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Sorry I haven't been saying much -- classes end on Wednesday, and so I'm in the midst of presentations and papers for my class projects. The good news is that tomorrow one paper and one presentation will be done, and then I have only one more paper left (and I have an additional week for that one). Hopefully it means I can be super productive on my research.
Since some of you may have heard part of this story from my dad: This weekend I was supposed to go to a wine tasting on Saturday night. I spent the afternoon working on the architecture paper with my partner, and we picked up wine on our way from dinner to her house, meaning to finish up the paper and then head over. But we discovered several problems with our data, and so we didn't manage to get finished with the paper on time. Eventually we were late enough that we wouldn't even be fashionably late anymore, and we were frustrated with the paper, so we decided to break out one of the bottles of wine.
The problem? No corkscrew. We both called our parents and bugged them for help. We tried screwing in a ceiling hook (but the threads were too close together), sticking a bicycle pump needle through (it was too short), making multiple holes (for air) with a nail and then pouring out through one (too small), prying pieces with nails and knives (didn't work), and sticking a hollow metal tube all the way through, feeding a wire in, and trying to make a hook. Eventually we did get it out, with the nose of a pliers. If nothing else, the break made us more productive afterwards. And my friend is going to buy a corkscrew.
In other news, I made saffron buns for Sankta Lucia day today, and on Friday I celebrated the first night of Hanukkah with latkes and applesauce. I like December and all the holidays.
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Today I slept in, since I had nowhere to go, anyway. And then I met up with my friend and project partner, and we walked to State St. to take in the snow and see the skiers and stuck cars and other winter things, and we got lunch there. There were some stores which were actually open, which surprised me a little. And then we worked on our project for 7 hours, which was approximately what we would have done, had campus not been closed. And then I came home and did some work for my research. All in all, I did approximately what I would have done on a normal day, only I didn't have to trudge through the snow to campus. They definitely made the right call in closing campus, though: there were a lot of stuck cars, and the bus system wasn't running. There wasn't as much blowing snow as they had warned about, but it certainly wasn't good driving conditions, either.
Also, we broke daily snow records for both yesterday and today: 7.1 and 7 inches, respectively. Lots of lovely snow.
A couple of links to pictures:
Mine, contains pictures of a couple snowy streets, an impressive snow sculpture, and the Cat. (I think this should be visible to even those without facebook accounts; if not, tell me and I'll put them elsewhere).
A fellow CS'er's, hopefully he will not mind that I link his site. He got a lot of good pictures, like the streetlight that collapsed, some trees on people's cars, and a down power line.
Tomorrow should be fun, too, since the windchill is supposed to be 20 below. I guess I will finally stop wearing my raincoat and break out my actual winter coat tomorrow, since I think the buses will probably be late/overcrowded, and I'll just walk to campus rather than waiting in the cold.
Okay, time for bed. Lots to do tomorrow; sadly the snow day did not change any of my deadlines.I'm feeling... :  snowy I'm listening to... : Winter Wonderland? |
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All afternoon people were a little anxious in the department, and people left earlyish, since the snow and wind was supposed to pick up around 6. We left around 5:30 for that very reason (plus, my advisor meeting had just gotten over and I didn't feel like I'd get anything else done without eating dinner). I'm glad we did, because the snow really did start to pick up after that.
And then, the school web site went down briefly from too many people checking the status of classes, and when it eventually came back up (in a light-weight version -- I guess most of the time the page doesn't get that much traffic), it said that classes for tomorrow are cancelled, and that no employees are supposed to go to campus unless they're authorized and it's vital. I wasn't expecting that -- it's apparently been over 30 years since the last time they've done this.
The nice thing is that I can stay home where it's warm. The unfortunate thing is that my group is presenting for architecture on Friday, and we were hoping to see what other people's presentations looked like tomorrow. We're planning to use the time tomorrow when we would have been in class to work on the presentation instead though, so hopefully things will still turn out okay.
