Life this week ...

Can't even remember when I last posted. Then again, can't seem to remember when anyone else last posted either ... hint hint!

So life has been interesting of late. Lots of strees (emphasis on the LOTS). But also lots of really great stuff. It seems as though the month of madness known as Novembermay be slowing down. And not a day too late might I add.

Some more than interesting stuff has been going on around here and since the deadline for the chemistry lab was just extended from tomorrow morning bright and early to Sunday morning, I figured I would take the opportunity to catch y'all up on the happenings around here. Starting with tonight and then tomorrow and carrying on in a backwards fashion until I get bored. Or my fingers start to hurt. Or I realize that I should really do my french reading before class tomorrow ... oh ... yes. I will need to remind myself of that one.

So tonight I was in the cafeteria eating supper and each Thursday night it is my student job (along with Petros) to empty the compost. This involves taking three monstrously heay bins to the back of the cafeteria, loading them into a trolley type thing (with wheels), dragging it downt o maintenance and emptying it in the compost bins. It's not hard work, but it is cold and wet. And smelly. And as we learnt tonight more life-threating than previously supposed. So we dragged the cart all the way down to the compost bins and they were extra full because yesterday's compost people forgot to empty it. I got there thirty seconds before Petros, just in time to see a monstrous (have I used that word twice already?) raccoon slinking around the compost. But it ran undre the bridge and I assumed there would be no problem. So Petros got there and went to lift the lid of the bins. He lifted it and then dropped it with a shout. "There's a squirrel in there!"
Me: Are you sure its a squirrel and not a raccoon?
Petros: Umm ... no
Me: Because raccoons are sort of dangerous. And I saw one sneaking around here jsut before you arrived.
Petros: Well ... it was one of those things that hangs around the garbage cans by the computer lab and looks at me at night but never does anything.
Me: uh ... yeah ... that's a raccoon ... and they bite.
It took us sometime to decide what to do. Finally Petros got a long stick and we started trying to lever the lid open to see if the thing had escaped. So he finally opens it and I peer inside (from a considerable distance might I add). And lo and behold there are eight eyes looking at me! Needless to say, I scream and Petros drops the lid. I explain that the things still hadn't escpaped. But that they were babies. So we spent about seven minutes playing with the lid and the stick and trying to prop the lid open for proper raccoon removal. Unfortunately we dropped the lid on one of the raccoon's heads after he got too curious. So now we had angry baby raccoons, and a mother near enough. Thankfully, the first year art class walked by on their way to the parking lot for a field trip. So we hailed them and a few of the mroe courageous ones went and opened it up and chased the poor raccoons out. All in all, it was a very harrowing experience in regards to usual compost duty!

And the computer is freezing something awful and I'm afraid to write more in case I lose it. So I will leave you all with this. And the faint hope that I may pos ttwice in one week! Eh?!?