Monday, February 11, 2008

Sick cont.

Not much to really say about today - I basically slept a lot and worked on the homework I had due. I skipped everything - church, meals, vespers, Hunter - which I think was probably the best decision. I've gotten through everything I needed to get through for now at least, which is good. And I absolutely will go to classes tomorrow, 'cause I just plain can't afford not to. But yeah. I hope I can fall asleep tonight. >.<

Susannah obsessed @ 01:29 AM

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Boo, sickness

Meh. I is sick. I is pretty bad sick. I managed to get through the (amazingly fun) Sidereals session on a couple of ibuprofen, but this is not a good sign for the next couple days. I slept in quite a bit today and spent the afternoon finishing up my Sidereals character, I attempted to take a nap, and then other than meals and the session that was it. I did not work on homework at all, but mainly because I was just feeling really bad and only willpower got me through the afternoon. Unfortunately, even if my profs would be nice enough to push back assignments for me, I don't think I'd want them to because if I fall behind I will probably never catch up and that would be bad. So. Lots of sleep tomorrow, plus physics and ethics stuffs, and that's probably it. Oh, and the Hunter session. Though I'll have to see if I'm even feeling well enough for that, though I don't like the thought of skipping that, either. Hmm.

Anyway, sleep. Anyone have advice for getting better sooner?

Susannah obsessed @ 11:03 PM

Friday, February 8, 2008

Interesting Day

Today was sort of... interesting. In many ways. I won't recount all of the ways, but needless to say... twas interesting.

The internet, which fizzed, for me at least, some time on Wednesday, took until late in this evening to actually be fixed for the most part... and boy am I glad to have it back. Procrastinating takes 10 times longer when the internet is slow!! XD

In physics lab we got to play around with electrical circuitry and whatnot, with what turned out to be a fairly simple lab packet to fill out along the way.

The OSG meeting went well, as normal... and we even managed to pull off asking a question that took a serious, touchy topic and turned it into something amusing (i.e. what fictional character would YOU make the president of the US if yours was the only vote that counted?).

Lots of homework this evening to do, but at least nearly all of the physics stuff was postponed to MONDAY because of the issues with the network (huge w00t there!!!), so I'll actually be getting some sleep. Foundations homework was pretty fun... I got to draw a whole bunch of machines (basically logical diagrams with arrows and whatnot), which made me happy. The little bit of physics I still had to do wasn't bad. Abstract is still coming along... but I'm going to have to finish that tomorrow. Sleep comes first.

Susannah obsessed @ 03:30 AM

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Mutterings and ponderings, mostly

I'm starting to realize that though Mondays are long, they're worth it more because I can look forward to the sparsity of Tuesdays. Today was of course a long day, and even when I had breaks between classes I found it near impossible to actually get real work done - I was just too tired to do much of anything for a while (as proof, I couldn't get myself to read slashdot, and it even took some interesting circumstances for me to read Keychain of Creation). Meh. But I made it through.

In abstract today we finally defined what a group is!! I really am enjoying this class... Dr. Thompson is pretty much awesome to the point where it's just totally worth it, plus the stuff we're learning is fun too. We actually spent most of class today on one proof, which was sort of funny. Hmm. Another good thing about this class is when I get to write entire lines comprised of quantifiers (backwards E's and upside-down A's), Greek letters, and variable names. I just love how neat it feels to write out entire English sentences using notation. But yeah, tis a fun class...

But as I said at the beginning of the post, I now get to look forward to Tuesday (tomorrow)! I will technically have lots of time to do things tomorrow - though in actuality perhaps not so much as I'd like to think - and though I probably won't be sleeping in since I plan to go to chapel, I at least have the option. The first program for Data Structures is due tomorrow, but it isn't really that bad at all... I'm going to end up using the wonderful built in feature of sets... Not a luxury I'll have forever, but I'll enjoy it for now...

Which reminds me, somehow - I haven't played my snake game in a bit now. Hmm... editing that might be a wonderfully productive way to procrastinate...

Susannah obsessed @ 12:09 AM

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thou shalt not put off homework assigned by Dr. Thompson...

