Mid-Term

I am about to leave for school--I have a mid-term in Humanities tonight. There were six pages of single spaced typing notes; I hope I can remember it all as she has long in class essays.

It turns out that I have an infected tooth--it is very painful, I can tell you that. He gave me the choice of an antibiotic or a root canal and I chose the meds. It may come down to having the root canal, but I'll try this first. It woke me up last night just throbbing.

In a follow up to a previous post--when I got to the dentist, one of the girls said I heard about you and your photography. I said--what do you mean? Apparently, the women who chastised me last week is a neighbor to one of the hygentists. She came to work and shared the story as it was one of her children in the group! They all just laughed at what a threat I am to children; I have been going to the same dentist for over 20 years!

On the way home I think I took one of my favorite pictures yet. There is a house about 1/2 mile from me that sells plants in their yard. I photographed the sunflowers which turned out beautifully, however, when I was turning around I saw a white flowering tree, just beginning to bloom, and I knocked on the door and asked if I could take pictures. The young man said--sure go ahead. I did.

It only hurts when I bite on it

Good news! I got an A on my geology test, and a quiz returned in Algebra with a grade of 100! Now that is what I call progress. In between classes today I was sitting on a bench and saw a remarkable sight to me anyway. A squirrel was scaling the wall with a mouthful of sphagnum moss on it's way to the roof! Once there it stared down at me for a bit and then took the stairs back down to ground level. You know I couldn't resist photographing it. As well, when I arrived at school, the roses were so beautiful they were crying out to have their pictures taken!

I stayed after classes to listen to a speaker about Florida's Bio-Diversity and the effect the growing population was having on it. He showed lots of great photos, and the bonus is. extra credit for geology. Algebra was weird again--my professor never looks at the class directly and it is just plain uncomfortable. I saw a girl from that class after the lecture, and she said she was dropping it as she can't seem to learn from our teacher. I don't blame her--I would do it myself, but I've already invested two months--I will stick it out.

Bruce has gone to Detroit to cool off. The sunshine has returned this afternoon and brought with it 83 degree heat! I must finish my study guide for Humanities, hopefully, today. I have a toothache to accompany my other problems so a visit to the dentist is in store for tomorrow.