Saturday, April 30, 2005
Whitney and I sallied forth half an hour before we were due, in order to volunteer at the animal shelter (basing our progression on the directions posted to the honors society website). However, we were led astray, arriving half an hour late to a facility where the animals are all kept outside; we had presumed this would be sort of like the SPCA. As we both despise and are slightly afraid of animals, we avoided walking any of the dogs or cats, opting instead to wander around and have our pictures taken for the society photo album (when the photographer asked why we hadn't gotten a dog to walk yet, I told him we were hunting for a good one).
Yesterday I mandatorily volunteered to plant things for campus-wide Arbor Day (amusingly, no one was permitted to plant trees), but upon surveyance of the requirements (two hours, hot sun, dirty hands, boredom) I merely registered, collected my free t-shirt, and vanished to attend the German poetry hour put on by the M.A. candidates. Then Rachel finally found me to take me out for a birthday dinner before I had to work; we originally chose Carino's, but opted for some place we had never heard of after the hostesses at Carino's informed us of the forty-minute wait. The alternate restaurant had an excellent appetizer and decent dessert, but the main dishes were unsatisfactory. Oh, well.
Tomorrow I must study for finals.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 5:14 PM]