I just went to see the Bioterrorism professor. At first I kind of freaked out because when I got there (his office hours are 7-8 MW, I went around 7:15), there were at a minimum 50 people waiting in line outside of his office. But luckily it turned out that either they were sophomores trying to get into his Intro to Sociology class or others trying to get into his Death and Dying class; very few of us (actually I didn't see anyone else) trying to get into Bioterrorism.

It turns out that they closed it to undergrads at the request of a COLLEGE dean, not at the request of the graduate school deans, so what the registrar told me was complete bullshit. The Medical School is fine with undergrads taking it along with their microbiology and medical students...and the SFS was fighting to get it back (I think that started with me, cause that was the first they had heard of it). The reason they didn't want it offered to undergrads (IN THE COLLEGE) is because it was counting as a sociology elective (which the prof said was fine for upperclassmen) but all these underclassmen were trying to take it when they couldn't get into the Intro class, which he agreed was ridiculous. But he also agreed that it was ridiculous not to let SFSers in and said I very much should be in the class, and signed my Add/Drop form without hesitation (ok with some hesitation because every time he did something he would stop and tell some tangental story) but he also included an underlined note saying I request it. So that was nice. And hopefully that registrar won't give me too much more trouble.

So here's my final schedule:
Monday 4:15-6:05 Islam in the West (be very careful not to accidentally say Islam OF the
West because then the dept profs will get all over you cause apparently that is a different class.)
Tuesday/Thursday 11:40-12:55 African Military Conflicts/Resolutions
2:40-3:55 Ethics and International Relations
Thursday 5-6:30 Bioterrorism.

So it should be good. I like.



Also today i got my fridge. It is bigger than most dorm fridges, and for some reason I had imagined that it was going to be brown, and indeed it is! So now I can start cooking me some food (as soon as I go to the supermarket), as I presently still have not gotten a meal plan and don't know if I intend to do so. (Cafeteria meals, if I got 75/semester would be $9, and if I got 45 would be $11 each.) So I think it's probably a lot better to cook and even order food...for example on Sunday I got orange tofu at Harmony, and besides being delicious, they give you a whole bunch. I ate as much as I wanted, and then had lunch and dinner for Monday (granted it was a small lunch and dinner but at that point I really didn't have anything else to eat, and I still only have one plastic knife for my utensils...and no plates...and no pots & pans. So it looks like I will be eating out lots in the coming days, until I can get to Target. And I don't know when that will be, I guess I will just have to take the Metro way out in Maryland. Maybe on Saturday E will go with me. On Friday before my afternoon class (extra meeting of my Monday class) we are going to Marshall Fields to look for clothes for her. Also we may take the MARC bus out to Camden Yards on monday for the orioles/twins game. But S said maybe Landon can take us, but not all the way to Camden, because he is driving out in the morning and back in the evening. but we can just hop a bus or something to the game that way, and it would be easy too.


Well that's my story for today. I put more maps up, room looks better every day. Also today the Chimes (all-male old school (as in not cool, not as in yay) a capella group) were standing right under my window singing incessantly for an hour. AN HOUR!!!

Oh, and there was a mass this morning that if you go to it you can get a free lunch afterwards...I didn't go to it, I was at work (ok I wouldn't have gone anyways) but I wanted to get a lunch...but aha, those tricky caterers are onto folks like me and decided you had to have a program from the mass to get a lunch. But they never counted on my super-spy skills of stealing a program from some honest mass-goer and grabbing a free yummy lunch. (Always go with vegetarian, it's always better quality.)

Also I met with my dean (not my major's dean but my favorite dean) and we spent 20 minutes just chatting and talking shit about Bush. It was nice, now he is off to travel round the world as he and his wife usually do in the fall semester, but he insisted that I take his course next semester. So I said ok. So if everything works out, I will be taking his class, Albright's class, a geopolitics class, (and something else). That is about the best schedule anyone could have, yay!

Umm also I went to study on the Esplanade, which apparently most people have not remembered exists yet (yay!) and then I was going home cause the sun was making me sleepy but then I saw Erin who was getting lunch, so I got a drink and we went back up. Then she showed me where the med school's bookstore is, then I went home and actually did some studying... then I went to work out and when I got to the gym everyone in the world was there so there were 6 people in line for treadmills, a million boys trying to look cool on the weight machines, and blah. So I couldn't even do that. Oh well. I went home and had first dinner...the bread I bought is disgusting for PB sandwiches. So i will have to have 2nd dinner (which also won't be good), then studying, then maybe watching some more GOP because the professor who hosts it is really nice and she also gives us free food and we don't really watch the speeches, everyone just makes fun of the republicans.

Um, so THAT'S my story for the day and if I think of anything else I will tell it.

(PS someone better comment soon on reading this cause otherwise I will think that I put all this effort into writing super-long posts that are too long for Summer EVER to consider reading but are fascinating stories of my life, and then I will be sad. Bridget I know you check in, say hi!)