my first day of school

Had my first class today. Chemistry, it was. And exceedingly unlike UNM it was, as well. i'm going to a community college here to knock out a bunch of prereqs, and the differences are large thus far. For one, i actually shall have (as of tomorrow morning) paid more for books than i did for tuition. Just spent 300 bones on two books and a lab manual. That's painful. 'Course, it's also incentive to pass the friggin' classes. Also, though, the class itself was different. i walked into the room where the lecture was to be, and thought, "How are they gunna fit 400 people in this room?" Lo (and behold, if you will) the lecture capped at somewhere in the vicinity of 40 souls. i guess i got used to needing field glasses to see the prof. ---and to be truthful, this poor mousy lady really could do with a mic. Then we started into the lecture proper: also a positive divergence. At its crescendoed pinnacle we learned that it is, in fact, matter that both has mass and takes up space.

Now, i 'spect it'll get steeper and faster in due time, but i gotta say that present acceleration is just about right for this old dull guy. Now let's see if i can drag me arse outta the feathers for a 7:30 lab tomorrow morning.

"Only 8 or 10 more years, buddy, and you might be gainfully employed. Almost there."