The president is in Salt Lake City. I can tell because there are guards all around the Grand America hotel. I can also tell because there are signs welcoming the president to Salt Lake City. On the way up, and the way back, the train had to wait for something presidential (not for the president, I have no idea what we were waiting for, certainly not a motorcade...)

They have put concrete barriers all around the presidential compound, otherwise known as the Grand America Hotel.

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Sweet!

I wanted to add Anatomy with lab instead of Physiology this semester. The problem was, so did about a hundred (really, hundred) other people. In addition, it was: people who had dropped without realizing they needed an add code to ad a different section, then people transferring between lab sections. After that it was seniors, then juniors, then finally me and the other sophmores (I’m TWO credits shy of being a junior...) As far as I could tell, all of the freshman either gave up or weren’t in this class.

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Summer is over, as is the break between summer and fall. (I’ll only mention it once, all the green stuff is what I did over the break. Complete redesign of the site, ok, that’s all, it is already a site about me making this site...) So, now that I literally cannot think of anything else about the design that bugs me, or that I need to change, it’s time to WRITE!

Spring semester was kind to me, almost unreasonably so.  I got an ‘A’ in Gen-Chem I, for crying out loud. Summer semester was not as kind. I pulled an ‘A’ in trig, through sheer luck; my professor made it too easy for a college math class. I’m relieved, and it worked out well for me, but a nine-question, two-hour final was a bit silly, I felt totally unprepared going in, but knew it all. Won’t matter in the future, an A’s an A, so time to move on.

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There was an outbreak of Spontaneous Evolution Debate on the train home yesterday. Godless Heathen Athiest in a shouting (literally) match with Righteous Man of God. While it appeared friendly enough it did get pretty heated with Mr. Athiest shouting things like "Seven Vertebrae! Seven! All mammals are related! We all have seven vertebrae in our necks, even giraffes! Grrrr!" to which Mr. Righteous would respond "...because that’s what GOD WANTS!"

My favorite argument?

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It’s nice to hear that, every once in a while, reason overcomes insanity. In Dover, PA, rational people voted out of office EVERY SINGLE school board member who decided that Intelligent Design was biology. Hooray for the democratic process! In other good news, the school board members in Kansas who think they can pull off the same thing are up for re-election before their own regulations go into effect. With any luck, we will find that the people of Kansas are similarly reasonable. I’m still waiting for a similar measure to pass here in Utah.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600154989,00.html

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