Finals and Food Festivities...

Well I've come across quite a rare thing. Yesterday was our first round of final exams for the course, a wrap up of our two week marine invertebrate adventure. It was an intense four hour block of scheduled tests, lecture and then lab practical, but we all came out the other side relatively intact. Except now that we've all realized that we have a genuine two day weekend because we have no homework. We'll begin our phycology (algae) section on Monday which wraps with an exam in a week. Intense, but great. So here I am faced with a real weekend. I plan on doing some sleeping, knitting, reading, and then probably some more sleeping. As my mom said, this is the perfect way to end my time at OSU.

Last night after our finals were over Sally treated us to a crab/chili feed in the dining hall. There's no pictures on my end of the event, and I could give you an elaborate story as to why that is, but the truth is that I just forgot to take my camera with me. I'm sure some photos will be put up soon and I'll post those (with due credit) when I can. It was a good night though. We started at 6 and had tons of crab, chili, salad, garlic bread, chips and dip, and other great foodies. A high point was a fellow classmates 5 gallon drum of homebrew which he brought out to make the occasion. It was an interesting beer, including the touch of chili flakes that left you with a bit of a tingle in your mouth. Good stuff though.

The night was filled with lots of drinking, laughter, playing various games around the ping pong table, and finally concluding with a viewing of Happy Feet. Through the movie I was sitting between Sally and a guy named John Schaefers (who I had aquatic entomology with last term), which was an interesting experience. Witty remarks were rampant though and it was a genuine good time.

Since I was so lax about taking my camera last night, here's a video that I made for a guy in my class. It's from our field trip to the mudflats when we were all cleaning off.