Pyrotechnical display is just a fancy word for fireworks.
Daylight saving has ended and the days are one hour later now. Though I understand that in a way, this signified the beginning of winter, the weather change yesterday was ridiculous. It was even foggy outside, when I left. And it was cold enough that this morning I got out my poofy jacket, all ready to go.
Annie was moaning earlier today about bio. Or more specifically, about something along the lines of "bio is killing me in slow and painful ways". Added to her list of grievances is her eight 'o clock o-chem class. Once the nights get longer, gloom seeps in either but hey, all in the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, yes?
Class reg yesterday for me. 16 credits so far. Annie had taken a look at my schedule and pronounced me to be insane. I was not encouraged by the fact, but oh well, I'll take it as it comes.
Rose has had the free run of my room for three days now, and is currently deriving much pleasure from stalking the cat-nip-scented toy that Annie brought back over the weekend. (It's dead, Rose. DEAD. You may stop trying to kill it now.) She's also been sleeping outside for two nights, making it a very restless night for me the first night out and a very wary one the second. Last night she has migrated up the bed and eventually slept on my head (her breath's awful, for future references) so this morning I found my hair sticking out in all directions I've never thought possible before, despite of my discovery over the summer that I have, apparently, the type of hair that sticks up if clipped short enough. Hats are wonderful things.
And there will be lectures and work and homework and much rejoicing (with candy, of course) when it's all over. Cheers.
20061031
20061028
Recap: A picture's worth
Photo entry!
Gotta love one of these, eh?
All done just this morning. With labels for your amusement.
Bienvenido a mi casa. Or should I say, a nos casa?
Cat picture at the very bottom, so keep scrolling down. How's that for an incentive?
Gotta love one of these, eh?All done just this morning. With labels for your amusement.
Bienvenido a mi casa. Or should I say, a nos casa?
Cat picture at the very bottom, so keep scrolling down. How's that for an incentive?
20061027
Recap: It's green AND it wiggles
This week has been stressful. As predicted, group papers, much like group projects, means that the overall efficiency per person decreases while the total time spend on project increases. I had three hours of extra time on Sunday because the others didn't send in their stuff, and, try as I might, the efficiency of three hours on a Sunday was not enough to cover for the toll of the midterms week.
There, enough of that kind of language-- let's see if anything interesting has happened to me this week. Checking. Checking.
And the answer is, no, most assuredly. I can tell you about my midterms but that will either give people heartattacks or bore them to sleep, depending on the person. Rose is progressing slowly in terms of socialization and I'm currently at the point where I'm debating between getting her used to being picked up and getting her used to living outside the cage. Annie has donated some spare towels to day, and the most shredded one will, very likely, end up as the cat's chew toy. We also talked of starting our own herb garden indoors eventually, from the other day when I adopted the peas. Kate and I carved a pumpkin this afternoon and there are no reported human casualities. Annie's mom said that she'll be missing out on all the blood and it turns out that we're missing out, too. For some reason I don't feel particularly regretful.
Well-- onwards then. Possibly two more midterms next week, and then there's always the class registration....
There, enough of that kind of language-- let's see if anything interesting has happened to me this week. Checking. Checking.
And the answer is, no, most assuredly. I can tell you about my midterms but that will either give people heartattacks or bore them to sleep, depending on the person. Rose is progressing slowly in terms of socialization and I'm currently at the point where I'm debating between getting her used to being picked up and getting her used to living outside the cage. Annie has donated some spare towels to day, and the most shredded one will, very likely, end up as the cat's chew toy. We also talked of starting our own herb garden indoors eventually, from the other day when I adopted the peas. Kate and I carved a pumpkin this afternoon and there are no reported human casualities. Annie's mom said that she'll be missing out on all the blood and it turns out that we're missing out, too. For some reason I don't feel particularly regretful.
Well-- onwards then. Possibly two more midterms next week, and then there's always the class registration....
20061020
Recap: Feuille
The amount of time spent per class, as usual increases dramatically with the arrival of midterms. This has been a particularly eventful week with what I hope was the longest Monday this school year (hope, since I don't care to repeat the experience, ever again. There's a certain limit to the number of hours I'm willing to spend at school, and this's pushing it).
