(I'm so bad at titles)

Okay, time for some recent goings-on.

I got to "teach" a class this last Thursday. My mentor teacher offered to let me, and it was great. I did a lecture on adaptation and then a game with spoons, clothespins, and beans. They seemed to have fun, and I even got a compliment from one of the boys in her fifth period. Then at work yesterday one of the ladies in the bakery tells me her daughter was in my mentor's sixth period. I knew that girl was familiar. She told her mom she had fun, too. I got compliments from the kids. That made me feel great. So did being up there in front of the class. Man, I can't believe it took me this long to figure out I want to be teacher. I almost am too impatient about getting there now.

School is almost over, woo-hoo! I got accepted to the CCI at UCR. So did this guy in my education class so I get to know someone there. I'm so excited about that, too. One of the checkers at work today asked about my mold (she didn't want to say fungus, and I didn't realize why until just now). That was nice, and it's going alright. We think we ID'd everything and are now formulating the paper and a way to put our samples in cases for future mycologists. Except I was looking at the temp and humidity data for this area, and I don't see any reason that the fungi seemed to be mostly dead April 11 and then come back April 18. Then I was thinking about the dew point and how that might mean more than humidity. The two are connected, though. April 11 had the lowest average humidity, which means a lower dew point. It was also more stable that week, which is good for fungi growth. Who knows. I'' try and discuss it with my friend on Monday.

In other news, I love Armin's new album Imagine. In his song with Jennifer Rene she actually sounds good. I like that it is more vocal trance.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die

"With hands held high into the sky so blue
The ocean opens up to swallow you." - Linkin Park

Sometimes a picture is enough

"And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray
And the sun will set for you."


I've had this song from Linkin Park stuck in my head the whole day. I thought of the words as I hiked to keep my distracted from the distance, wind, and slope. I really like their new album, even though it is a different style.

I'm tired though and have to work in forty minutes. I smell like some tree, and it's bugging because I don't know what part of me does. Probably my hair because my friend and I crawled through bushes and trees. There were some good fungi samples. Unfortunately, there was also a snake. It looked like the one I came about ten inches from as I crawled over a log earlier. She yelled, and I was afraid to come down from the log. What a long and disappointing day, though.

Peace for now. I'll update later