Monday it really turning out to be the long day of the week... and I feel like that will be something I will "discover" to be true nearly every Monday between now and the end of the semester...

Classes went pretty well today. I had Abstract Algebra homework due today that I started later than I should have, and I ended up not getting the final "harder problem" as a result. Hopefully, though, this means that I've learned my lesson and the rest of the semester will be golden... I hope. All my classes have things I'm technically supposed to be keeping up with along the way, and there's only so much I can do to keep up with all of it, but I think my efforts will be well-spent on that class (I think it's fair to say, at this point anyway, that it will be the most challenging class I have this semester).

I went to a talk about REUs today given by a senior who participated in one this past summer. I have taken away the sound advice to apply for as many as possible if I want to actually get in to something, as well as a slightly better impression of what I might be getting myself into if I manage to get in and participate in an REU. But the application process starts now, so I'm going to have to really get on that...

Life is happy in some ways and worrisome in others, but I guess that's sort of its definition, isn't it?

Susannah obsessed @ 12:08 AM

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Haircuts and other adventures

I had work today for a slightly shorter shift than I've been getting. It went pretty well with a couple odd things here and there (including the check machine eating someone's check and the second person to sing "If you knew Suzy" to me since I've begun work there). After work my mother, my brother Dan, and I had adventures: we went to get haircuts (Dan's took about 3 times as long as mine, quite literally), we bought 50 cent books, and we bought 75 cent bags of candy (red, white, and green of course). This took forever all because of Dan's haircut, but I got some reading done in the midst of it.

I've started in on Dante; it looks like it'll take a bit more time than I had originally anticipated, but as long as I keep on it I *should* be fine to get through at least it and hopefully Hamlet as well. *sigh* Here's hoping!!

How's everyone doing in this new year?

Susannah obsessed @ 11:15 PM

Monday, December 31, 2007

Drive back home

Today the family drove back from Cincinnati. That and packing in the morning took up the entire day. I spent most of the drive, except a portion nearer to the end where the family was listening to Les Mis, reading Confessions. I got a huge chunk done of what I had left to read and should be able to round it off tomorrow if I make the effort, but it was quite the mental battle to stay focused on it the whole time, especially with the radio and music and whatnot. It helped that some of it was smoother and more interesting, but the stuff closer to the end of what I read was more difficult and left me with a headache after trying to read it through the soundtrack playing at the time. I'm taking comfort, though, in the fact that this book should be the hardest of all the ones we have to read (at least for me; I guess I can't speak for anyone else).

I have work tomorrow, too. I don't particularly fancy the idea at the moment, but hopefully after a good night's rest I'll be ready to face customers again...

Susannah obsessed @ 12:34 AM

Friday, December 28, 2007

What a short day...

Today was a short, odd day. The family went to the Art Museum, which was sort of interesting. I'm not a huge fan of them, really, which I blame on the number of visits I made to the Philly Art Museum when I was young. (No matter how good the art is, seeing them over and over makes them dull unless you're really fond of art.) The most amusing thing to me was looking at the "abstract" or "modern" art - or, even more so, the titles and blurbs next to them that tried to justify the a piece as an actual work of art. One was literally called "Brown, Orange, Blue on Maroon" and the description talked about the emotions the painter hoped to bring out and such. *shrugs* There might be something to it, but until I see what I figure it's funny enough to laugh about.

That, Hana Kimi, and Confessions have pretty much made up my whole day. Yeah, it still feels like it was way too short...

Susannah obsessed @ 11:07 PM

Monday, December 17, 2007

Weird

Not much to say today, really. I didn't do much - Bible study at brunch, InuYasha movie sometime after that, nap in the middle of the movie, catching up with all my inactive Scrabulous games, checking out the new forum version for the play-by-post, reading some Shojo Beat... I really didn't get much done today! And I'm all weirded out at the moment by the manga I was just reading - it's called Honey and Clover and has a girl in it who's 18 but looks and pretty nearly acts 10 or 11. It's creepy. And the Japanese are weird - just putting that out there for anyone who hadn't noticed already.

