Doctor Who?

Well, in the last two days, Teresa and I have gotten through twenty episodes of DW. Granted, they're only half hour eps, but that's still ten hours of lateseventies/earlyeighties British sci-fi. And goodness, but Tegan's annoying.

And yes, Mom, we've had yogurt. It was tres nice :)

Downloaded the new firefox version yesterday; it's quite nice, I think. Everything looks... cleaner, I think. Quite good. Plus, the download window now hsow more information, which I appreciate.

I have some proofs homework to do this weekend, though it's not due until Wednesday, and it looks much easier than the logic puzzles we've been doing, So that's good. And my physics prof, looking over my first lab reports, said that the formatting looked good, so that was a relief. Whether he likes my analysis is another question, but at least the presentation was all right...

And now, for you pretty TG macro of the day:

Physics is really, really hard. We're on a lab break right now. Really hard. That is all.

...or maybe I'll try sending from my phone first!

I have the power!

Finally. We had an outage that was about a minute long around 9pm, then power went out all down the street (and it's a long street!) for about 10-15 minutes around 10pm. Annoying, because it was making my computer cranky and I was trying to study, but kinda neat, because it got everyone out of their apartments and out onto the sidewalk, pointing flashlights and candles, and talking. (Well, okay, no one was really pointing candles.)

But now it's back, and I'm glad. Plus! I've figured out how to post messages to blogger from my cell phone. So I'll always be able to get messages out to the blogosphere, if nothing else :)

Hmm. Now that the excitement's over, I should probably get back to my physics textbook. Sigh.

Hot (blank) in the summertime...

It's a little warm here. 95 is not happy bicycling weather. Particularly not with 25 pounds on one's back. Gah.

Am now indulging in my favorite high-protein meal: scrambled eggs with taco meat. Wish I had some flour shells to wrap it in, but straight works too.

I got to present one of my homework proofs in class today; that was neat, particularly since it was quite well-put together, and so it went down pretty well with the class. Also, a good friend of mine was assigned as my partner for the rest of the semester, so it was a good period. Except that she volunteered to present the first proof, and it got pretty ripped to shreds by the rest of the class. That was a bit painful to watch.

Ended up having to buy the $100 bible for RELS, so I picked up that and a quadrille lined notebook for my physics lab. I was also going to get the yoga mat while I was there, but the student bookstore wanted $30 for them; as such, I'm headed out to Target and/or WalMart this afternoon.

And now, for something completely different:

Hello, Goodbye

Yeah, so I'm getting the feeling this semester is going to be kind of insane. And when I say insane, I mean totally nuts.

But I have to leave for calc in a few minutes, so, since it would take too long to explain, I will sum up:

Calc is fun. I love that class. Could do it all day.

Proofs, so far, is... different. We're not really into the actual work part of it yet, though, so maybe it'll be even more different sometime soon. Also, it demands a lot of homework.

Physics is hard and intense, though has no homework to turn in (too poor of a department to be able to hire graders). Suspect tests will be ugly. Also, there is a 7/1 male/female ratio. Which is...interesting.

Logic is an easy A. Does not even require a term paper. Heh.

Biblical Controversies... is taught by a very intense, shouting, old, black man who (from his accent and slang) is clearly from Spain/South America. Somewhere where they speak Spanish. And he used to teach at Rutgers. And he's requiring that we all buy a new, $100 bible for the class. And there's a ton of reading from biblically contemporaneous. So that's a little different too.

And, as a final note, I learned yesterday that my step aerobics class will be highly choreographed. Which is absolutely okay; I'm actually kinda idsappointed we didn't gt to start anything interesting yesterday. But I need to buy a body/yoga mat for it anyway.

And that's all for now. Hope you're all having a nice Wednesday!

Love, Teddy

Physics and Logic and Maths, oh my!

Well, first day of the semester down. Calculus was fun; I knew several people, and it was the professor I had for calc 2. He's a funny guy; just 30, and only been teaching a couple of years. Here are some of his better quotes from calc last year:

"What the... is this some kind of sick joke?" On only having small pieces of chalk

"Does anyone think that's cool other than me, or am I just flying solo in Darksville?" On deriving the formula for the circumference of an ellipse.

"I didn't know I was going to become a politician when I became a professor. I just wanted to do math."

