Registration and Growth
Several things have been going on recently… aside from the usual school insanity. My semester is over in a few weeks, and that will be a major relief. I think i mentioned before… 6 studio classes is a BAD idea?
I’ll ramble about my millipedes first because it is more interesting than my school schedule.
So they’ve grown! Giger has molted at LEAST one more time, and has grown at least 1/4 inch, which for a millipede that was a little under an inch out of the box, is a major change. I dug him up on Saturday and he’s a lot more round too. His new segments are still white and will need to fill out. My guess is that after he grows into this molt he will be about 1.5 inches. I’m going to try and document his growth so that by the time he’s a big fat hot-dog size monster we’ll have a record of the change and maybe a bit of data on the growth rate, since I have no idea whether he’ll continue to grow regularly at this rate or plateau in a few weeks/months, going through “spurts” like humans do.
Promethea appears to have grown a little as well, a little less than 1/2 inch I think, but it’s noticable. I cleaned out her cage today and um, its obvious she’s eating well. To think I was worried about her not eating before! She just likes the substrate, sphagnum moss, and now the cork bark I put in. You can tell where she’s eaten the cork bark, that was a VERY good purchase. It was just a silly hermit crab decoration thing too. It’s decaying a lot faster than the natural wood we gathered outside, which she didn’t touch. I’ve got to gather some leaves too. Giger slowed down on the cucumber consumption when he disappeared to molt (presumably) a week or two ago, and now he burrows a lot more instead of simply sitting under the moss. I think he’s gotten over being stressed. I haven’t seen Euler at all, outside of the few times we’ve dug her out. Frequently I see Promethea when I lift up the cork bark but NEVER Euler…
Tomorrow I’m going to go try and find Pill Bugs in Fenway Park to help clean the cage so that I don’t have to often. Rumor is they love millipede poops. I may also take advantage of my fertilizer-machines and try to actually grow a plant, maybe a vegetable. Maybe its bad luck, or a black thumb, or something, but I’ve never raised a plant successfully except my immortal cactus, which still miraculously lives after about 3-4 years…
So on another totally unrelated note, I got to register today, pretty much everything lined up just like I wanted, next semester will look like:
Monday:
9-11:45 : The Art and Culture of Japan (one of my friends signed up for this class too so it should be alright)
630-915: Relief Printmaking
Tuesday
8:30-1145: Digital Trio (blah)
230-310: Modern European History at Lesley (with my old philosophy professor! Story about this already, maybe for later)
Wednesday:
9-230: Advanced Printmaking (yay for another 5-hour class \m/)
320-605: Art since 1945 (With Uncle Steck. EPIC win)
Thursday:
Repeat of Tuesday
Friday:
9-1145 Woodworking I/II (with my current wood and stone carving professor)
Total credits: 18, out of which only 4 are “studio” classes, if you can somehow count Digital Trio as a studio class, and both Relief and Wood are 1.5 credit courses…
I’m going to get my degree audit tomorrow so I can better tell where I stand. There was a bit of confusion about my Macroeconomics class, it registered on my unofficial transcript as a Liberal Arts, while my A+P registered as Science Requirement, so I asked about that. Bad news: I misheard her and apparently I can’t substitute it for my Math Requirement. Good news: I CAN substitute it for my Social Science elective. This means the only General Education requirements I have left are liberal arts which will be filled by my 3 remaining history classes (not including next semesters) and another Science class which I’ll try and take at Bunker Hill or something when I qualify for In-state Tution.
Anyway, I’m wiped. This semester has been a killer.
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