So today was full of close calls through and through. It started when I woke up and immediately read a chapter of my book and wrote an essay over that chapter and emailed it to my professor exactly when it was due. After that I decided to fart around for a while then take a late shower.

My shower ran really long and I left at 2:07 to get to my 2:30 class that's a minimum of 20 minutes (sometimes 30-40 minutes) away plus up to ten minutes to park. Not only did I make it there in 19 minutes flat while barely speeding, I also took only 30 seconds to park and entered the building at exactly 2:29, seating myself right at 2:30.

Class went really well, and when it was over I headed back out to the parking lot. As I approached the aisle my car was on, I noticed hundreds...thousands of little dots flying around frantically in the sunlight. It wasn't until I was right in the middle of the cloud of bugs that I realized I had walked directly into the middle of a swarm of bees. a bee hive had fallen or something and the entire swarm was pulsating around me.

Amazingly not a single one landed on me and I just sort of...walked through them. I didn't even get nervous even though I'm deathly allergic to LOTS of things, probably including bee stings. You may not know this, but bees are so small and fast that they're impossible to photograph effectively even if you're in the middle of a swarm (as far as conveying how many there were, at least) and if I'd stood far away to get them all in the shot, none of them would have showed up in the photo! My solution was to go to my car, drive back within its protection, snap a photo through my window of a few of the stationary ones and come home:


(every one of those blurs is another bee near that spot also...and I swear the whole swarm was like this!)

After that everything was gravy...I went home and finished up a project, went back to school and presented it, learned that someone else did their project on the same person (wasn't supposed to happen) and I claimed responsibility (it really was my fault) but there weren't any consequences and the thing went really well!


So do you like the new version of this skin? I think it has its own good qualities but I'm not so sure it's better than the last one, honestly.




So the House passed the Health Reform Bill and the President signed the Matt Shepard Act into law since my last journal! We lost progress in Maine in the ballot measure, but I'm sure that will soon enough be reversed. The Health Reform Bill might not pass the Senate especially with people like Joe Lieberman in the mix, but hopefully it will soon. I really need coverage as does my family.

As far as voting here in Texas goes, I either voted yes or abstained from the 11 proposed amendments to the constitution. None of them were very debated and all 11 won with a landslide...especially the measure that further limits our cities' and state's rights to claim eminent domain on citizens' houses.