Gah, what a weird mood I'm in. ^^;

Susannah obsessed @ 01:02 AM

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Study (or not?) day

Today was study day, a glad that in light of the semester I am and was actually quite thankful for. With all my finals rushing up on me, I'm glad I had a day to slow down, take a breath, and look things over before I take the plunge.

The day mainly consisted of a few things. First, I had to finish that physics homework due at 5, which I did. After that I started officially putting together my study materials for the two finals I'm taking tomorrow. Then it was off to Hunter, which was pushed back to 5:30. It was an awesome session that finished out the chronicle but left us all sitting in shattered glass at midnight and quite ready to start again come the beginning of next semester! Then, regretfully, I had to return to studying for my 9:00 exam. I'm not ready yet, but some more studying now and some in the morning should round me out well enough.

And the countdown can be modified slightly - I realized that technically I've already taken one final because I was taking Putnam problem group for credit, and the final for that was the Putnam (i.e. we had to take it). So the count officially is: 1 down, 5 to go!!

Susannah obsessed @ 10:38 PM

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Sleepy Friday

Yay, Friday. But boo, assignments due on Fridays, no matter how fun they may be. I had my Snake game due at midnight, just barely got to the submission page not on time, and had to e-mail things directly to the prof. He's really gracious about it, though, which is a great blessing. Still, I don't particularly enjoy being required to do homework on Friday evenings.

Anyway. I can't find my glasses - I had them in physics but then not an hour later when I went to Numerical Analysis. I don't know what happened to them, but I guess I'll have to find the lost and found at Rockwell. Dr. Ellison decided not to collect any more homework for NA, and physics homework is pushed back some, making the end of the semester less and less stressful. Lunch was fun; conversation went well and that made me very happy. Dr. Thompson also joined us and gave us some challenges (e.g. think of a word that has all of the first 8 letters of the alphabet in it).

Anime went pretty well. I'd already seen the Read or Die OVAs, but it was nice seeing them again with subtitles. After that, our little subgroup with no name rounded off Last Exile, watching the last 6 episodes in one sitting. It's an amazing series, by the way. Everyone should see it!

Then I came back to the room and entertained Amelia a bit while commenting up my snake program. Valerie came over and talked and that made me happy and helped me feel better about not being completely present the whole time.

And now I must conk... a fact that apparently means that I am (or will be) a conker, and once I conk and become a conker I will be allowed to conquer. (Note: all that was the work of Laura and Amelia, not me...) Yeah. Um. G'night, all.

Susannah obsessed @ 12:58 AM

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Highlights of a rushed day

I had to skip lunch to study for the Discrete Exam, but it paid off! It was a Yeager test, yet I left something like 10 minutes early feeling completely confident, except for being scared that I was missing something big and important being done that early. So that worked out well.

I didn't manage to finish the episodes of Last Exile in time, but the others were gracious and allowed me to watch the last couple I needed before we started out. Ahh, it's such a good series. You should all see it some time.

The Putnam Exam is coming up tomorrow, though I feel like a broken record mentioning it again. Ah, well. The biggest worry there, though, is that I won't be able to finish the stuff I need to finish this weekend because of that. I'll manage somehow, though, I guess. I always do, right? ^^;

I really need to decide what chronicles I might be able to do next semester... there's lot going on, and a lot of ones that sound like fun, but if this semester is any indication, I want to be careful about over-committing. So I'll need to give that some serious thought (sorry, I know I'm not supposed to do that... :P... : ) ).

Susannah obsessed @ 12:38 AM

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Yay for good days : )

Wednesdays are always so much fuller than I remember them to be going in. I mean yes, it's the one day I don't have Discrete, but that makes me feel like I have a big chunk of time in the middle of the day when it's really not nearly that much. And then there's the things unique to Wednesdays that fill up other chunks of time that aren't filled on other days. Hmm...

