Discovery

My dark mood leaked back into my early this morning.

I really do have a ton of work to do this semester. Along with my usual studies, I am expected to collect 80 vegetation species. I do not know where to start. Luckily, I have a little missus that is going to help me out (and I shall help her in turn).

I also took on managing a free market at the school. How that works is that we accept donations, arrange them in this room we took over, and just record what comes in and out of the market. Everything is free. It is quite the good idea.

Unfortunately, people have been dumping a lot of junky clothes on us. It is a lot of folding and sorting. I thought with the hours I was manning the shop I could get some homework done. I was there for two and a half hours and managed to read 10 pages of the text and merely write the date at the top of my chemistry questions.

Oh well...

However, at 1:30PM, the Fish + Wildlife people went out to a local creek and began collecting invertebrates. We had so much fun. I got a crayfish, damselfly larvae, mayfly larvae, and countless other little beauties. If that is what my job is going to be like, I think I might have a blast. I cannot wait for the dissection.

In preparation, I started dissecting other things. I found of box of sealed tampons and began investigating. Being a guy, I never knew how crude the things could be. It's just a cardboard tube inside of another one that pushes an absorbent rag into the unmentionables. A long string hangs from the rag; presumably for when it comes time for removal.

I do not envy you ladies. We guys have it lucky. I have an even more reinforced respect for you all.


- Jeffrey