Not one single post in September. Not like I didn't have the time.
My garden is on the down-swing for the year. It worked out pretty well and I learned a few things. I'm really pleased at how my homemade pesto came out. Heavy on the garlic and unbelievably delicious! I've been eating it several times a week. The salsa came out pretty good, but is nowhere near as hot as I had hoped it would be. I should be able to make at least one more batch and will try a little harder finding some decent hot peppers. I'm going to try a few things over the winter that hopefully will make the garden even less work next year. Among others, I think I might try some corn, potatoes, basil, tomatoes, cilantro, spinach, and plenty of onions next year.
I'm getting used to the whole school routine again. The first week was a lot harder than I had anticipated, but this week was much easier. I leave at about 8:55am, drive to the Lloyd Center and park my car in the Sears parking lot, walk to the MAX stop at Holliday Park, and get to PSU about 10 minutes before my first class starts at 10am. One of these days I'll probably be late because they have to raise the steel bridge for the larger ships going up the Willamette River. I'd be safer getting to the MAX stop about 15 minutes earlier. Its just that I already have to sit around for over 2-1/2 hours between my second and third classes and I don't relish hanging around for even longer. Cheap insurance I suppose and if I do get delayed I'm sure I'll wish that I had taken an earlier train. Coming home is pretty much the same in reverse. My last class gets out at 6:30 and I have to walk about 6 or 7 block from my last class to the MAX stop and it always seems like the train is always leaving just as I can see it from about 3 blocks away. But its only about 15 minutes until the next one arrives. I end up getting home about 7:25pm. I usually only eat an energy bar, a sandwich, and some chips during the day and have been losing weight without doing anything else. I hope this trend continues for a little while.
My classes are definitely at least a step or two up in difficulty than the classes at PCC. Luckily there isn't a huge amount of papers - two 6-page essays and two 2 page essays, although one of these is optional. But there is a lot of reading. The philosophy text is probably the easiest to read, then the microeconomics book (the only traditional "text-book" like you might expect), then the public utility regulation book. That one is a killer. Not fun to read at all.
I need to get ready to go back to PSU this afternoon. I'm going to one of the economic seminars that they have several times every term. It's not for any class, although there is a class that attends these and writes papers on the presentations. I just want to go because it will probably be interesting.