Anyway, today was actually rather good. I got to eat with my roommates. Mathematica killed my attempts at running an algorithm on it, giving me another couple days to finish the homework I was trying to do. We learned cool new stuff in programming. I got to sing more sixteenth notes. Dinner was amazing in the way that it hasn't been in so long - a full, happy, lively conversation that took way more time than we might have planned being there, something I've certainly missed but hasn't really been as possible with fewer people showing or available to show. I finally got out of my slump, too, I think. While surfing around on the internet feeling the weight and pressure of all the things that need to get done very soon, I managed to realize that getting started on *anything* would help out the load, so I might as well just start. So I did. And I got things done. It was awesome. XD

The pbp continues to be lively as we discuss the fate of our new companion while five of us are actually in the same place at the same time. That's fun. And even more fun was still being able to do my homework while following what was going on. (I got to draw graphs for Discrete - the fun kind!)

So yeah, a good day. Hopefully tomorrow, despite being painfully busy, will be just as good. : )

Susannah obsessed @ 01:20 AM

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Crash and... oh wait, nvm

Classes were hard today, or at least the later ones were. I had a hard time focusing despite the interesting material, and I desperately wanted to go back to my room, curl up, and take a nap. I pushed that off till after choir, but then I wanted to go to dinner with people. GT practice came right after, but that was cut short because everyone's really busy this week. I came back to my room and surfed around and essentially wasted time I didn't have to waste and then battled my program yet again (all I need is a global grid, please...!!!). So instead of going to bed somewhere between 9 and 10:30, I'm going to sleep now. Whoops.

Thank God break is coming up.

It's been a really good semester, though... and way too quickly nearing an end.

Susannah obsessed @ 12:20 AM

Friday, November 9, 2007

Programming Contest, part I (sort of)

Today was Friday, which was good except for the fact that I knew that it wouldn't bring the rest and relaxation Fridays usually bring. Ah, well.

Classes went well. We used a new Greek letter in numerical analysis - eta, which sort of looks like an n and is fun to write. Yay. : )

Didn't get to go to choir today because we left for registration and practice for the programming competition. Tonight went really well; we had some easy problems to do today and our group managed to get all three of them programmed and submitted within about 1 hour, after which there was complementary pizza (which was actually probably part of the entry fee or something). The real thing is tomorrow, and our hopes are high... but we are also leaving at 7:00 in the morning which means...

...time to go to sleep NOW!

Oh, and if there would be a way for me to get the Samurai Champloo episodes I missed... as in, they actually get to me, I would greatly appreciate it! : )

Susannah obsessed @ 10:59 PM

Good morning, Vietnam!

There's no particularly good reason for the title except that it's a movie quote my Junior High leader used to always say and it's really early in the morning and I happened to think of it. So there ya go.

I managed to pay attention through my classes today, amazingly. I really like the way Dr. Anderson gives lectures, which made SSFT easier, but I still am too ADD to just sit and listen for 75 minutes... though I suppose I'll need to do more than that to get through intersessions.

Discrete homework got pushed back to Monday at the last minute, another stress-reliever that came as quite the shock.

Class registration opened up again today! I only just barely managed to get into the intersession course I wanted - by the time I got on a few minutes in, there was only one seat left in the last open Civ Lit intersession, and I got into it. *phew* It's too bad Allison and I won't be in the same section of it, but at least we both got in successfully!! I also got into the couple other classes I was adding (and of course dropped the classes I was planning to drop). It was the least stressful course registration ever given that we all registered for this last year, with only the first 5 to 7 minutes running slowly and then the speed chugging right back up again. So yay for getting into the classes I wanted. : )

I had another tutoring session today. I should've known that even after all these years not ever fully remembering slant asymptotes would come back to bite me, but unfortunately I did not think of it and so was forced to re-figure them on the spot. Whoops. But apparently I still managed to clarify some things, and I really hope he'll do well on the test tomorrow/today! : )

OSG meeting was awesome, as usual, with lots of laughs along the way. I look forward to the new t-shirt, as I've really been wishing I had bought one last year...

Ah, physics. Amelia and I struggled along with it for the last two or three hours, managing to get all but the last problem, I think. But now our brains will do no more and it's not worth the extra couple points that it might possibly be worth... Actually, though, the problems weren't terribly difficult once we figured out the concepts behind them. It was just the fact that the book did a bad job explaining them (I think) and we never went over some of this stuff in lecture...

Time to go to sleep... tomorrow is a big day!! >.<

Susannah obsessed @ 01:52 AM