Last Saturday Night

So it is the last Saturday night before the semester starts and now I'm sitting here thinking "Oh. Em. Gee."

Yesterday was the first-year orientation with a potluck afterwards. I got there at 5:30, exactly when the orientation was supposed to end and the potluck to begin so I could talk about the AGSA.

Dr. Loewe was still talking when I got there, so I sat quietly in a chair to the side and listened. He was talking about the courses acceptable for your degree and it got me to thinking about how many 500-600 levels I'm going to need to take. I looked up my unofficial transcript today and it looked like this:

ANTH 487 (3 credits) - A
ANTH 501 (3 credits) - A
GEOL 443 (4 credits) - B
ANTH 451 (4 credits) - B
ANTH 510 (3 credits) - A
ANTH 561 (3 credits) - A
GEOG 400 (4 credits) - A

Shock #1: ANTH451. When I took it, I was under the impression it was a 451/551 which means you get the appropriate course number depending on your student status and how much work you do. I did all of the graduate level assignments (the undergrads had fewer assignments) so naturally it was unpleasant to see that it was being counted as an undergraduate course.

You need 21 credits of 500+ level work, so if 451 doesn't get changed to 551, my grad credits go from 13 to 9, which is NOT cool. I've emailed three professors about it, so hopefully this all gets sorted out.

Shock #2: the realization that I might only be granted 9 grad credits. When I registered for classes this summer I didn't even think about the requisite levels (stupid, I know) so I had a 300 level (because Dr. Lipo wants me to take it) and two 400 levels (because I thought they were the best for me).

The 400's I registered for are GEOG classes. So what I think I have to do is drop them and take two 500 GEOG classes...but I really wanted to take the one 400 classes. I think I'm going to email Dr. Rodrigue and ask her if she thinks I could handle the two 500 classes and that 400 class too. The last thing in the world that I want is to take 4 classes again, especially with my job and my promotion to Presidency of the AGSA, but this is my degree and my career and my future here...if I have to do this, I'll figure it out.

I have spent today eating (I'm already 1,000 calories over my limit today...but I also don't care. The semester starts soon and I'll have a lot less time sitting at home thinking about my kitchen.) and watching tv. I watched the original Die Hard movie (which I love), the Vikings game (which was alternately thrilling and dreadful) and a little of the Lions game (which was kinda funny), and now I'm watching Food Network. Three Chopped episodes in a row, and now it's Iron Chef - Battle Figs. I'm just looking at the heaping silver salvers of figs of all kinds and drooling openly.

I have also been reading (for my thesis proposal), working on Rebecca (admittedly not that much), and struggling with a damnably hard puzzle. All the pieces take one of two forms (which makes it harder, almost) and it's a picture of jellybeans. Just a field of jellybeans - all different colors, but nothing else. No edges, no coins, no Where's Waldo, just jellybeans. I got the edge done last night, and I'm slowly filling in the middle. VERY slowly.

Oh well, I should probably email Dr. Rodrigue before I forget yet again, and then I'll get back to Rebecca...or my puzzle...