Short, quick spasms

So I told my mom the other night, "Yeah. Alice and I were up really late on Tuesday working on our chmistry," and it dawned on me that, under different circumstances, that could have an ENTIRELY different meaning. I think.

Amazingly, this past Thursday didn't suck. I went to class, managed to read the 80 pages I was behind in my history class, remembered to write up my lab report, had time to eat dinner, and the lab was pretty easy if but a little boring (acid/base titrations- fun stuff!). And then I had Olive garden. Ok, this must only mean that certain doom awaits around the corner.

Gonna try and get a group to hang out at the student union tonight. They got a party goin on, and the pool hall will be open late and have bingo and karaoke.

My butt hurts, and I don't know why.

gonna try and sleep now.

enlightenment

Yoa know what I just realized? My English teacher IS Elise! Or at least very much so. Her name is Cat even!

KILOmeters!?!?!?!?!

So they announced that registration for the spring is coming up mid October. So what do I natually do? Already fugire out my whole freaking scheduke, that's all. Of course, these things are very subject to change. poo.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 4 main classes
Statics @ 8
Thermodynamics @9
Chem 105b@ 12
Jazz history@ 1 (I could instead take Rock History @10, but this way seems a llittle more evened out)

Tues, Thurs, 2 main classes:
Diff Eq @ not 'til 2 (PM! Yeehaw!)
Intro to ECE @ 3:30

And then:
Chem disscussion group Tues @ 12:30
Diff Eq discussion group Wed @ 2

So the bad things is 5 classes on Weds, but hopefully they're nicer overall than my current 4 class Thursday spread, which is just evil and, if it was able to, i would tell it to just suck it.

Why, if I wanted to, I could even get a job! (18 units aside)

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Also, it has been mathematically proven that 4 rather smart UHS people can make the exact same stupid mistake on one chem quiz and then feel really stupid afterward. Our Kryptonite? Converting to meters.

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/182/01_7.html

:)

new week, new starts

K, pretty much brushed off last week's troubles. Just a little mad at myself for not doing things thoroughly and methodically, cuz now we know what happens when I try and be all flexible. Oh well.

I totally forgot 2 things over the past week. Turns out my advisor is a lot like Achyut. he almost even looks like him except a little older, and his name's Arvind, so I think I almost called him Achyut at least once during my advising conference. Turns out that, if I REALLY wanted to, I could realistically graduate w/ an Engineering degree in 3 years (including this one!) cuz now I'm only 2 classes short of a year ahead, and theoretically could make those 2 up in lieu of the gen ed classes I've already got out of the way. Moral: AP's are good!

But I'm not that crazy enough to actually do it in 3 years, which would require roughly 17 units of hard shit per semester but I'm not lax enough to "coast" on like 12 units/ semester either. The solution: double major! So now I'd take like 16 units per semester AND have 2 degrees. Ain't that sweet? Somewhere in my mind a little blood vessel is on the verge of eruption I'm sure, but I'll worry about that later.

If you hated trig, Alice has some weird book for you to look at. But how can you not like triangles?

In the police report in the colllege paper it said that someone sent a box full of brokwn glass, a Bad English cassette, and a canvas to the UA police. That just seems really weird.

the splendor

It's allright. I'm ok. I think I can explain. I believe I'm the same. I get carried away.
It's allright. I'm ok. I think I can explain. I'm relieved, I'm relaxed, I'll get over ir yet....



just a little Thursday venting, that's all, cuz Thursdays really do suck.

I seriously need to learn how to read directions.

She didn't want the whole fucking essay, just the thesis and one example paragraph. Oh well, I cant't win, but at least I now might be better off in the slightly expanded time horizon. but I got it done at like 1 last night, so that's not too bad with all the distactions I had.

And then there's chem lab.

I just need to work on my time management skills, that's all. Oh, and reading firections, too.

in the ass

Oh whoopdeefuckindoo.

My 7 page English essay rough draft is due tomorrow. And NOT next Thursday. But at least it's a rough draft. My intro/thesis paragraph takes almost 2/3 a page, so it's s start. (Insert sound of high pinched cringe followed by curling back into the fetal position.) This is gonna suck.

AND YAY!

