Beyond the Pale

Ovine - Sheep-like
Bovine - Cow-like
Porcine - Pig-like
Equine - Horse-like
Canine - Dog-like
Lupine - Wolf-like
Feline - Cat-like
Cervine - Deer-like
Corvine - Crow-like
Leporine - Rabbit-like
Murine - Mouse-like
Ursine - Bear-like
Serpentine - Snake-like
Piscine - Fish-like
Elephantine - Elephant-like
Leonine - Lion-like
Volucrine - Bird-like
Vulpine - Fox-like
Hircine - Goat-like
Vespine - Wasp-like
Musteline - Ferret (badger/skunk/weasel) -like
Formicine - Ant-like
Ranine - Frog-like
Macropodine - Kangaroo or Wallaby-like
Microtine - Vole or Lemming-like
Acarine - Mite-like
Anopheline - Mosquito (malaria) -like
Didelphine - Opposum-like
Hystricine - Porcupine-like
Crotaline/viperine - Viper-like
Sciurine - Squirrel-like
Acipenserine - Sturgeon-like
Testudine - Turtle/tortoise-like

Central Connecticut State University

Plant Physiology	A
Stellar Astronomy	A-
Topics in Biology: Conservation Biology	B+
Comparative Planetology	Holy crap I got a B!!

 

 

Pre-calculus with Trigonometry (MATH 119)
MTWR 8 am - 10 am 26 May - 16 July CCSU

General Chemistry II Lecture (CHEM 163)
MTW 5 pm - 6:50 pm R 5 pm - 7:40 pm
General Chemistry II Lab (CHEM 164)
MTW 2 pm - 4:50 pm 29 June - 30 July CCSU

Goodbye, summer.

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below. (I suspect this list is geared towards US-based readers.)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.

( Big Ol' List O' Books! )

Six, huh? Hurray for being a book worm! Though, there's no number 15, and most of these I read in high school or earlier and have only a vague recollection of what they're about, except for Dune, Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter, Little Women, and His Dark Materials. There's also a few that I've read the script to plays (A Christmas Carol, for example) or only seen movie versions (Watership Down, Count of Monte Cristo). I was also surprised nothing by Ayn Rand or Ray Bradbury was on here.

1. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
2. Luck In The Shadows, Lynn Flewelling
3. Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
4. Valley of Horses, Jean M Auel
5. Mammoth Hunters, Jean M Auel
6. Plains of Passage, Jean M Auel
7. Stalking Darkness, Lynn Flewelling
8. Traitor's Moon, Lynn Flewelling
9. Shadow Returns, Lynn Flewelling
10. The Harlequin, Laurell K. Hamilton
11. Blood Noir, Laurell K. Hamilton
12. Spirits in the Wires, Charles de Lint
13. The Shelters of Stone, Jean M Auel
14. The Bone Doll's Twin, Lynn Flewelling
15. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire

WISH ME LUCK.

By the end of today, my graduate school applications to UConn's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department and to UMass' Department of Natural Resources Conservation will both be done and submitted, and I'll know whether the Honda Civic in West Haven is in good shape and if I am going to buy it or not.

The New Year has started out both fantastically and well, not so great. On the fantastic side, I have gotten to see plenty of good people this week including family and friends from home that I see very rarely. Got to host for the first time on New Year's Eve (even though I napped through part of it), and to go to my grandparents' open house on the first for the first time in forever. And, my graduate school applications are 95% done. On the less fantastic side, I still don't have a new car and some school things still need to get ironed out. I found two nice looking, newish Hondas with low miles but haven't heard back from either of them. I'm hoping it's just the holidays interfering with business, but I'm getting a little frustrated.

I don't usually do New Year's Resolutions, because I've always thought they were kind of silly. I still think they're kind of silly but I can also see how saying out loud (or...where people can read it) what you plan on doing for the year can give you some incentive to do so (especially when one of those people is Mike Faulk). So here we go:

o I'm going to (try to) lighten up, and think a little more before I talk. Those may seem contradictory, but I assure you, they go hand in hand.

o I'm going to read those important books that are so interesting yet so hard to read. It's a different sort of skill than devouring novels, and it's high time I learned how. I have acquired Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and Michael gave me an interesting book on new generation feminism (this being only the top of the list I plan to get through in 2009)

There's a few more floating around in my head like actually having an exercise routine, etc, etc, but those are pretty standard and not necessarily in the "Starting Over New" category.

To everyone I didn't see, I hope you guys got this year off to a great start and I hope I see you soon!

Monday
Work 9 to 3
Topics in Biology: Conservation Biology 4 to 5:15

Tuesday
Plant Physiology 11 to 12:15
Glacial & Quaternary Geology 2 to 3:15
Stellar Astronomy 4 to 5:15
Comparative Planetology 5:30 to 6:45
Stellar Lab 7 to 8:50

Wednesday
Work 9 to 3
Topics in Biology: Conservation Biology 4 to 5:15

Thursday
Plant Physiology 11 to 12:15
Glacial & Quarternary Geology 2 to 3:15
Stellar Astronomy 4 to 5:15
Comparative Planetology 5:30 to 6:45


ESCI 179
ESCI 378
ESCI 490
BIO 449
BIO 490

I think I fixed it. But if the earth science chair doesn't approve this class, I may have to hurt something.

Reasons why college is obnoxious:
I have to take four earth science courses out of a list of approximately six choices in order to graduate. Since I'm not really an earth science kinda gal, I pretty much pushed these off until the end. This turned out to be a poor decision when, next semester, only one of the two I need to take is offered. Beyond that, most of the offered earth science classes offered have prerequisites that I don't have. After having to go see the chair of the earth science department I get overridden into Physical Oceanography - I don't have physics and am supposed to have it, and the teacher's a really nice guy, but a pretty bad teacher. After I sign up there comes a ray of light, my good friend Evan has dropped volcanology and has to take something else next semester and the earth science chair tells him the same thing: take Oceanography. So if I'm stuck at school until 9:30 at night every Wednesday at least I got a friend with me.

Then, today, I get an email from the registrar saying, oops, you're not registered full time next semester! You better fix that. I go, wait, what? I was registered for 14 credits. Two more than required. What happened? I fiddle around with the ever obnoxious school website for a minute and there it is: Oceanography has been cancelled.

What. the. fuck.

No notification prior to this that the class that my graduation is hinging on has been cancelled. Now I have to hunt down Mr Technologically Impaired Never Ever Answers An Email Ever of the Earth Science Dept. over break (which I hope to all that's holy he's there. Because if he's not...) and get him to ok a different class. Evan has to do likewise, otherwise we're both set back a semester at least, and more than likely a year. So I'm more than a little pissed about this, but I think it's mostly covering the panic.