[ listening to -> Joss Stone ]
another day without earning another dollar
spending another late evening in front of my computer trying to settle my mind.
a quick bit of background, i volunteer work in a lab run by my electricity and magnetism professor...
had a very long day. made it to campus around 8, which i've been pretty good about this semester. spent an hour reworking homework problems that were due for class at 930. rocked a quiz in "electricity and magnetism II" this morning but forgot to bring the daily crossword to class so the 75 minutes of lecturing seemed to drag on forever.
oh and while i was taking the quiz, the professor walked up and told me that i need to quit smoking and that he has a plan to make that happen. i was flabbergasted. i don't smoke in class and i'm never late due to smoking so what the hell does he care if i smoke. he told me we would talk about it later in the lab. so i let it go until later.
booked a hotel room for grant and i for this weekend's trip.
grant decided that we needed to eat lunch off campus today. so instead finding my favorite bench and doing the reading i needed to do, i went to lunch with grant.
lab time. i actually got to see some of the process for making "skutterudites" today. it was intense. the grad student i was watching, who will most likely end up mentoring me, broke a $600 piece of equipment today. we all make mistakes but i'm glad it wasn't me and he should have thought through what he was doing first. hindsight is always 20-20. back to the smoking comment, so the professor came in after we had been in the lab for a few hours and told me that this summer, when i've graduated and don't have any course/exam stress to worry about, i'll have a relaxing summer working in his lab, so i won't have any problem quitting smoking. because it would be a terrible thing if i was a smoker and "needed" to leave a sample in one of the furnaces, presses, or vacuum systems while i ran to smoke, only to have some catastrophe happen in the lab while i was gone and i end up blowing up the building. he wasn't joking. guess i have to quit smoking.
i've decided grant and i spend entirely too much time together. he annoyed the piss out of me today. i don't think he can stand 30 seconds of silence let alone the good hour i need to get through some reading. he talked incessantly for the six hours we were in the lab today. i was ready to duct tape him to a chair and gag him by the end of the day just so i could have a little peace. i even brought my discman into the lab today because i knew i had to get through some background reading. nothing would shut him up.
so directly after lab, i had to follow grant home. his parents wanted to meet me. he never goes on trips and never brings anyone home. so they wanted to see what is so special about me that i can convince grant to go on a trip with me. so i put a smile on and played the role they wanted me to play. mom served dinner, dad planned our travel route. got to love the good old fashioned southern family dynamics. dad really doesn't like the fact that i'm driving and grant isn't but whatever. i've seen far more of the interstates around the state than grant has and i would prefer not being stranded without a car when we get there because he's off with his "lady friend". oh well, i was polite. that is all that can really be expected of me after a long day.
i really do love grant. we behave like siblings. some days we fight but most we don't.
talked to amy all the way home. we're not back to "normal" yet but we're getting there.
and now, i just finished taking an online exam. i'm now officially certified (by the National Institute of Health) to study humans... imagine the possibilities...
[ forecast for tomorrow: low = 45, high = 67, mostly sunny ]
another day without earning another dollar
spending another late evening in front of my computer trying to settle my mind.
a quick bit of background, i volunteer work in a lab run by my electricity and magnetism professor...
had a very long day. made it to campus around 8, which i've been pretty good about this semester. spent an hour reworking homework problems that were due for class at 930. rocked a quiz in "electricity and magnetism II" this morning but forgot to bring the daily crossword to class so the 75 minutes of lecturing seemed to drag on forever.
oh and while i was taking the quiz, the professor walked up and told me that i need to quit smoking and that he has a plan to make that happen. i was flabbergasted. i don't smoke in class and i'm never late due to smoking so what the hell does he care if i smoke. he told me we would talk about it later in the lab. so i let it go until later.
booked a hotel room for grant and i for this weekend's trip.
grant decided that we needed to eat lunch off campus today. so instead finding my favorite bench and doing the reading i needed to do, i went to lunch with grant.
lab time. i actually got to see some of the process for making "skutterudites" today. it was intense. the grad student i was watching, who will most likely end up mentoring me, broke a $600 piece of equipment today. we all make mistakes but i'm glad it wasn't me and he should have thought through what he was doing first. hindsight is always 20-20. back to the smoking comment, so the professor came in after we had been in the lab for a few hours and told me that this summer, when i've graduated and don't have any course/exam stress to worry about, i'll have a relaxing summer working in his lab, so i won't have any problem quitting smoking. because it would be a terrible thing if i was a smoker and "needed" to leave a sample in one of the furnaces, presses, or vacuum systems while i ran to smoke, only to have some catastrophe happen in the lab while i was gone and i end up blowing up the building. he wasn't joking. guess i have to quit smoking.
i've decided grant and i spend entirely too much time together. he annoyed the piss out of me today. i don't think he can stand 30 seconds of silence let alone the good hour i need to get through some reading. he talked incessantly for the six hours we were in the lab today. i was ready to duct tape him to a chair and gag him by the end of the day just so i could have a little peace. i even brought my discman into the lab today because i knew i had to get through some background reading. nothing would shut him up.
so directly after lab, i had to follow grant home. his parents wanted to meet me. he never goes on trips and never brings anyone home. so they wanted to see what is so special about me that i can convince grant to go on a trip with me. so i put a smile on and played the role they wanted me to play. mom served dinner, dad planned our travel route. got to love the good old fashioned southern family dynamics. dad really doesn't like the fact that i'm driving and grant isn't but whatever. i've seen far more of the interstates around the state than grant has and i would prefer not being stranded without a car when we get there because he's off with his "lady friend". oh well, i was polite. that is all that can really be expected of me after a long day.
i really do love grant. we behave like siblings. some days we fight but most we don't.
talked to amy all the way home. we're not back to "normal" yet but we're getting there.
and now, i just finished taking an online exam. i'm now officially certified (by the National Institute of Health) to study humans... imagine the possibilities...
[ forecast for tomorrow: low = 45, high = 67, mostly sunny ]
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