Life is continuing on for me. The new semester has started, and I am finding that I am learning from my classes. The problem with my major, is a lot of it gets repetitive and I tend not to have classes that challenge me and force me to learn. But this semester, I don’t think I have a bad class among them anymore. I actually did have one, an urban forestry class, where I really wasn’t learning a thing. I don’t need it, so I finally asked myself why I was taking it. And dropped it. Which brings me down to 15 credits–the lightest semester I’ve ever taken. Sort-of. My classes are a little harder.

I have soil nutrient bio-availability, which is a fancy way to say I learn about how plant nutrients work in the soil.  Environmental plant physiology is one of my toughest and I like it a lot because of that. I have to use my analytical side of my brain to work equations relating physics to plant growth.  And I actually have to really pay attention in class and study afterwords to really understand it. I haven’t had a class like this for ages. Senior seminar is predictably boring and I would appreciate any suggestions for a 6-10 page paper for it. Residential landscape design is challenging my artistic side, and I have come to realize that I cannot letter. So I print the words out and trace–which makes it really pretty. I really hope I’ll be good at design–I think I will, I’ve got all these ideas of what I could do in yards from the past three years. It’ll be fun to actually incorporate them into landscape designs.  I have art symposium again, yoga for fun, plant pathology also for fun (hey cultures of bacteria are fascinating), and two institute classes, one with Joe.

So that was really long, but now you know what I am doing. Plus my two jobs which I continue. I get to head up a community education class in March for Extension–so any ideas would be appreciated.

Life is great. It’ll all change after April–I will be done with 16 years of school. That’s most of my life. And I’m actually not necessarily looking forward to it. I like school. But I guess we always have to move on to bigger and better things. And just so you know–Joe is wonderful. Lucky to have married the guy–he’s the best thing in my life.

Yesterday we went hiking in the rain. Only for a couple hours because it was wet, but it was the prettiest hike I have been on in a long time. The snowy landscape was combined with mist. Actually reminded me a little of the coast. Horrible day to forget the camera.