on nasality
Apr. 23rd, 2008 03:16 pmSo anyways-
I woke up this morning to my alarm clock reading 6:27 AM. I opened my eyes for a moment and noticed how bright it was outside already. Thirty seconds later, my roommate's alarm went off.
What on earth does she do so early of a morning?! It was bad enough when she would wake up at 6:45, let alone 15 minutes earlier (my alarm clock is 3 minutes behind real time. My 9:30 alarms wake me up at 9:27 according to it)
Anyways, I laid back and try to let the waves of sleep wash back over me before she started being loud in her morning routine, but schemes and dreams of demons and planes ran through my head (can you tell how stressed this project had me? I had gotten pretty good about laying stress aside in order to sleep, but after 5 hours of sleep I'm pretty susceptible).
Anyways, I awoke later to massive quantities of snot running down my nose, the first torrent of many today. The massively flash flood thunderstorm yesterday morning must have triggered all the trees to bloom and emit their pollen in my airstream. so I've been pretty miserable, if slightly coherent today. That is, I can think clearly, just not quickly.
We learned some massively fascinating things in physics today about the lensness of the eyeball, and I was astounded when JS informed us that the general 'near point' of the lens is about 7cm for the well-sighted young, and 20 cm for the aging populace. I may have misinterpreted what he said, but I think I can focus slightly well on things inside that range. I was also amazed that the far point of human focus is infinity. How awful would it be if we couldn't see the stars at all? Of course the smog and light pollution are doing their best to take that ability away. . perhaps I should move to Phoenix (for the stars and for the lack of pollen).
At lunch, it was revealed that the pomfreteria (did you know they are incorporating that dear nickname into the renovations they are making right now?) is trying to get us to cut down on wasting their food. I remarked to stu that they could do this by making good looking dishes tasty instead of merely good looking, and later Kaleb affirmed my statement, but I finished my plate of barbeque sandwich (and got that song stuck in my head for half an hour) and recieved a mini snickers bar for my trouble. sexcellent. Stu couldn't quite finish his quesadilla and his french fries both, so he recieved no compensation.
This brings my candy total up to about four pieces. I voted in the run off student goverment elections, so I felt free to take candy from the candidates for teh first time. (I refused to take anything from them earlier, seeing it as a bribe. However, when one side decided it was good policy to blast rap across the lawn where I was trying to study my french, the camel decided it had had enough).
In calculus, dr. meek surprised us all by bringing out some papers and saying we would have a quiz, and I felt so disheartened because not only did I not have a pencil with me, but also I hadn't practiced the problems at all. however, it was merely a bluff; he really wanted to refresh our minds on the parabola, the ellipse, to introduce the hyperbola, and bring together the hyperbolic sine and cosine with the idea of parametric equations.
I'm not sure I understand that all, having been busy sneezing during the lecture, but maybe it'll come to me xD
ANYWAYS THAT"S ALL MOSTLY IRRELEVANT.
The crux of today's experience was after our first GNEG meeting in several weeks when I stopped by my project advisor's office to talk about our failplane. He said the grade wouldn't be based so much on the actual performance, which really brings a load off my mind. Most of my waking dream this morning was ideas on how to invent a frisbee to deliver our nickel payload, so I can stop all that now, hopefully.
I do need to install the motor, or have someone help me install the motor, etc so that we can actually drop things. The dropping part is what I really enjoyed working on, because it's something much more accessible to understand. I liked learning about the airflow over the wings and body, but I don't know so much so thoroughly about it, so mostly my experience was asking [dumb] questions and building what I was told to build. So I don't feel so responsible about it. Anyways, I can concentrate on working on the presentation materials and writing an essay and studying parabolas, ellipses, power series etc than fretting that our plane doesn't fly.
I think I might make another post shortly. I've been distracted by a conversation now and it's piqued my interest on another subject besides my mundane life. 8)
I woke up this morning to my alarm clock reading 6:27 AM. I opened my eyes for a moment and noticed how bright it was outside already. Thirty seconds later, my roommate's alarm went off.
What on earth does she do so early of a morning?! It was bad enough when she would wake up at 6:45, let alone 15 minutes earlier (my alarm clock is 3 minutes behind real time. My 9:30 alarms wake me up at 9:27 according to it)
Anyways, I laid back and try to let the waves of sleep wash back over me before she started being loud in her morning routine, but schemes and dreams of demons and planes ran through my head (can you tell how stressed this project had me? I had gotten pretty good about laying stress aside in order to sleep, but after 5 hours of sleep I'm pretty susceptible).
Anyways, I awoke later to massive quantities of snot running down my nose, the first torrent of many today. The massively flash flood thunderstorm yesterday morning must have triggered all the trees to bloom and emit their pollen in my airstream. so I've been pretty miserable, if slightly coherent today. That is, I can think clearly, just not quickly.
We learned some massively fascinating things in physics today about the lensness of the eyeball, and I was astounded when JS informed us that the general 'near point' of the lens is about 7cm for the well-sighted young, and 20 cm for the aging populace. I may have misinterpreted what he said, but I think I can focus slightly well on things inside that range. I was also amazed that the far point of human focus is infinity. How awful would it be if we couldn't see the stars at all? Of course the smog and light pollution are doing their best to take that ability away. . perhaps I should move to Phoenix (for the stars and for the lack of pollen).
At lunch, it was revealed that the pomfreteria (did you know they are incorporating that dear nickname into the renovations they are making right now?) is trying to get us to cut down on wasting their food. I remarked to stu that they could do this by making good looking dishes tasty instead of merely good looking, and later Kaleb affirmed my statement, but I finished my plate of barbeque sandwich (and got that song stuck in my head for half an hour) and recieved a mini snickers bar for my trouble. sexcellent. Stu couldn't quite finish his quesadilla and his french fries both, so he recieved no compensation.
This brings my candy total up to about four pieces. I voted in the run off student goverment elections, so I felt free to take candy from the candidates for teh first time. (I refused to take anything from them earlier, seeing it as a bribe. However, when one side decided it was good policy to blast rap across the lawn where I was trying to study my french, the camel decided it had had enough).
In calculus, dr. meek surprised us all by bringing out some papers and saying we would have a quiz, and I felt so disheartened because not only did I not have a pencil with me, but also I hadn't practiced the problems at all. however, it was merely a bluff; he really wanted to refresh our minds on the parabola, the ellipse, to introduce the hyperbola, and bring together the hyperbolic sine and cosine with the idea of parametric equations.
I'm not sure I understand that all, having been busy sneezing during the lecture, but maybe it'll come to me xD
ANYWAYS THAT"S ALL MOSTLY IRRELEVANT.
The crux of today's experience was after our first GNEG meeting in several weeks when I stopped by my project advisor's office to talk about our failplane. He said the grade wouldn't be based so much on the actual performance, which really brings a load off my mind. Most of my waking dream this morning was ideas on how to invent a frisbee to deliver our nickel payload, so I can stop all that now, hopefully.
I do need to install the motor, or have someone help me install the motor, etc so that we can actually drop things. The dropping part is what I really enjoyed working on, because it's something much more accessible to understand. I liked learning about the airflow over the wings and body, but I don't know so much so thoroughly about it, so mostly my experience was asking [dumb] questions and building what I was told to build. So I don't feel so responsible about it. Anyways, I can concentrate on working on the presentation materials and writing an essay and studying parabolas, ellipses, power series etc than fretting that our plane doesn't fly.
I think I might make another post shortly. I've been distracted by a conversation now and it's piqued my interest on another subject besides my mundane life. 8)