You know you had a good time on your birthday when you don’t get to blog about it until a week later! My day started normally enough until I got to the office where a very interesting box awaited me on my desk. Given it’s dimensions, I was a tad apprehensive that my day was …
Here at Iowa State, much like at other US universities, graduate students often get an office in which to work. The higher of a rank of grad student that you are the more elaborate the office usually. In my case, I actually share an office with four other people. Two of whom I’ve yet to …
One of the things that is most fun about being in school again is the little surprises that you encounter on a daily basis. Directly outside the building my office is in is what they call “central campus”. It’s an enormous green patch with the campanile and a few trees, but mostly grass. It was …
One of the things that I seem to remember about college the first time around was all the moves that I made. In about a year and a half, I moved 5 times. Which isn’t even a lot for some students. I remember one girl telling me that she moved 5 times her first year …
The past 6 weeks or so have been unbelievably hectic for me. I am, for all intents and purposes, living in two places. I feel like I am moving on a weekly basis as I pack-up clothes and kit and go from the apartment to the farm, farm to the apartment. Between these commutes, I …
I have been making flowers today in a couple of different forms. I spent most of the morning and a lot of the afternoon sitting in the shadow of the conservatory on an upturned former cat litter bucket wearing a t-shirt and jeans and my birks. I filled pot after green plastic pot with potting …
Tonight I finished my final term paper as an undergrad. There was no blare of trumpets or very official man in a suit to shake my hand, yet it is done. All I have to do now is walk, and let’s face it, I don’t have to do that to graduate (I would only …
Sarah Jane Humke 