Looking Fondly Back at the Week that Was

Trafton B.

January 14, 2010 - 1:00 PM

Dang! This was a great week.

I'm going to take in the past week for all that its worth because I know the work load is only going to pick up in the next two months, but right now I'm sitting in the EMU skylight lounge and I'm all smiles.

I just finished giving blood with Lane Memorial Blood Bank; they usually come on campus once or twice a term. Last time I donated I was at the Civil War blood drive. Donating apparently enters me into a raffled to win free books or tickets or Ducks gear, but three years running I have yet to win anything. Truth be told, I do it for the free pizza, cookies and Capri-sun. I won't go into detail about today's events for fear of turning off the squeamish readers. Let's just say the volunteer that was helping me just got finished with two "fainters," so we had a few good laughs and she made me promise to not give her any trouble.

Yesterday, I had another great class with my ELP team. It looks like the last of the ice is broken, and we have a field trip to the West Eugene Wetlands tomorrow afternoon, which I'm pretty excited for. Also, I turned in an assignment for my Natural Resource Policy class; our professor had us write a memo to State Rep. Peter Defazio (D-Springfield) about the pros and cons to adopting a cap and trade program for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It was a little tedious browsing through all of the legislative documents, not to mention the millions of political critiques on the Internet, but it was still interesting. Will Defazio read it in the end? Probably not. But if you need to know about past cap and trade successes in the US, I'd be happy to tell you more.

Tuesday was pretty standard. We visited the MAP Library on campus for my Urban GIS class, which I actually found really interesting. I'll admit it. I'm guilty of being someone of a cartography nerd. For example, I knew beforehand that the MAP stands for Maps and Aerial Photography. Little known fact that only a map geek or a campus tour guide would know. Unfortunately for me, I am both of those. I did get a really good run during a rare gap of sunshine in the afternoon.

Monday was, Monday. Spent mostly reading and preparing that memo.

I think my favorite part of this week (and every following week of the term) is that my weekend starts in two hours. This is the first term that I do not have Friday classes, and it is glorious. The funny thing is that I usually have only class on Fridays, but just knowing that still made my weekend one day shorter. Now, I have nothing to worry about Fridays except working in the mornings and finding a place to camp at during the weekend

Being MLK Jr. Day next Monday, my friends and I booked a few yurts near Florence for Sunday night, and hopefully we'll find time to visit the hot springs too. I'll keep you posted.

Now, I have to head off to Urban GIS - yes, my last class of the week. I could be celebrating the coming of the weekend with a Ducks basketball game at Mac Court, but after attending that atrocious Civil War game on Sunday night I'm rethinking my options.