Two Days In One
It’s been a very long time since I’ve been up (as in, slept the preceding hours) before four am. I’m not sure I’ve ever had to be up that early, really. This morning the Lawyers were headed to Hawaii and Lewis nicely offered to drive them to the airport. Guess they had a 6 am flight, which meant we needed to leave Davis just after four. Surprisingly we got to bed last night at a decent hour, and the 3:45 alarm didn’t seem as ridiculous as it could have. We made some tea, drove to the airport, drove home, and promptly slept through the remainder of the morning. Boo seemed confused about the going-back-to-bedness, but after a little jostling we all were sound asleep.
So needless to say, we missed our 9 am bike tour of campus appointment, but I’m not too bothered. My theme this week has been to try and not worry about non-mandatory things. All of this welcome week stuff is voluntary, so though we’ve signed up for lots of stuff, it just doesn’t seem like it’s worth stressing my last week before classes. We did, however, make it to campus for our first seminar – an introduction to funding. Just on time, too. The funding situation for graduate students is really bizarrely complicated, and it feels so much better to hear the finance officers explain that it’s just really complicated. It’s not that anyone is being a masochist about it, it’s just that all the grad programs are patchwork funding quilts and we just can’t expect that this stuff is going to be centralized. So a sigh of relief there, and a double sigh to see that both Lewis and my tuition got paid right on time – yesterday! I apparently owe them the “typical remainder” which I can feel satisfied not freaking out about now, since I know that if I’m going to be a TA they’re going to expect I pay this two hundred dollars of tuition. I have no idea why. We bought our books, too, and checked out the student union eateries for lunch. I’m starting to feel like a real student!
King of his lair. Sort of.
Super productive afternoon after we came back. I finished weeding the back yard gardens, and mowed the lawn. Seemed like it was a good time to let the kitty out, so I watched him in the yard for a while. He’s really surprising outside, because I figured until yesterday that he would be off like a shot when we finally let him outside. I don’t know what gave me that impression, given his general nervous temperament, but he has completely proven me wrong. He sort of keeps an eye on us the whole time he’s out, and he didn’t even remotely try getting out of the back yard today. He actually seemed to get bored after poking around a bit and came and meowed at me to be pet. Silly boy.
At any rate, the weather was really wonderful today, the perfect temperature for sitting out and reading, so I spent a while doing that to give Boo a chance to feel like he could hang out for a while. We also trimmed up the front garden, and it’s really starting to look nice around here. I can’t wait to plant some plants! Made a delicious cobb for dinner, called my parents, and I’ve been chilling out and watching Mythbusters ever since. I’m going to call this day a total success. Anyway, here’s my picture du jour… my adoreable kitty poking around the newly trimmed back garden. Yay!