Apparently everyone in the world is excited about it being Charles Dickens 200th birthday. At least that’s the way I heard it on NPR this morning. I was just trying to make a sausage biscuit, man.

Yesterday was less brutal in some ways and more in other ways than I had expected. My tutoring got bumped to Wednesday, so that was a bit of a relief. Then I went to food microbiology and my professor gave us our first exam. Or at least he he put it on the class’s website. It is only 13 questions and I only have answer 8 of them. That doesn’t sound too bad, right? Well, I have 10 days to complete it using whatever resources, except other students, that I can find. And the questions read like this:

“Describe what happens to bacteria in a food when the water activity is changed from 0.998 to 0.945.”

Granted, that’s not a question, but a statement, but whatever. My brain hurts. I have to discuss every change that happens on a molecular/cellular level to bacteria as water activity changes by an increment of 0.045. Are you crapping your pants yet? Because I am crapping mine.

In other news, I get to take a break from making mugs to make other things today. And I’ve got my normal letterpress duties to attend to, as well. I’m a busy boy these days. Maybe tonight I’ll get to bed at a decent hour. I’m not going to hold my breath, though.

Anywho, enjoy the Dickens out of your Tuesday. More soon. ~SC