Father's Day, 09

Here's my slideshow from Sunday - both the arty and the common, though I try to make everything arty ;)

I feel triumphant - we had individual meetings with a history prof today, and my last test was a 35-plus out of 30, the best in the class, he said. (Of course it helps that I'm an English major, and have to write analytical essays fairly regularly.) It's only a 3-week class, so it's much more fast-paced than normal.

He encourages me to consider grad school. That's the second professor of mine doing that. I had never really thought about it before, as it seems just to incur more debt and keep me away from being 'useful' to the greater society, or something ;) However, he may well be right that it's a good place to "hide" during this recession... but doesn't grad school merely lead to an eventual professorship? *shiver* I don't know... My dad's boasting that I'll go on and get a PhD now... hee hee. I never really considered that, either... If I do that, imagine how much more trouble you'll have with big words in my posts, Uncle Steve!! ;) Life is interesting, I'll say that.

The zinnias and nasturtium I planted a couple weeks ago are turning up nicely, big opening green leaves. I hope they bloom.

The nasturtium, the seed packet says, are a climbing plant. We don't have a trellis; I guess we're hoping the plants will wrap around the posts of our deck. We'll see, I guess.