Nina won!

teehee, only like 400 Republicans voted. but of course the turnout is gonna be low when you only have one candidate. Though like 7% of those ballots were for write-ins.

naptime

The number of times I can distinctly remember falling asleep during a class are few and far between, but today another scratch mark went on the wall. And in a class of 13 people, I have a feeling the teacher knew too that I was asleep. It must have been just a few sconds, though, cause he was still on the same frame of mind. But still, I fell asleep today, and it just felt so weird.

But besides the large travel time and the iffy hours of sleeping (maybe due to the increased dose of caffeine I average daily) I have felt like a perfectly fine zombie. Got an A on my chem test, so that always helps an ego. English is freaking me out. I know if I just take some time to concentrate on it then something will come out, but for now I'm hesitant to just try. Chem lab still sucks. But there's just this big thrill that comes from it all. And I like it a lot. Next semester I'm comtemplating 18 units again just to help me on my graduate career. I seriously think that if I put the effort into it, I could leave with an Engineering degree and a math minor in 3 years. But let's not get ahead of ourselves yet. The hard part is compromising between the workaholic and the procrastinator within.

My cousin's turning 21 on Thursday, but won't get to see him until Friday at the earliest. He's a pretty quiet guy (and much more of a geek than I could ever be!) but I hope he has a good time. His dad's taking him to a bar I reckon.

And I voted today! I seriously think my mom and i were the first ones at our poll spot- the lady had no idea how to find the names or anything. But, alas, we voted. And then we had Brawley's for breakfast. Yummy! How can you go wrong with 4 pancakes, eggs, bacon, and milk for 3 bucks? I dare you to find a better bargain.

sleepy

so I had my first major test today- chem (shudders)- and for the most part it felt pretty good. I still don't know why I dispise chem so much, maybe just that I don't like the nano-sized concept. The lab would be more interesting to watch than actually do, but it provided a small, but tedious comfort.

Wemt to the Math office to officially declare a math minor. I'll probably wind up going back next semester to upgrade it to a full blown major, but now at least a plan is coming out of the woodworks. The lady was so helpful. The only things that bug me about the math major are that I have to take an actual computer programming class (AAHHH!) and one more gen ed Humanities class. I think I remember seeing that Latin American strudies was one of those, so that could be doable. Theoretically, I can do this in four years, but, meh, if it takes an additional semester then it takes an additional semester, but if it does look like it's gonna take an additional semester, then maybe I'll look into an Econ minor.

but now I am alone in my dorm in the middle of the afternoon. It is time to sleep.

undeniable proof

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google this for me

ok, so i just IMed with Alice, and out of nowhere I think of the line "We all get a little crazy sometimes". now, I seriously think that this is a long from a song. Or, if not, then REALLY close to a line from an actual song. the first person to figure out my conundrum wins a prize. (prize TBA)

thursdays are pretty uncool

Though I don't have a lot of homework due tomorrow, just engr 102 papers showing Microsoft Office Literacy, I feel rather overwhelmed a smidge. Class, work, class, work, eat?, class, meeting, fucking long class.

but I'm sure it's partially my fault. After all, it's easier to go and play DDR or talk to Sean Whitsitt for a half hour than to focus on homework. And I admit, I enjoyed those leisure things quite a bit. (I now envy Sean's comparably slightly easier schedule and proximity to school, though) But then it feels like I should've been spending the time doing something more physically productive, like homework. It's not that the work is necessarily hard, just that I have poor time management skills. (I.e. doing homeowkr that's due in 2 days as opposed to doing one due tomorrow.) But no one said this thing would be easy.

Right now I'm at homebase before i must leave for prehistory and chem lab (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) so I'm just keeping my head above water, which is good.

but all this walking makes me less grumpy, so that's good, as well. I'm gonna try and see about joining the Hispanic Engineers club (after all, I pertain to both requirements :) but it's at the same time as the math club. WAH! Our engineering seminar professor noted that we should have at least some organization experience on resumes, so I figured this is a good place to start.

And, Alice, sorry if i came off as offlandish yesterday. I just wasn't expecting to find out right before the class actually started. but I'll see ya tomorrow and on Saturday morning study. If the Road Runner cartoons were good for physics, what can we implement for chem?