There are other events too, such as the final arrival of our foster kitten, Rose (will post picture within two weeks, promise). A description? Of course. Rose is a four-month old black and brown, medium haired tabby found in a litter of four in an abandoned attic/roof type place. She's, so far, petite with ears still on the large-ish side as typical of kittens. She also has round, terrified looking gold-eyes, which slowly gets less terrified looking and round as I chant my text at her. Eventually she event went to sleep during parts of it (proving that 1. textbooks really are that boring and 2. that textbooks are actually good for something such as, say, putting a high-strung kitten to sleep). Though she did purr through the bit about oxalate ion during chem, much to my bemusement.
I also adopted five pea-plants from my bio lab, from when our group did the gibberellin experiment. We had the option of either throwing it or adopting it, so of course I adopted the one for our group (there were two pots of five plants each for each group of five people). My labmates are amused by my tendency to adopt plants. So where my parents, come to think about it. My roommates are, however, the ones who will have to deal with it.
Am mostly caught up in terms of homework now. Still have one more paragraph to write and one more chapter to read (not to mention another midterm coming up) but all in all, I'm making fair progress, I'd say. Before you ask, Lusine, I am still working on the story. In fact, I've the rough draft in long hand and if I can get to an open computer lab somewhere on campus next week I see about getting it mailed over.
Davis homecoming game tomorrow. I'll see about going online again (really, my state of contact has been shameful lately). Rose says 'hi'. (Actually, she says "eow", but use that imagination, folks, use that imagination....)
There are other events too, such as the final arrival of our foster kitten, Rose (will post picture within two weeks, promise). A description? Of course. Rose is a four-month old black and brown, medium haired tabby found in a litter of four in an abandoned attic/roof type place. She's, so far, petite with ears still on the large-ish side as typical of kittens. She also has round, terrified looking gold-eyes, which slowly gets less terrified looking and round as I chant my text at her. Eventually she event went to sleep during parts of it (proving that 1. textbooks really are that boring and 2. that textbooks are actually good for something such as, say, putting a high-strung kitten to sleep). Though she did purr through the bit about oxalate ion during chem, much to my bemusement.
I also adopted five pea-plants from my bio lab, from when our group did the gibberellin experiment. We had the option of either throwing it or adopting it, so of course I adopted the one for our group (there were two pots of five plants each for each group of five people). My labmates are amused by my tendency to adopt plants. So where my parents, come to think about it. My roommates are, however, the ones who will have to deal with it.
Am mostly caught up in terms of homework now. Still have one more paragraph to write and one more chapter to read (not to mention another midterm coming up) but all in all, I'm making fair progress, I'd say. Before you ask, Lusine, I am still working on the story. In fact, I've the rough draft in long hand and if I can get to an open computer lab somewhere on campus next week I see about getting it mailed over.
Davis homecoming game tomorrow. I'll see about going online again (really, my state of contact has been shameful lately). Rose says 'hi'. (Actually, she says "eow", but use that imagination, folks, use that imagination....)
20061007
Recap: No depth involved
Home again, after school has started.
School has been interesting so far (notice I used the word "interesting", which therefore means that it's been a very mixed-sort of inexperience and I'm still unable to pin a more specific, one-word adjective on it). Latin is both more and less helpful than I'd expected, as far as connections with English go. It probably helped my Spanish more, had I continued to actively learn the language. In terms of English, I just get clobbered (repeatedly) over the head with all these grammar/ syntax terms that I've never heard before. My only consolation is that the native English speakers in my class are as confounded by the gazillions of rules and exceptions as I am which, in retrospect and considering the current standards of English, is poor comfort. One interesting fact that I've learned though: English apparently had regular (by which I mean weird and irregular) endings for words (think Spanish) all the way until the French took over, at which point they've apparently decided that the endings weren't fashionable anymore and dropped them.
I repeat, and will probably continue to repeat for the rest of my life: I do not understand fashion.
