Research Break

I promised to blog, so I thought I would do it before I forgot. (And tomorrow's Saturday, so I don't know when I'll wake up...)

I appear to have caught a cold (either that or my allergies have crossed some sort of weird threshold), after having some laryngitis for a week, and actually being vaguely sick for a month or so. I'm sure a lot of that is due to stress, but being sick is stressful too, so it doesn't help.
I have been trying to avoid stress and get better by not focusing very hard on school, which has involved skipping three classes this week and calling off work for Saturday. Unfortunately that has backfired and I have a large amount of paper writing to do before next week and have to do it now (in between sneezes). I'm rather confident on two of them, but my Phonology paper doesn't even have a set topic yet (I asked for an extension) and my Aquaculture synopsis is going to be tough. Doable, but tough.

And in the midst of this I am supposed to be signing up for Summer and Fall classes, which is a bit difficult. I have decided as of now to double major in Linguistics and Japanese Studies (because I don't like the JS major anymore but don't want to waste all of the classes I took for it), which means I am dropping my Agriculture minor. That brings my number of Happy Classes down to one... which is Japanese, so I guess I'm doing something right there.

I'm also looking at taking Hawaiian for my Linguistics requirement. It's either that or Spanish, just because Spanish would be easy.

I said I would talk about my Aquaculture tours from last week, but I've already written a lot... so it will go fast.
We have two classes a week, so we used the class times to go on tours of the university farm and Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Center. It was very exciting! The farm had sturgeon and tilapia, as well as some gorgeous carp and miscellaneous fish. It was pretty small, but nice! PACRC was much more intense, with not only fish but oysters, microalgae, and hydroponics systems. They also have huge tanks that were meant for raising ahi, but it's difficult to raise marine fish in captivity. And apparently ahi die off from running into walls, so that didn't work so well.

Tomorrow is Earth Day at the farm, and I was hoping to go, but between being sick and homework it doesn't seem like a good idea. If I do go it will only be to see the goats anyway. I think that is reason enough.

A hui hou!