Another Year

I've decided to stay for another year at UMass. I was planning to stay just one extra semester, but it was going to be so rushed and stressful. Staying another year just made sense. Now I get to take a couple of extra courses that really interest me, and that will probably help to shape my research interests as I enter graduate school. Here's my Fall schedule:

Anthropology- Culture Through Film
Communications- Media, PR and Propaganda
Economics- Economics of Cooperative Enterprise
History- Problems in World Civilization

I'm pretty excited about all of those courses, it should be a good semester.

Recently I took my camera onto campus to take a few pictures of the showcase garden near the Durfee Conservatory- there are these beautiful pink flowers called Gomphrena Fireworks (I think) that I've been meaning to take pictures of. Mark had to run an experiment in the lab one Saturday a week or so ago, so I came with him and spent the whole time taking pictures by the Conservatory.




Gomphrena






Echinacea

Earlier that week I'd been playing with my filters around the yard, and of course, Ivy came over to keep me company.



That's all for now- it's getting late, and I have to work at 8:30 tomorrow. Another day, another dollar. Thankfully my work day will be followed by stopping by People's Market to meet with a few other peeps (People's Market Employees are called peeps) to get going on the start-up tasks for the semester. Things are going to start getting a little more enjoyable in my life :) Of course, another year at school means another year working at the Market, which is my heart and soul. I wasn't ready to leave anyway!