Promotion

Last week was hectic to say the least. My online classes each had about 6 hours of lectures to listen to. Usually it's only 2.5 - 3.5 per class. So that was fun. I learned all about Landscape Architecture as a profession - so glad I'm pursuing that as a career :)  Rainforests are way cooler than I originally thought. There are montanes, igapo, terra firme, and varzea. Some of the trees are up to 500 years old! WHAT?! Another cool fact: some plants (called epiphytes or epiphyles) don't even have roots. They grow on leaves of other trees; the rainforest is so humid that there is enough air moisture for this to occur. This relationship is called antagonism because one species benefits and the other is set back. Cool stuff, I know.

Anyways, over the weekend I went to Shorewood (a suburb of MKE) with Brendan to visit his family. We went to the sectional cross country meet hosted in Shorewood. Both the guys and girls teams won the meet and advanced to state. Brendan will never let me hear the end of that, I'm sure of it. After the race, his mom made us dinner - even a vegetarian one for me :)   We then went to see 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' at the Oriental. It was a pretty good movie - would recommend it! On Saturday, we walked his dog Cally to the lakefront and relaxed on the beach while she played in the icy water. His mom brought us back after the Badger game so we would have time to study. It was a great time.

Class listings for next semester came out yesterday. Guess who has her schedule all planned? ME!! Now I just have to wait a month to enroll - hopefully they don't fill up on me! If all goes as planned, my classes will be the following:
Botany 305 - Plant Anatomy Systematics
Phytopathology 375 - Organic and Urban Agriculture
Physics 104 - Second Semester Introductory Physics
Phytopatholgy 299 - Capstone project with Dr. Hudelson (FIELD research)
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science 100 - Weather and Climate (maybe?)
Geography 344 - something with rainforests (backup plan)

Now - the main point of this post: I got a raise at work!!!! I'll now be making $12 an hour as a purchasing assistant. Also, my boss got promoted to Central Purchasing of UW-Madison - I'm really excited for her. She started out as a student worker and is now the boss of CALS who is the boss of BioChemistry who is the boss of my new boss who is the boss of me. She definitely went up the ladder. To be honest, I will miss Carla a lot. She is the best boss I've ever had; I can only hope my bosses in the future will be as good as her. BYE!!!

Oh - and 74 more days until Guatemala!!!EEEEEEEEK!