In the Biology building there is a perpetual "free stuff" table. Today there was a box of clothes and I found a few neat things. It was like going to the bins, but without paying bus fare and sorting through a bunch of stupid crap.
I don't know why for my open-ended physics lab I picked the one that is just like what we wrote our anchor paper on in high school. Friggin' springs.
Chromated copper arsenate came up in E-chem today, which I wrote my portfolio piece on for intro to chemistry freshman year of high school.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Smarts
I have to revise my third paper, which sucks, but at least I have until the end of the term. I think the fourth paper, on the other hand, is going to go well. I already have some rough ideas down and it's due in 2 weeks plus a day - and I'm only halfway through one of the texts I'll be discussing. This is much better start than the last two papers.
Yesterday and today, Roomie dazzled me with how smart she is. Last night I think she was talking about the importance of multiple sources in history and critiquing our Hum class as far as how they deal with the fact that we have very few sources about some things. Just now, we went in five minutes from her liking my pi shirt to the rise of the album along with rock music and associated factors in the mid-20th century, and its current decline with the internet.
Yesterday and today, Roomie dazzled me with how smart she is. Last night I think she was talking about the importance of multiple sources in history and critiquing our Hum class as far as how they deal with the fact that we have very few sources about some things. Just now, we went in five minutes from her liking my pi shirt to the rise of the album along with rock music and associated factors in the mid-20th century, and its current decline with the internet.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Mrrr cold
Apparently I am becoming a wuss. I say "becoming" because I started running in January, and I didn't even have sweatpants at the time. Yet now I find myself reluctant to go out when it's so cold and sometimes windy and dark. I think I'm going to go check out the sports center and see if they have an inside track or something. Might give me a new community to break into, too.
wow... pun intended
So I was in conference this morning and we were discussing Plato's Republic. In book 2 they are talking about guardian soldiers and "Socrates" (aka Plato's mouthpiece) says:
"Well, then, don't you think warfare is a craft?"
The girl who lives just above me in Mac informs the class that next to that line, in her book, some previous reader wrote "warcraft."
Cue discussion of faculty members who play World of Warcraft. But getting back on topic...
"So what is the problem presented by... [I don't actually remember the subject here]?"
"Level 20 orcs."
"Well, then, don't you think warfare is a craft?"
The girl who lives just above me in Mac informs the class that next to that line, in her book, some previous reader wrote "warcraft."
Cue discussion of faculty members who play World of Warcraft. But getting back on topic...
"So what is the problem presented by... [I don't actually remember the subject here]?"
"Level 20 orcs."
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Assorted happenings
Alright, it's time for an update, no matter how disorganized my thoughts are.
Most of my major projects for the term are over. Last week I had a presentation for chem that I was pretty stressed about, but it turned out alright. I had a crazy day where I simply powered myself up on caffeine and went to the library to work on it for 4 hours straight, which I then followed with a run and more homework at about midnight. I'm glad it's past though. I've got a physics midterm on Friday, and the fourth paper is still to come. We got the topics this Monday, and one looks pretty good. Unfortunately, my conference leader said last week that they're going to have us revise the third paper, which is lame. I don't want to work on two papers at once again. I'll need to start the fourth paper early so I have something to continue on once my attention is split with the revision.
Next year I won't have to write papers at all. I'll have to write a lot of lab reports, but those are different and much easier. I'm looking forward to it.
Philosophy class has been canceled twice now, both on Tuesdays. Each time, I've found out by coming into class, observing zero people at the start time, and going downstairs to check my email and see what's up. Each time, my teacher had emailed us around 11. Class starts at 2:40. I don't blame him for emailing us on short notice; you can't do much about illness in that regard. What amazes me is that apparently everyone else in the class (which is about 20 people), both times, had the opportunity to AND actually did check their email within that little 4-hour window.
This weekend GP invited me and Philosopher-Linguist over for dinner and we had a nice time. I hadn't seen GP in a quite a while so it was nice to see her again. They seemed to get along pretty well, and we went out to Pix afterward.
Roomie decided not to go away next semester, which makes me happy.
That's about all I can think of for now. I'm making up my wish- and shopping-lists for Christmas but neither is well-populated yet.
Most of my major projects for the term are over. Last week I had a presentation for chem that I was pretty stressed about, but it turned out alright. I had a crazy day where I simply powered myself up on caffeine and went to the library to work on it for 4 hours straight, which I then followed with a run and more homework at about midnight. I'm glad it's past though. I've got a physics midterm on Friday, and the fourth paper is still to come. We got the topics this Monday, and one looks pretty good. Unfortunately, my conference leader said last week that they're going to have us revise the third paper, which is lame. I don't want to work on two papers at once again. I'll need to start the fourth paper early so I have something to continue on once my attention is split with the revision.
Next year I won't have to write papers at all. I'll have to write a lot of lab reports, but those are different and much easier. I'm looking forward to it.
Philosophy class has been canceled twice now, both on Tuesdays. Each time, I've found out by coming into class, observing zero people at the start time, and going downstairs to check my email and see what's up. Each time, my teacher had emailed us around 11. Class starts at 2:40. I don't blame him for emailing us on short notice; you can't do much about illness in that regard. What amazes me is that apparently everyone else in the class (which is about 20 people), both times, had the opportunity to AND actually did check their email within that little 4-hour window.
