well... i'm back at the good old 'ville now. (can you sense the enthusiasm?) i'm glad to see all my buds, but this school work stuff is not my favorite. i have a chemistry lab this semester. you may be thinking, "she's an english major. why in the world would she have to take chem. lab?" i wish i could answer that question for you, but i have yet to figure it out myself. however, i do have a theory. i think they make everybody take a chem. lab so they can make tons of money on the ridiculously over priced books. or it could just be that everyone is out to get me. so today i had the first lab session. all we had to do was weigh some things and mix some other things. you'd think that i'd be able to do that in a reasonable amount of time. i'm sad to inform you that that is not the case. the class was supposed to be over at 20 after 4. i left at quarter of 5. AND i still hadn't finished any of my calculations. why? because i don't know how to do them!!!! i'm just THAT dumb! so tomorrow i have to treck all the way back to sci tech to hand in the lab report that everyone else in the class finished. boy, do i feel intelligent. but finally... some good news... first, we have the internet back (it's been down since we got here because of some viruses), and second, i'm going home for a long weekend tomorrow. thank goodness the first week of hell is almost over...