Yes!!

Finals are over!  I sold back my textbooks today because they clutter up my room, and I got over a hundred dollars for them.  I guess the day before graduation wouldn't be that crowded around campus...
We're probably going to be rushing through the last landscape prep today, as we still have flowers to plant I think.  But that's not too hard to do.
Got a treat for turning in my institute parking pass.  Given they don't cost anything, I don't get more than that.  Ran into a fellow student who has a final today and a formal presentation.  How'd you like to do that on the last day of school for the semester?
I'm really looking forward to a break.  Took tomorrow off for graduation-hopefully they won't have much to do as all the rush should be today.  At least we shouldn't get bored.

Brain Dead during Finals...

St least it feels that way.  Kept forgetting things and having to run back to get them.  Then yesterday I spent a half hour doing the wrong math problems and having to start over.  I didn't get it all done before today as a result. Argh.  Still turned it in, but I hate doing that.
I have one more to go, and I'm taking that today-unless the testing centers are so crowded I won't have time before work.  That would really stink...
Got my last art project in late last night-which only adds to the brain dead feeling.  But this last test is all I have to do for this semester now, and then I get at least a week's break.  And summer is always a lighter load. 
Still cold, despite the sun shinning brightly for the past few days.  The wind still has teeth too.  We planted flowers and dug tree rings yesterday.  Our department wants to have a extra arbor day this after noon, so we prepped the area yesterday-the holes still need to be dug deeper, but we got an outline ready.

Finals Week

Why my English teacher decided to set our final on a day where class was not scheduled is beyond me.  We have classes on Monday Wednesday Friday but they set the final for Tuesday, as in tomorrow. Sigh.  Math final we get to take in our regular classroom-the teacher figures all the testing centers will be packed during finals week.  Have one final I need to go to the center for, so that's planned for Wednesday after math.
The clouds have moved on, but are quite capable of coming back.  It might have rained last night, but I don't know.  Warmer today though.
Why girls like to wear pants with pre-made holes is beyond me.  I bought a pair without realizing how big those holes are and it's very uncomfortable.  Plus the pants need a long shirt if I don't want to show my underwear...

More Rain

Yep, we were working in a drizzle yesterday.  Got to mix paint (in five gallon buckets-the stuff separated then froze during the winter so we're trying to salvage it) sponge water off the softball field (there was a series of games and the ground got rather sloppy-we use a piece of equipment called dolphins to get the rain water, and special rakes to smooth the ground) weed-when the rain took a break for a few hours, then clear out a borrowed truck-they use it during the winter before cleaning and returning it to the summer users.
Still kind of a drizzle today, but it started hailing first-my poor parents were out walking our dogs when the hail started, so I ran over with a truck to pick them up.
Only three more days left of this semester!  Then I get my associates, and at least a week off from school-summer starts sometime in May.  But I only have three finals-computer science was a final presentation, not a test, and art doesn't do tests like that.  I just have one last assignment.

Cloudy

Okay, getting a little tired of the cold weather thing here.  Wouldn't be so bad if the wind didn't have teeth.  There are clouds today, but not enough for any kind of precipitation.  Slowly warming up for spring.  A friend said that the weather acts like a battle between winter and summer without a glimpse of spring.  Eventually summer wins and things start heating up fast, but its kind of random until that point.
Another for the not cool but funny later list: rolling you ankle while raking leaves out of an island flower bed in a parking lot.  Thankfully no big injury, but you tend to limp for a while after that.  And the funny part was you fell down to your knees before collapsing on your back.  The slow fall deterred injuries in that department (I hope).
Tasted a lot of dirt this week.  We had to rip out some bushes along a road and plan to put them somewhere else, but for now they are partially replanted in one of those parking lot island flowers beds I mentioned.  We had to blow the dirt back off the pavement and the wind was not helping. Sigh...

Gratitude

There are times were good people aren't the ones you see every day.  But there are a lot of times where those you work with are good people.  Like my current set of coworkers who respect my values enough to watch their language.  Or my supervisor who knows the closest I can park in the morning to work is a ten minute walk, so they not only suggest moving the car during my second break (often right before)they will drive me down there so I don't have to walk ten minutes in the dark later.
My coworkers have their little quirks, but that makes work interesting even when what we are doing gets really boring.  We can still talk and work with reducing the output-sometimes we get things done sooner when we talk while doing.
I like that part about work, though running out of things to do means finding more...

Survey's

As the semester comes to a close it seems my email in box get flooded with people wanting me to take an online survey for just about everything.  I just got one for global warming.
Plus we have the teacher/class evaluations that are due as well.
Impressed a coworker with something I tried yesterday.  We were putting tools away at the end of our shift and both of our hands were full.  Rather than put down something to enter the combination that would open the shed door, I used the push broom handle I was holding to enter the numbers.  I didn't think it would work, but it did.  Granted, they had to help hold open the door so we could put a jam in to avoid repeating that little experiment...