Road Call '08 (back tracking)

We had lost some film a while back and recently recovered it. What great fun to develop these shots taken during out March 2007 trip from MA to Oregon.

1. Wall Drug Jack-a-lope
2. SD rest area
3. Portland OR's world famous Voodoo Donuts

One Down

Today I went to PDX and took the English Literature Subject GRE. I was much dismayed to see that almost all of the questions were British Lit pre-1800... egh. This of course is a section of lit that I know almost nothing about. I answered what I could and left some blank since blank spaces don't really count against you. It was three hours of testing that I would have been happier without, and 150 bucks I would rather have spent on --well on just about anything-- but sadly the Subject GRE is needed by most of the schools I'm looking at.

I registered for the test before I decided not to apply immediately for the Ph.D. Since then, I've decided to put off applying to Ph.D. programs in hopes that the bridge position might be available and attainable. If that falls through I figure there's plenty of other things I could do for a year while I'm waiting to see who wants me as a Ph.D. candidate.

In other news I need to get cracking on my thesis... egh. I bought some Eco and more Wharton at Powells today, but really I need to stop reading, and start writing.

Zooliteracy

Today we took a break from schoolwork and went on a date to the Oregon Zoo.  

We've been wanting to check out the zoo for sometime. I've never been, and Bird hadn't been in a long time. We had a lovely time and invested in an annual pass. Polars, Beaver and Bats were among my favorite exhibits. 

Sadly our fellow zoo goers were remarkably irritating. The number of people with young children who either refused to answer their kids' questions altogether or gave them misinformation was amazing! The Oregon Zoo, like most zoos, provides ample signage indicating what animals are in the exhibits, where those animals come from etc... Rather than read the signs, or tell their children to read the signs most parents gave amazingly false answers such as "those are monkeys" while looking at an enclosure of orangutans which is topped by an enormous sign announcing not only the name of the animals inside but the meaning of the word Orangutan.