Blood Pressure Day/Clean Up Your Room Day/Golden Spike Day
2007-05-10 @ 11:42 p.m.

Second night of classes also went fine. Today's lesson covered a lot of physiological stuff, including this whole part on neurons that I remember from Mrs Low's Biology lessons back in RI. It's been two years since I've seen the phrase "nodes of Ranvier"! (It's really just a fancy name for the unmyelinated sections of axons.) I kind of feel like I missed out on something by not doing any Science subjects in JC. Psychology appeals to the logical part of me. Not that literature's very irrational per se, but the element of subjectivity there is much more evident. So yeah, I think my decision to do this part-time diploma has been the right one. My CSM actually said that if I need to leave early for lessons, I just need to get him to sign an off pass. Might take him up on that offer, although currently time isn't an issue as long as I leave camp by 5.30 pm. Leaving early's always a good thing though, so maybe I'll take up the offer after all. My team IC's mood today was abnormally cheerful, which has left us all rather puzzled. I suppose deep down, at some fundamental level that we can't usually perceive, he's a decent person. You never thought I'd say that about him, but I think it's true. He just has certain expectations of how the world should be and gets mad when they're not met. Yet aren't we all like that to varying degrees anyway?