So, yesterday was a relatively mild day. Other than being a space cadet most of the day, it was pretty good. I can’t decide if the time change altering my sleep pattern made my brain into tapioca or if life in general did that. Whatever it was, no amount of chili cheese burritos seemed to help. Coffee helped for a while. Until I crashed.

Let’s see what exciting things happened yesterday. Hmm… well I got some of my fake smoking accessories in the mail. Stocking up for the trip(s). And I got an update on my Chacos. I sent my babies off to the factory to be repaired and missed them a lot today seeing as how it was beautiful and warm, so I sent the repair crew an email asking about how they were doing. The sandals, not the repair crew. The woman in charge of rebuilding my shoes and making them better, faster, stronger, and more efficient emailed me back to tell me that they are awaiting the “final sew” before being sent home to me. She also included a photo:

Apparently mine are somewhere in that pile. I hope the repair crew enjoyed the Marathon Bars that I sent them. I figured they get tired repairing all of those sandals and could use a pick me up every once in a while.

After work and tutoring, I headed off to class. We ran the first of many experiments last week and I was excited to get the results back. Turns out that steam pasteurization works as well at getting rid of E. coli as rubbing your steak directly on a cow’s butthole. Who knew?!

After this exciting discovery, we ran another simple experiment testing out 3M’s claim that their new petri film works as well as a petri dish. Once we finished our serial dilutions and plated the mess, we split for the week. No class next week. It’s spring break. Whoo!

Today is exciting simply because Star Noble is making me mocha cupcakes as a “thank you for cleaning the press for me because I was too sick to return to class”. So, I’ll be swinging by the letterpress shop at some point today. Tomorrow I’ve got to go up to the school to meet with my advisor about fall classes. I guess I should take a look and see what they’re offering.

Well, I’d better get to the studio. I’m sure Le Duke has some special Hell for me today. More soon. ~SC