school again :)
I left work to catch the bus, and arrived at the bus stop just in time to see the bus leave, discovering simultaneously that I didn't have my wallet. Oops.
Really, it's better that both things went wrong. Had it been just one or the other, I would have felt even more stupid.
I went back to the office to find the wallet. It wasn't there. I was about to head down to the coffee shop to see if I'd left it there, but I decided to check my backpack first. It was there. Very sensible place indeed, since I never put my wallet in my backpack.
So, I went to catch the next bus. While riding it to the apartment complex where the class was taking place, I checked the schedule, and realized the class started at 4:30, not 4:45 like I thought. That means that I'd be 15 minutes late, rather than barely on time. Oops again.
I got to the apartment, and looked around for the community room where the class was supposed to be taking place. There was no obvious aerobics looking class. A man asked me if I was there for aerobics, and told me that I was in the right place, but class was cancelled today because of a basketball game.
At least I had the good sense to be late on a day that didn't really matter.
I decided to walk home, since I didn't feel like waiting around a half hour for the bus to come by again. There's a new pedestrian overcrossing over the freeway, which happened to start just on the other side of the apartment complex, so I decided to take that.
Unfortunatly, it apparently isn't quite as finished as it appeared, as there was a fence blocking the entrance. Being the law-abiding citizen that I am, I decided to walk through the field instead. That turned out to be quite a good workout itself, between wading across the squishy ground and the head-height forests of reeds.
I saw a number of egrets, some birds which I'm pretty sure were pheasants, and an honest-to-god owl (is it obvious I'm a city kid?). It was mainly white, with brownish-yellow spots. Possibly a short eared owl, which is apparently rare around here, but not unheard of. It was really neat. It was a nice walk, though I ended up feeling rather guilty about disturbing the birds.
Then again, in a few years, the whole area will probably be apartments, anyways :/
I would have loved that area as a kid. Hell, I would have loved a lot of Davis as a kid. I was, and still am, obsessed with the book Bridge to Terebithia, and wanted a Terebithia of my own. Some hidden place of my own that nobody else knew about, except maybe a close friend or two. Never really found it till I went off to college. Like I said earlier, I was a city kid. There was nowhere around open enough to really be secluded.
I decided to drop the C++ class I was going to take. I don't feel like killing myself this semester, and I'd rather get a good grade in one class than a mediocre (at best) grade in two. Plus, it would be awfully hard to get from the aerobics class back downtown in time, since the two classes are only 15 minutes apart.
While looking at the schedule on the bus, I realized that I could still take another class. A fun class, like I've been missing. They offer a number of classes which only meet one evening a week. This is something that I already knew, since I've taken classes like this before, but it didn't hit me until today that it could be useful.
Of the classes that only met on one day that I could take (no prerequisites, meeting Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday), the two that looked most interesting were Human Sexuality and Women in Film and Literature. I think I'll take Women in Film and Literature. It meets on Thursday, so it'll be a nice ending for the week. Plus, it meets in a theater!
I just realized that, assuming the classes I took at Davis transfer, I only need about 2-3 classes on top of the ones I'd already planned to take in order to get a Women's Studies degree. Cool!
Probably next to useless in reality, but still really cool. Suddenly, I'm hyped about school again :)