Being home again? It is nice, of course, as it generally is when you visit, which is what this actually is. But I AM thankful that I could be home on Mid-Autumn (happy belated Mid-Autumn to you all, too, though the Americans tend to call it the Mid-Autumn festival, much to my bemusement.) (You do not say "happy fourth-of-July BARBEQUE", you say, "happy fourth of July." So as for why people insisted on tagging on the word "festival"...well...?) I had "I'll Be Home for the Holidays" going through my head during part of the train trip, which amused myself no end. I also tried to write too, with dubious results. Clearly being on a swaying (side to side motion) train does very little to improve my penmanship. Equally apparent was the fact that cacti are a good conversation starter so, ladies and gentlemen, if you ever want to go out and meet people, lug around a container of cacti and see where it'll get you.
I have just blogged with no intentions in mind, and I find that I don't mind, either. I am still on schedule and on par for everything. Most of the plants in my garden have made it. The sky is blue outside of my window and has the particular sort of appearance that always made me feel like it's very close. Within reach, in fact.
School has been interesting so far (notice I used the word "interesting", which therefore means that it's been a very mixed-sort of inexperience and I'm still unable to pin a more specific, one-word adjective on it). Latin is both more and less helpful than I'd expected, as far as connections with English go. It probably helped my Spanish more, had I continued to actively learn the language. In terms of English, I just get clobbered (repeatedly) over the head with all these grammar/ syntax terms that I've never heard before. My only consolation is that the native English speakers in my class are as confounded by the gazillions of rules and exceptions as I am which, in retrospect and considering the current standards of English, is poor comfort. One interesting fact that I've learned though: English apparently had regular (by which I mean weird and irregular) endings for words (think Spanish) all the way until the French took over, at which point they've apparently decided that the endings weren't fashionable anymore and dropped them.
I repeat, and will probably continue to repeat for the rest of my life: I do not understand fashion.
Being home again? It is nice, of course, as it generally is when you visit, which is what this actually is. But I AM thankful that I could be home on Mid-Autumn (happy belated Mid-Autumn to you all, too, though the Americans tend to call it the Mid-Autumn festival, much to my bemusement.) (You do not say "happy fourth-of-July BARBEQUE", you say, "happy fourth of July." So as for why people insisted on tagging on the word "festival"...well...?) I had "I'll Be Home for the Holidays" going through my head during part of the train trip, which amused myself no end. I also tried to write too, with dubious results. Clearly being on a swaying (side to side motion) train does very little to improve my penmanship. Equally apparent was the fact that cacti are a good conversation starter so, ladies and gentlemen, if you ever want to go out and meet people, lug around a container of cacti and see where it'll get you.
I have just blogged with no intentions in mind, and I find that I don't mind, either. I am still on schedule and on par for everything. Most of the plants in my garden have made it. The sky is blue outside of my window and has the particular sort of appearance that always made me feel like it's very close. Within reach, in fact.
20061001
Recap: Quis es?
End of week two and I've already lost track of the number of cups of tea that I've drank. Not that I've had that many. In fact, on school days I doubt I'd have time to drink tea at all, so even THAT's going to be reduced.
Two days of school so far, and moving on to day three.
The temperature's already started dropping, which can only mean one thing-- that it will keep on dropping. I've a pretty good idea of my room configuration now and where to put stuff if more stuff comes, so should I find the time and the incentive, I'll take pictures of my room and post it. (Have added and will add the newspaper clipping and postcards unto my wall, thanksverymuchLusine, in that order.) No sign of the cat yet but it's going to be a whole new week soon.
Over and out. If I remember more later, I'll post.
Two days of school so far, and moving on to day three.
The temperature's already started dropping, which can only mean one thing-- that it will keep on dropping. I've a pretty good idea of my room configuration now and where to put stuff if more stuff comes, so should I find the time and the incentive, I'll take pictures of my room and post it. (Have added and will add the newspaper clipping and postcards unto my wall, thanksverymuchLusine, in that order.) No sign of the cat yet but it's going to be a whole new week soon.
Over and out. If I remember more later, I'll post.
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