Year 2 at Yale

So--I'm ba-ack! I'm all moved into my new digs in Morse College (mascot: Walrus) thanks to the help of my good and gracious mother. My room, unlike last year, is not located directly above the noisiest street in New Haven, and is about twice as big. Which means that I can actually have three chairs in the room. I am on the first floor this year, and my East-facing window gets sunshine in the morning and looks out on a perfect circle of trees.

The latest big news is that I have decided to change my major (I'm fairly certain) to Environmental Studies instead of English. I'm already pretty excited about it. This means that I'm taking Chemistry, Cell Biology, and a class called Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Change. Cool. I'll also have one English class still, and two labs. Oh boy--this is different for me, but I think it will be fine. My thought is that this major is the best way to incorporate my interest in food and agriculture into my studies.

Speaking of food: Since last I wrote, I: Made cookies, drank Thai Iced coffee with my mother, and made a chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, which was an unreal color, for Graham's birthday (26 on the 26th! Happy birthday, darling.) There were plenty of things in between all that, like a drive up to Taos, a walk through Indian Market, and an encounter with a VERY LARGE tomato worm.






A thunder storm just passed through, a few rumbles and perhaps 20 minutes of rain. The weather has been very pleasant. My mother and I ate at the Cuban restaurant tonight, which is SO GOOD. Walking back, I heard a rythmic tapping coming from somewhere, and then the sounds of a chime. As we rounded the corner by Atticus bookstore, we came across a young man playing the digeridoo, to which he had affixed a chime and a wooden frog sound maker. The ringing of the chime followed us all the way down the street.