Weekend update!

 Hello friends and happy sunday!  

I just finished writing the first draft of our final formal writing assignment for class and submitted it so I'm feeling pretty good about that and while I still have some writing motivation left, thought I'd funnel it into another blog post. It's been an interesting and very hot week that I wanted to share or record for my own memory. 

 I'm working on revamping my lunches and eating habits in preparation for the fall semester because I know I'm going to be super busy and making sure I get enough food to fuel my brain and body is important. I have a difficult time eating when it's hot because I don't want to cook so we've been doing prep and finding easier options. I started making smoothies again and even got some collagen power to add protein. I want to try to find whey powder because apparently, that's pretty helpful when you want to up your protein intake. My partner baked me loaves of rosemary bread so I can make sandwiches to bring to campus and I'm figuring out ways to get more vegetables into my diet, mostly in the form of stir fry with rice or soba noodles. 

Alongside finishing up the first draft for English 101, I've been trying to finish up the first draft of my final project for the environmental geology class I'm taking. We needed to pick a county with lots of geologic activity so I picked Chile and it's been so interesting to read about the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that have happened. The biggest earthquake ever recorded happened in Chile in 1960, reaching a whopping 9.6 on the moment magnitude scale. It shook for 10 minutes straight and moved some areas up to 30 feet laterally in minutes and the entire south american continent got moved.  Whole towns were relocated and it shifted the earth's axis so much that it shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds which isn't enough for us to notice but is crazy to think about. It was so powerful that a volcano nearly 100 miles away erupted and shot out lava and tephra (ash and gas and rocks) into the sky and erupted for nearly 60 days afterward. Chile has since implemented a lot of precautions and measures to mitigate the damage which came in handy when they had an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in 2010. They just had a 6.6 magnitude earthquake just last week! So that's been really interesting to learn about. 

Between studying nuclear energy for this class and Chile for the other class it's been a week of learning super cool facts. And also funny because those topics don't sound like what you'd learn in the classes they're actually for. 

I've also made a lot of progress in the geology lab! I got all the fossils organized and put away, which felt like a massive job. There ended up being 11 whole drawers of fossils that I cleaned out, inventoried, plugged into an excel sheet by hand and then relabeled and put back. I have no idea what a lot of the fossils are but they sure were cool to look at and I hope now that they're more organized they can get used in classes or displayed so everyone else can see them! Here are a few of my favorites that I found. 





So that's been most of my week. I'm getting super hyped for my fall classes. I'm taking Calculus, Intro to Chemistry, Intro to HTML and Cardio kickboxing as well as working at the campus library and more work at the geology lab when I can fit it it. What fall classes will you be taking? 

 
 


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