When I went to bed last night, the weather boy on NBC told me it would probably hit 108 Monday. So I deliberately picked out an outfit that would be business appropriate, but breathe while I walked to class, and then keep me warm in the super air-conditioned auditorium. Tougher than it sounds! I finally got my act together and made it to class on time. They had little name tents and magnetic name tags waiting for us at the table - alphabetically of course - so I get to sit on the aisle directly in front of the prof all day. He was fascinating though, he is from Australia and earned his PhD at Washington, then taught at Rice. Easy to listen to, but I could not for my life interpret his handwriting! Thank goodness for powerpoint.
I have pretty much lost my attention span. I did really well for the first three hours, and when the break came around I had not been thinking about it. Then, we had two more hours till lunch, and about a half-hour in I started thinking about food and could NOT concentrate about the amortization schedule of Home Depot's 2006 Balance Sheet. So the afternoon was fairly excruciating as well. Then the ten minute walk back to the apartment(I'm not exaggerating - it's a ten minute walk across the street and around campus to get to the lecture hall - but in 108 it feels like a half-hour!) all I could think about was a nap!
Two triumphs today: I figured out how to program the VCR, and I must have absorbed something today because I am already done with my homework! I met two girls from Boulder. One is older and only grew up there - she's been in South America and on the East coast since she graduated from Boulder High. The other one, however, moved down here from The Summit, where Jay and Angie used to live across the street from us. How random!
After the sun goes down I am planning to sneak out for a dip in the pool. It's not as warm as I remember them being, so hopefully it will be refreshing enough.
Hope all is well wherever you may be.
Love,
Merix
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