It's been over a week and I'm in the middle of Brothers Karamazov. It's ok, kinda preachy in the beginning but gets better. Meanwhile on the Clie I finished A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert Sapolsky. Not at all what I expected. I guess I thought he'd give a neuroscientist's insight to baboon behavior. Nope, nothing like that at all. Most of the book wasn't even about the baboons, but of his experiences with the rest of the country his troop of baboons occupied.

Made a trip back to the UA campus last week, twice. I thought I would go Wednesday and talk to someone that knew something about the math courses and their readiness test, but the one lady that had all the answers, apparently, wasn't around... or she was but just locked away in her office. I tried her door twice. It was the first place I went to when I arrived, figuring I would ask about whether I needed to take the placement test, then go take it if it was indeed needed. After leaving her locked door, with her possibly behind it, and mosied on over to the Admin building to see about getting the paperwork rolling for my GI benefits. That was easy enough, should be anyway. I just hope I can remember to call them each and every month to remind them I'm still full time and yes please send the check next month.

After that I went to the Physiology building to find out about that course. There is a waiting list 100s of students long. Put my name on it, then walked over to the Language building to talk to Mary, who was out the week before. She was there, and was ready to sign me up for basic Spanish, but I still had the Orientation hold on, and had to take care of that first. That's a long story, but suffice it to say I went over to the Science building to see about taking care of that, and they flat out told me that they wouldn't do anything until the 30th at 1:00, when transfer students were finally allowed to register for classes. With nothing else to do I tried the math lady's door once again, still locked, and picked up the car and headed for home.

I emailed the lady from the math dept when I got home and asked about the placement test. Yep, I needed to take it, so the next day I was there bright and early and spent an hour and a half finding out exactly what I really don't know about math. It was good enough for the class I wanted to take though.

The next day, yesterday, I was ready to register. I logged onto the site half an hour early just to see, and I was able to get in and start signing up for classes. My wife was right over my shoulder as I learned how to use the system, biting her nails stressing about whether I would get all the classes I need. She has visions of me missing a crucial class during the next 4 years, and having to support my ass an extra semester without receiving benefits. Eventually I got signed up for Biology, Chemistry, Math and Western Civ. I found I needed to take a placement test to get into even the most basic English course. Right now I'm signed up for 14 credits, and it looks like I'll have to decide between Spanish and English this semester. Most of my classes initially were scheduled in the afternoon, but the advisor over at the Med Tech building told me to keep checking if I didn't have exactly what I wanted right away. Today I was able to rearrange everything and put most everything in the mornings. So, every day next semester, if this schedule stays the way it is now, I'll be in classes from 8:00 to 11:00, and T, W and F from 1:00 to 2:00 as well. Thursday I have a Chemistry lecture that lets out at 3:00, and somewhere in there I'm going to have to throw in that English or Spanish class.