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Day’s Verse:
They came to the house of the synagogue official;
and He saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing.
And entering in, He said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep.”
Mark 5:38-39
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Blazing SunsetHere are the highlights of my second day of class. This is assuming that highlights can be negative as well.

  • Doing research on the plant ingredients in various pharmaceuticals, which involved the Merck Index, the McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (which isn’t really concise at all, with 15,600 pages and weighing in at 88 pounds), the Encyclopedia Britannica, and a conference with a reference librarian
  • An enjoyable Plant Diversity class on evolution, which I think must be my sixth or seventh time over that particular information (yes, I remember how old the earth is. It’s really old.)
  • The desperate retrieval of my last textbook from the mail room in an exchange that went thus:

    Me: “The mailroom sent me an email that I had a package, but I couldn’t print the email out.”
    Scary Mailroom Lady: “The email said if you can’t print it out, you need to tell me whether it’s on the shelf, in the office, or on its way to Equatorial Guinea.”
    Me: “But it didn’t—”
    Scary Mailroom Lady: “Shut up, it did.”
    [For reference, this is the exact email they sent me, in its entirety:
    Your Package Has Arrived!

    From…………..: DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

    To…………….: FERGUSON, KATHLEEN
    Box # …………: XXXX
    Tracking Number…: 1Z99V5500300047184
    Carrier………..: United Parcel Service
    Date/Time Received: 8/26/2005 XXXX
    Package Location : OFFICE

    STUDENT MUST PRESENT I.D. CARD!
    PRINTED COPY OF THIS EMAIL WILL EXPEDITE
    PACKAGE PICKUP. IF PACKAGE IS NOT PICKED UP
    WITHIN 10 DAYS, IT WILL BE RETURNED TO SENDER.]
    Me: “But I can see it right there, filed in the F cubbyhole. Number XXXX.”
    Scary Mailroom Lady: “My evil plot has failed! I will have to give you your package after emitting an alarming amount of smoke from my ears and scanning your ugly new ID three times.”

  • A messy enchilada dinner with Ian, followed by hanging out with CBF people at an Ice Cream Social and later a movie with a smaller group of those same people. I got home way past my bedtime and fell asleep slowly. I have now forgotten all the names of everybody I met at the CBF thing and will certainly make a fool of myself next time I meet them.

    • One thought on “The Second Day of Class: A Mailroom Tale”

    1. Yesterday and today’s blogs are such a hoot! Glad you didn’t get arrested or murdered by the evil mailroom lady!

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