"It's like picking out a brand of cereal. Man, I'm bad at stuff like that." On picking test problems

"Hiding away from real work all day. That's what academics do." On summer plans

And then, from just this morning:

"Have you seen the [campus] maps? My God, I don't think even Smurfs could read those maps."

So yeah. Calc was fun. Except that we're shoved into a tiny classroom in the gym building. Which is... kinda weird, but whatever.

A bunch of us math folk then trooped over to proofs, where we did some sample problems out of the book. They were pretty much logic puzzles, but I completely understood them, when it seemed like a lot of people just flat out didn't. So that made me feel better, though this probably isn't what we'll be doing for the rest of the semester. Ah well. I've had this prof before, for calc 1, so that was nice too. He's good guy.

Logic was awful. I mean, it'll be an easy A, but the teacher is unbelievably condescending and repetitive. Sigh. well, I'll just read the required chapters beforehand, and then I won't have to be listening to him for lecture. Oi.

Physics... well, for one, has some pretty significant gender disparities. The M/F ratio is about 6.5/1, so that's different. Otherwise though, it seems like it'll be... hard, but probably worth it. Requiring of a lot of reading, certainly. And I have to figure out how to wirte a good lab report. A perk is that the Physics department doesn't have the money to hire graders, so we don't have to turn in any homework. Which is nice for us, but bad, on the overall scale of things. Poor physicists.

But, enough about school (and biking around in 90 degree weather!). Here's a nice, pretty TG macro for you all:

She's a maniac, maniac... (about school)

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Right. Okay. I leave in half an hour. *Will not be ill in the meantime*

Heard Spencer clomping around at 6:30, and there was a note for me on the white board when I went downstairs for brekkie, informing me what time he'd left. Bless.

Right. Calculus first, followed by Proofs, then Logic, then finishing up with Physics. Okay. Right.

But now, for something completely different:



and,



Because every day should begin with a little bit of the BBC. Macroed, when possible.

I don't have a water bottle at the moment, but fortunately I found alid for one of the fairly large tupperware-brand cups. That should see me through the day.

Gaaaaaah, okay. *Runs away to compulsively brush her hair and repack her backpack*

Tacos pt. 2

Tacos turned out well. Spence has taken to not using prepackaged seasoning mix; instead he spices it himself with powders of cumin, garlic, chili, and probably other stuff too. I wasn't getting close enough to the oven to take a look.

Plus, there were Kettle Chips! This whole roommate thing isn't such a bad deal, turns out.

Going to start a load of laundry now; clean clothes for school ftw!

And for Mom, who wanted to know where all the Daleks had gone:

Tacos!

Spencer's walking down to Safeway at the moment (wearing a vest over his t-shirt, and long jeans, in 95 degree weather) to ...

Hang on. Sorry, was distracted for a moment by the two cars driving backwards down West Sac. Yeah, gotta love Chico when the students are in town.

But anyway. Spencer's on his way to Safeway to get some mince, and possibly lettuce for tacos tonight. I don't relish the idea of cooking over a hot oven this afternoon, but he's (oddly) determined to have something celebratory for our last day before college. So, whatever. He can be the one to cook with the hot oil. I'll grate cheese and shred lettuce.

In other news, it's kinda hot here. Just a bit. Sort of. Maybe a little.

Yawn

Neighbors are throwing a it's-the-last-Saturday-night-of-the-summer-before-school-starts-let-all-get-drunk type party next door. Glad my bedroom's on the other side of the apartment.

Just finished watching Return of the King. Spence and I watched The Two Towers this afternoon, then settled in for the extended version of ROTK this evening. We watched that, and drank a lot of ice water. I suppose that can be considered our own version of an end-of-summer party...

Hello!

New blog. Haven't kept one in a while; maybe this one will stick.

Ran errands today. I'd forgotten that the farmer's market is on Saturday mornings, so traffic in town was busy. But, got the banking done, then ran over to campus and picked up the last of my textbooks for this semester. It's for my Biblical Controversies class, which looks like it's going to have a lot of reading overall. Ah well; the other books look fairly interesting.

Made peanut butter-veggie soup last night. It turned out well, and made plenty, to keep me fed for a fair bit of this week. I'd freeze it, but I suspect that would make the potatoes in it rather unhappy.

Right, then. Off to format my pretty new blog.