• On Life and Love

    At work again.

    … it’s so silent… I love the study time, but fear for the rush that will come and consume me, lone HD operator, at any moment… Boo DISCO II, yay catnaps, boo novel-reading. Actually, just “boohiss” will suffice for this whole week.

  • On Life and Love

    Wa-pow, biatch!

    I’d like to preface this by saying that Markov chains are awesomely cool entities. I’ll also say that I found the opportunity to program them to be fascinating and fun. I’ll even toss in a (*Grin*) for the grade the testing script gave me. Not perfect, but we’re definitely entering “time sink” area, and I can’t afford that this week. Now I’m going to bitch about how many miniscule details fucked that shit up every step of the way. Holy shit I have lost too much sleep for a project that was supposed to be review. And since I bombed the first 40% of the project, the best I can…

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    Experiment, experiment, study–oh, wait. No glassware.

    That was actually Wednesday, Thursday, and today. So I’m cleaning glassware all day so I can do a study to refine our methods. I want to come in tomorrow to do the study so I can have an entire day with the lab all to myself and not have to fight over elbow space, but policy states I need a babysitter, and I don’t have one. I got new running shoes today (not particularly cute, but they are very comfy), and I’m fighting my desire to run a week’s worth before Sunday, because that would just do no good. I simply have much excess energy I need to burn off…

  • On Life and Love

    Oh, the Agony

    Last night, I joined some girls on my floor and a women’s fraternity on a outing to a place called Pumpkin Works. Pumpkin Works is a plaze with various mazes (and other things like hayrides, methinks). Their star attraction is a 6-acre maze, cut from a corn field, in differnet shapes each year. So you go at night, with some buddies and a flashnight, and try to make your way through the maze. Similarly, there’s a maze in which you weave your way through extremely claustrophobia-inducing walkways of hay with low ceilings, interspersed with short bits of crawling and the like. They have other stuff, too, but those are the…