Good news, finally made some more measurable progress in studying this weekend. And this week I’m going to really kick it into high gear. Today begins the last week of the first summer session. I have two more homework assignments to grade then I won’t have any work to do for the rest of the summer except to study for the qual. And I had some checkpoints that I wanted to be at with regards to studying before the end of the first summer session, so I’m going to get there by Friday/Saturday.
In completely unrelated news, I have some follow-up to my previous entry about the children-in-the-supermarket-incident. I was in Best Buy the other day and a mom had pulled her cart out of the way of the main traffic, but her child had wandered off. The girl started meandering her way back to the cart, but stopped in the middle of one of the narrower aisles and was just kind of looking around. It stopped me in my tracks so I wouldn’t run her over, and someone was coming down the aisle in the opposite direction I was, and they were stopped too. The mother immediately walked over and grabbed the child and brought her back to the cart. As the other shopper and I were walking away now that the obstruction was removed, I could hear the mother pointing at us and telling her child sternly “You need to stay out of the way. You stopped THAT lady from going where she was going and THAT man from going where he was going.” It was nice and refreshing to hear a parent try to instill the consequences of their actions to a kid, as opposed to completely letting it go and not caring who their children inconvenience. The terribly annoying supermarket kids were at least 5 years older than the Best Buy girl, and they WERE old enough to know the consequences of their actions, where this girl was still learning. So I witnessed a little beacon of hope in a mass of stupid kids & parents. I just thought I’d post something positive on the subject so people don’t think I am completely heartless.
Anyway, it’s really heating up here in Texas. If I get out of the house in the morning, when it’s still ONLY 93 degrees outside, it feels COOL and refreshing. In the middle of the afternoon it’s usually above 100 and it is a noticeable difference from the morning temperatures. Still, I’m surviving and keeping cool and hydrated. And I’ll trade this every day for 2-3 months in exchange for the crappy northern winters. Down here, if it gets snowy or icy or too cold, everything shuts down and I can just stay home. Up north, it’s snowy/icy/cold every day for months, so you just have to go about your normal life. Yuck.
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