Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Yeah, I’m watching my lecture as I write this, but this is definitely a low-mental-stress class. Midterm’s in less than a week, and I haven’t even started studying yet. Partially cause I’m lazy, but partially cause I’m not really worried. I’ve seen a lot of this stuff before. I take that back, in some form or another, I’ve seen all of this stuff before. This is good by me, makes it much easier.
Advice. Lets talk about it. For some reason these past few weeks, people have been asking about my advice a LOT. My sister has been crunching through a particularly tricky class, and for some reason, all the things that she’s not good at in this class are all the things I am good at. Imaginary numbers? I don’t even think about them anymore because we use them all the time. Of course they don’t really exist, but who cares? I see them so often it’s just like another variable in an equation. Wave equation? I remember that. Complex sinusoidal equivalents? Yep. Done that a few thousand times in my life. It works out really well, and I seem to be good enough at explaining things to be of help. Booyaka!
Advice number two, one of my cousins called me up and asked if I could help him find some CAD software for something he was trying to do at work. Advice number three, one of my workmates called up to ask advice about her upcoming midterm in Estimation Theory, which I have taken before. I’m just a bucket of useful information. Yay me!
J(5) and myself continue to spend a lot of time enjoying each others presence, which is just a great way to spend time. We went out shopping for some stuff like towels and bed-stuff, hit up Ikea to buy myself a *suede chair pad* for my Poang chair (oh yeah, sweet), and on Friday I watched her play Hockey. It was pretty cool (get it? Hah!). J(5) is the ‘enforcer’, and was on defense most of the game. She’s not the quickest girl on the team, that distinction belongs to their center. She’s bloody fast! But J(5) on defense is aggressive (B-E, Aggressive!), but evidently not quite enough to ever get called for penalties, which, I am told, is a relatively common event most other days. They didn’t quite win the game, but it was definitely exciting to watch. Go team!
Afterwards, much of the team went out to Stick and Stein, which is the traditional after-game bar. I had a great time, got to meet a bunch of people, got along great with everyone. We had alcohol (and a delicious Salad for me!) and toasted victory and loss and hockey and friendship and made crude jokes and laughed uproariously. I like those people. Crazy like both J(5) and like me.
The avalanche of holiday video games has started. I’m excited about a lot of them, though it’ll probably be a while before I get to most of them. Just too many games! What a wonderful problem!
Weird thing of the week: When I got into work on Thursday, there was an acoustic tile sitting in my chair. It had broken off and fallen from the ceiling sometime during the night. Good thing I don’t work the night shift. Close call. I even had someone come over to witness the strangeness, cause I didn’t think anyone would believe me otherwise. He he.
Yeah, I’m still writing, but class is still going, too. 8 minutes left!
J(5) has started reading both THIS VERY BLOG ITSELF and my newest story. Which is good news for mom, because J(5) can more actively bug me to finish writing it, so that’s more literature production for everyone. Hoorah!
Hang on, we’re proving something…okay, class done!
-N
Advice. Lets talk about it. For some reason these past few weeks, people have been asking about my advice a LOT. My sister has been crunching through a particularly tricky class, and for some reason, all the things that she’s not good at in this class are all the things I am good at. Imaginary numbers? I don’t even think about them anymore because we use them all the time. Of course they don’t really exist, but who cares? I see them so often it’s just like another variable in an equation. Wave equation? I remember that. Complex sinusoidal equivalents? Yep. Done that a few thousand times in my life. It works out really well, and I seem to be good enough at explaining things to be of help. Booyaka!
Advice number two, one of my cousins called me up and asked if I could help him find some CAD software for something he was trying to do at work. Advice number three, one of my workmates called up to ask advice about her upcoming midterm in Estimation Theory, which I have taken before. I’m just a bucket of useful information. Yay me!
J(5) and myself continue to spend a lot of time enjoying each others presence, which is just a great way to spend time. We went out shopping for some stuff like towels and bed-stuff, hit up Ikea to buy myself a *suede chair pad* for my Poang chair (oh yeah, sweet), and on Friday I watched her play Hockey. It was pretty cool (get it? Hah!). J(5) is the ‘enforcer’, and was on defense most of the game. She’s not the quickest girl on the team, that distinction belongs to their center. She’s bloody fast! But J(5) on defense is aggressive (B-E, Aggressive!), but evidently not quite enough to ever get called for penalties, which, I am told, is a relatively common event most other days. They didn’t quite win the game, but it was definitely exciting to watch. Go team!
Afterwards, much of the team went out to Stick and Stein, which is the traditional after-game bar. I had a great time, got to meet a bunch of people, got along great with everyone. We had alcohol (and a delicious Salad for me!) and toasted victory and loss and hockey and friendship and made crude jokes and laughed uproariously. I like those people. Crazy like both J(5) and like me.
The avalanche of holiday video games has started. I’m excited about a lot of them, though it’ll probably be a while before I get to most of them. Just too many games! What a wonderful problem!
Weird thing of the week: When I got into work on Thursday, there was an acoustic tile sitting in my chair. It had broken off and fallen from the ceiling sometime during the night. Good thing I don’t work the night shift. Close call. I even had someone come over to witness the strangeness, cause I didn’t think anyone would believe me otherwise. He he.
Yeah, I’m still writing, but class is still going, too. 8 minutes left!
J(5) has started reading both THIS VERY BLOG ITSELF and my newest story. Which is good news for mom, because J(5) can more actively bug me to finish writing it, so that’s more literature production for everyone. Hoorah!
Hang on, we’re proving something…okay, class done!
-N
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Thought you might appreciate this tangent. The other night Matt's roommates were making grilled cheese, one mentioned he used to think that they were "girl cheese" and the other admitted he thought they were "gorilla cheese." Laughs all around about how you milk a gorilla etc.
Today the radio was playing Dire Straits, and I was thinking about that album we used to listen to, and that I always thought it was Dye-R Strait. Which is weird, because at anytime in my life we may have listened to this, I could have read what they were really called. I assume you must have said it funny and I took your word for it. Dire Straits.
That was a good album.
Love,
S
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Today the radio was playing Dire Straits, and I was thinking about that album we used to listen to, and that I always thought it was Dye-R Strait. Which is weird, because at anytime in my life we may have listened to this, I could have read what they were really called. I assume you must have said it funny and I took your word for it. Dire Straits.
That was a good album.
Love,
S
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