The State News liked my cake...

Ta da, Becca's in the State News. Teehee.

Happy National Coming Out Day!

The LBGT caucuses on campus do activities throughout the week to support individuals who are coming out. Today was a picnic. Our theme this year is "The Wizard of Oz."

Tada, the cake I baked for the occasion:

And thanks to Sarah from church and her mother for initial cake baking.

How does this happen?

Okay. I am definitely being assigned and recommended for random things by people. I just received the following email:

"Hello, Ms. Rebecca Farnum,
I am contacting you on behalf of Associate Provost Terry Curry to thank you for your willingness to serve on the All-University Awards Committee to select Excellence-in-Teaching Citations. We need only one representative for the college, and have asked your colleague to serve.
Since you will not be serving on the committee, I provide, for your convenience, below to be removed from your calendar:
1. Tuesday, October 20, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
2. And, Tuesday, November 10, 5:30 - approx. 8:30 p.m.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Betsy"

Well, Betsy, you're welcome. I had absolutely no idea I was invited/willing to do this. But okay. Though those time slots do actually work for me, so I could have done it. Shame...

Orgo Exam

Well, the professor is a terrible teacher. But he writes a beautiful exam. I'm fairly happy with life right now.

I'm off to the Kellogg Biological Station for an Honors Biology Lab field trip. I have no idea if I'll have internet access or not. So...love y'all! Have a great weekend. : )

Skipped a Meeting!

I skipped a meeting today to give me a bit more time to study for orgo and not be rushing around. I said "no!" I hope you're all proud of me; it wasn't easy. But the girl learns, slowly.

(I would have been late. And my contribution to these meetings feels incredibly minimal, and I get very little out of them. But still. I had to say "no." And that's not fun.)

How Nobel of You, Barack

Hope you enjoy my title, there.

Anyways - thoughts? In case you haven't heard, Barack was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Many are shocked; he wasn't mentioned as a forerunner.

Deserved?
Too early?
"Meddling" in policy?
Appropriate statement of support and encouragement?

BS 148H Fungi

So a mushroom walks into the bar.
Bartender says “Get out, we don’t want your kind here.”
Mushroom says: “Why? Can’t you see I’m a fun-gi?”

Why did the fungi leave the party?
Because there wasn’t mush-room!

It's possible that we also saw what was described by our professor as a mold "orgy." I love this class...

An addendum:
It's further possible that the statement: “Let us introduce the concept of the vaginal ecosystem" was just made.
We were talking about yeast infections.
I seriously love this class...