This weekend GP invited me and Philosopher-Linguist over for dinner and we had a nice time. I hadn't seen GP in a quite a while so it was nice to see her again. They seemed to get along pretty well, and we went out to Pix afterward.
Roomie decided not to go away next semester, which makes me happy.
That's about all I can think of for now. I'm making up my wish- and shopping-lists for Christmas but neither is well-populated yet.
Friday, November 6, 2009
My hair is annoying me again
It's too short and too thick to manage by putting it behind my ears. It's also too short and too thick to manage with barrettes and ponytails, which isn't the greatest strategy in the winter anyway. Two particular hunks - they are in front and slightly shorter than the rest, so they seem like they were bangs at one point although I've just been growing out from an all-over short cut - are being a constant tactile annoyance. I don't want to cut the main body of my hair any shorter, so I thought of turning them into real bangs.
Pros:
1) I could then wear my hair down without constantly trying to get it out of the way.
2) I would be using my hair most efficiently for insulation in the winter
3) By the time warmer weather arrives, the rest of my hair would be long enough to put back in ponytails, and I could use barrettes on the growing bangs.
Cons:
1) I might not like the style.
2) I would still have to grow them out at some point and encounter the same tactile problem.
3) I would be exacerbating the problem of different lengths in my hair, which makes braids difficult.
Con #1 is just a gamble. I think I can do it so I like it, but nothing I can find out before doing it will settle the issue for sure. Con #2 is somewhat mitigated by pro #3; if the rest of my hair has gotten long, then it won't be so difficult to get my bangs out of the way with barrettes. Con #3 is really the troubling one. I know from past experience that it's frustrating to have bits of shorter hair that aren't really bangs anymore but can't go into long hairstyles properly. What I could do is, once my hair is a manageable length, keep the length constant until the bangs catch up. I think this is a reasonable solution, but it will mean an even longer delay until I can really play with long hairstyles.
I think I will do the bangs. I gotta say though, it is really frustrating because I like my hair short and I like it long, but there is about 6 months of medium length in between that is practically a no-win situation, so it's always a heavier decision than I think it should be to switch from one to the other.
Pros:
1) I could then wear my hair down without constantly trying to get it out of the way.
2) I would be using my hair most efficiently for insulation in the winter
3) By the time warmer weather arrives, the rest of my hair would be long enough to put back in ponytails, and I could use barrettes on the growing bangs.
Cons:
1) I might not like the style.
2) I would still have to grow them out at some point and encounter the same tactile problem.
3) I would be exacerbating the problem of different lengths in my hair, which makes braids difficult.
Con #1 is just a gamble. I think I can do it so I like it, but nothing I can find out before doing it will settle the issue for sure. Con #2 is somewhat mitigated by pro #3; if the rest of my hair has gotten long, then it won't be so difficult to get my bangs out of the way with barrettes. Con #3 is really the troubling one. I know from past experience that it's frustrating to have bits of shorter hair that aren't really bangs anymore but can't go into long hairstyles properly. What I could do is, once my hair is a manageable length, keep the length constant until the bangs catch up. I think this is a reasonable solution, but it will mean an even longer delay until I can really play with long hairstyles.
I think I will do the bangs. I gotta say though, it is really frustrating because I like my hair short and I like it long, but there is about 6 months of medium length in between that is practically a no-win situation, so it's always a heavier decision than I think it should be to switch from one to the other.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
What ABOUT Freud?
Today we were discussing Oedipus Rex/Tyrannos/the-King and it went very nicely for an hour and 17 minutes. Then with three minutes left, conversation petered out a bit and the guy who obviously loves humanities more than anyone else and knows lots of extra shit says "so, what about Freud?"
Conference leader says he'd like to avoid Freud, but the damage is done - nobody can resist telling tales of Freud's ridiculous phallocentric theories. A couple minutes of Freud-riffing ensue. Then another dude, the one with good comedic phrasing (there's a girl who's good at that too), says "Fifty seconds, Carl Jung, go."
I jump on that one. "Led to MBTI, not entirely useless," I claim. "What type are you?" asks the guy across the room whom I'd talked to some after he left a comment on Philosopher-Linguist's blog. The three of us offer up our MBTI types - two INTJs and one INTP, it turns out. The discussion ends in laughter and on the way out I chat for a few minutes with the blog commenter about Freud and Lacan. I love my humanities conference.
Conference leader says he'd like to avoid Freud, but the damage is done - nobody can resist telling tales of Freud's ridiculous phallocentric theories. A couple minutes of Freud-riffing ensue. Then another dude, the one with good comedic phrasing (there's a girl who's good at that too), says "Fifty seconds, Carl Jung, go."
I jump on that one. "Led to MBTI, not entirely useless," I claim. "What type are you?" asks the guy across the room whom I'd talked to some after he left a comment on Philosopher-Linguist's blog. The three of us offer up our MBTI types - two INTJs and one INTP, it turns out. The discussion ends in laughter and on the way out I chat for a few minutes with the blog commenter about Freud and Lacan. I love my humanities conference.
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