Yesterday was as exhausting as I predicted. But it was good as well. I spent the majority of the morning cutting and installing concrete board for the new floor in the Royal family’s kitchen. Then I came home to tutor for an hour. Then it was off into a world of critters that make our eating and preserving of food possible.

The class started with a bit of panic on my part. Apparently my professor has decided that the class will be receiving most of its updates and assignments via Facebook. So, I got to sit for a little over two hours dreading my professor’s response to me telling him that I’m not on Facebook. Luckily, I wasn’t so preoccupied that I didn’t pay attention to the lecture. After the class ended, I let my prof know what was up and he said that was fine. He told me to email him and remind him to send me the assignments via email. Awesome. I was concerned that he would have taken a hard line on this because I had heard horror stories of teachers forcing students to join social networking sites in order to “participate” in the class. Luckily, my teacher has bigger fish to fry.

After it was all over with, I’ve already learned a few things and realized other things. The most important thing that I walked away with from last night’s lecture is this:

Anytime a person gets sick from eating food “contaminated” with bacteria, it is because there is feces involved somewhere along the line. 

Plain and simple. If you got sick, you ate poop. Not to worry, though. You eat poop all the time, you just don’t know it. I also had the realization that this class is going to be really fun and awesome, but it is going to kick the ever-loving shit out of me if I don’t bust ass to keep up.

In an interesting turn of events, I discovered a music group last night that is actually named after a person I learned about briefly in the class. Her name was Mary Mallon. You might know her as Typhoid Mary. Apparently she was a carrier of Salmonella typhi and she spread to other people by:

a) Not washing her hands.

b) Cooking people’s food with poopy hands.

Anyways, this group is called Hail Mary Mallon and consists of Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz. And here is a cut off there first record. Enjoy:

Pretty badass old-school hiphop style. Dave, I expect an email when you have the album.

Well, I’d love to stay and chat, but it looks like rain and I’ve got another double to work today. Kitchen and letterpress. Maybe tonight Zaxxon and I’ll record a new Date Night for you. We’ll see. If you behave yourself. More soon. ~SC