Your Industrial Art For The Day

Turns out it wasn't the filter on Nancy that was the problem. Not willing to undergo more petrol exposure, I took it to the dealer for them to mess with. Hopefully they'll have it fixed by Tuesday. I rented a Chevy Cobalt in the mean time. When I picked the old Lady up from work on Friday I told her I had traded Nancy in for the new Chevy. I though she was going to have a breakdown right then and there.

Car Culture: Like Lining Up to Get Kicked in the Pubic Symphysis

I decided to drive CK to work on my way to campus to study diligently and take my Bio Lab Practical. Four blocks up the road, on the St John's bridge, I lost all power at anything greater than idle speed. I managed to make it home after dropping the wife at the bus stop. The truck was hopeless and I needed to get to class, so I bummed a ride from our neighbor.
The test went well, and I'll get the results Tuesday or so. Afterward, unable to hitch a ride back over the west hills, I had to take the Green Limousine (they aren't really green here, but they aren't green in Chicago anymore either). Normally it takes me 10 minutes to drive the 6 miles to class. Two buses, two trains, two missed transfers, 2 hours and 38 miles later I was home. I don't exagerate one bit. There is no direct bus from that campus over the West Hills to St John's, so I had to go alll the way around through the Sunset Highway tunnel to get home.
Tomorrow I get to fix the fuel system on Nancy. I wonder if Chevy was nice enough to put isolation valves on either side of the fuel filter for a drip free change out? I think we all know the answer to that, even without looking.

Real A's vs Community College A's

I've two giant A&P tests this week. The integument and skeleton/osseous tissue lab and written tests. The written was today, and I got a 62 out of 70. In most classes this would not be an A, however the standard is only 85% for a 4.0 in this particular class. I was really feeling it for this test, and am a little disappointed. I needed the real A (90+ percent if you will) in order to take some pressure off of the lab test on Thursday. Point and Name for the Appendicular and Axial skeleton might be a little tough.

Taxpayers

My band played for peeps last night for the first time. It was a trainwreck.
Hopefully it was just the jitters on the part of the lead vocalist and can be fixed. We're better than we played last night, but I'm not willing to spend time while singer boy figures out how to transfer his natural charisma into stage presence. He's got to get that in line pronto.
The Mello Outs where great, they had a great surf/ surf punk mix. The Decliners lead singer was doing his best Greg Graffin impression, which always gets high marks in my book, I'm a giant Bad Religion fan. Pi, the chicka that is Heartache Pagoda is a noise artist, and she played the steel bowl of water and copper pipe, YAY! We collected a couple of boxes of food, but next time I'm backing Dustin's (from the Mello Outs) plan and holding a Bombs Not Food benefit.

I'll Give you Lamina Propria

What a week. Mondays are always difficult, since my once a week research paper class is in the evenings. Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday I had a test each day. Tuesday went well, except for one question I misread. Although N doesn't account for 96 of one's body weight alone, C, N H and O do. It is just a very rare occurrence that I misread a question, and to miss such a 'gimme' is a shame. Tuesday was Chemistry, which was fine except for a dozen points worth of questions on Dalton. I wish the instructor would cover some useful material so she'd have real questions to ask. If the material is difficult it tends to grab my attention. Following along to a lecture when I'm all over the material is more of an exercise in self discipline. Thursday was Bio Lab practical test, which I felt much more prepared for than the written test, and I should have those grades by Tuesday since that proffessor is Johnny on the Spot when it comes to grading.
At last Friday is here. I'll spend some time with Esmerelda today, write some research paper tomorrow and watch the game on Sunday. Go Bears!