Times III

I've been thinking of numbering my journals about my college life by quarter.  Something like Quarter 14-1, for the first week of my fourteenth quarter.  It would be a nice way to countdown to graduation, but admittedly it is very formal.  That's how I organize a lot of things on OneNote.

Anyway, lab is over!  It has no finals session, so yesterday was the last day!  We went on a field trip to the greenhouse.  If I'd visited the greenhouse sooner the Caiman might have still been there.  But they had to relocate it at some point.  There was still a bearded dragon and a skink.  I think skinks are my favorite lizard - Snivy is a skink, for one, and I determined right before Lunar-Fusion ended that my character was a blue-tongued skink hybrid.  I just like skinks.

Ironically, I might have done better in biology lab than I'm doing in English.  I consistently get a 18/20 on the lab reports and around an 8/10 on the quizzes - so I'll probably have the same grade in the class after the last two labs and the quiz are counted, which is a 93%!  And then I did the extra credit, so.  Active learning suits me.  And I think I've reached the mentality where memorizing facts about biology is somewhat relieving after so many classes where I have to process so much opinion, criticism, emotional expectation and expression. 

So now I just have one paper for sociology left, and then a lot of studying for three finals within the span of two days.  If I study right, Biology will be the easy one, since the last third of the class is all facts about species rather than the study of organic compounds and microbiology.

So yesterday before lab, my seatbelt finally came apart completely.  I've long resented this seatbelt.  It's too long, so it has a tendency to drag behind the wheelchair until I run into it, and it either jams the wheel or it doesn't and I run right over it.  The button to take it off seems very sensitive, because I'm always accidentally pushing it with my elbow while I drive, making me have to stop to pull it off the ground and put it back on.  And then people see me fumbling with it and sometimes ask if they can help.  Hopefully I can get a better seatbelt out of this.  Luckily though, not having a seatbelt isn't making a huge difference.  I hold on tight to the frame when I'm going fast or down hills, but generally I'm not having a problem staying in the chair.  (My body is kind of molded into this position...)

While yet another thing breaks, my laptop has apparently been fixed!  We all expected Best Buy to junk it, including Francisco and another Best Buy employee.  But nope.  I guess they opened the laptop and found that there was no clicker at all under the power button.  (Because Francisco removed the broken one.)  They had to have gotten a new one and welded it on.  So...yay Best Buy?  I guess I should renew that increasingly price-gouging warranty.  Though I'm disappointed that I didn't need to pay Francisco to extract the data and reset the hard drive since I'm getting the computer back anyway. 

After class this Friday, I'm going to a GameStop to pick up a Yarn Yoshi Amiibo.  I put Yoshi's Wooly World on the Christmas List I gave for my parents, but I didn't want to subject them to the Christmas toy hunt that is the Yarn Yoshi Amiibos.  Mark's going to get me one.  Yesterday I called him while I was at CalPoly to ask him if he wanted the Sailor Pluto plush that the Anime shop lady had.  He got really embarrassed and said not to get him anything for Christmas.  And then that night, he called saying he was going to give me money for Christmas to help me buy Yoshi's Wooly World.  So I said, why don't we make it a fun event and go to GameStop?  And instead of spending the money on the game, you can get me something less expensive.  He seemed to like that.  Hopefully a nearby GameStop still has them in stock tomorrow when I reserve it. 

That clinches it though, I'm going to have to get him a pretty good Christmas present.  I'm eyeing some sturdy Sailor Moon figures that won't fall apart like his last figure.

And then on Monday I'm probably going to see Mockingjay Pt. 2 with my parents.