Anyway, time to go to bed and watch the blizzard from my window!I'm feeling... :  happy I'm listening to... : Rin' -- Rin' Xmas Medley |
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I've spent the last three weeks trying to code an algorithm in scheme, and get it to give me the right answer. I think I just finally succeeded! I'd thought that before and been wrong, but this time I actually drew the graph of nodes that it runs on, and my answer looks correct. It's wonderful! I spent probably 6 hours on this today, and was starting to despair. I didn't do my laundry or work on my OS presentation, both of which I was really supposed to do today, but at least I finally got this done.
In other news, I like quiet Sundays where I just do homework/research.
I like pumpkin curry soup, which I made for lunch today. It was pretty delicious. I'm going to have to make it again soon. I do have enough leftovers for at least a couple of lunches or dinners, which is nice.
I like the little lights on my bed, and looking out at the apartment across the street and seeing Christmas trees through the window.I'm feeling... :  sleepy |
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I even like weekends near the end of the semester when I am busy and overwhelmed with homework. Even so, I went out to dinner today, and yesterday evening I watched a dvd with a housemate, and I went to the grocery store and target and the farmer's market. And I redid a bibliography and wrote part of a paper. Tomorrow I'm working on a presentation for another class, and doing some research, and also trying to make pumpkin curry soup and do some laundry. It should be fun.
Yawn. I think it's time for bed. I stayed up until a little past midnight last night by accident, and I'm feeling it now. Plus sitting in my pajamas with a warm blanket and a cat tends to make me sleepy.I'm feeling... : sleepy |
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Today was the first real snow of the season -- we'd had flurries before, way back in October, but today we had SNOW. It looks like it's stopped now, but there is white stuff on the ground, and that makes me pretty happy. I was pretty cheerful all day because of it, even though I'm a little stressed out. I don't know how I'm going to finish everything before the end of the semester.
Something else nice: my housemate let me try a segment of her pomelo, which had been sitting on the counter and intriguing me for a couple of weeks. Those are some pretty cool fruits.I'm feeling... : good |
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On my way to bed (long day today, exam tomorrow morning, and I can't wait until winter break), but the thing that I really liked today was the space heater at work. It gets really cold in there, but with the heater it's much cosier!
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Back in Madison after a very relaxing trip home to St. Paul. I didn't do very much schoolwork there, so I spent today trying to catch up with research, projects, and studying for my midterm Wednesday morning. I think the break was very good for me, though, even if I'm having a little trouble getting motivated for the last couple weeks of the semester.
Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, even if enough of us were recovering from being sick that we decided to stay inside. Considering that otherwise we chase cows or climb silos or touch the electric fence (well, I didn't do that last one ever), this was probably just as well. We made turkeys out of gumdrops and ritz crackers, and played lots of six-person hearts (naturally, we played 2 decks + 4 jokers = 6 queens of spades, which is probably not a real way of playing hearts at all). And we even played a little mafia.
I watched an old Doctor Who serial (Tom Baker!) with my sister.
I cleaned out my computer and removed a LOT of dust from it, and now it runs a lot quieter and cooler. Sadly I seem to have broken the keyboard while doing it, so I had to buy a usb keyboard after work today. I already carry around a mouse and an external harddrive with this laptop, and it has no battery, so it already wasn't very portable. Now it's way less portable. That's okay though, since I'm getting a netbook and will actually have a portable computer again.
I cooked a pumpkin. Then I made cookies out of it. They turned out kind of odd. I was going to make pumpkin curry soup tonight, but then I realized I'd have to go grocery shopping so I think I will wait until the weekend.
I got to see the poor kitty Heids one last time, which I hadn't thought I would. I was glad to be able to see her, but it was depressing how skinny she is.
I went to church for part of the time and got to sing songs and see people.
And now I am going to go to bed, since I need to not be late for work tomorrow.I'm feeling... : sleepy |
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I got new slippers this weekend. They're grey and they have backs, so my feet don't fall out of them; they also have soft rubber bottoms so I can sit crosslegged in my chair with them on. They keep my feet toasty warm so I don't sit on them all the time and cut off circulation. And they keep a certain cat from nibbling my feet.
To Minnesota people: I will be home Wednesday evening sometime, at the farm on Thursday, and probably leaving Sunday morning (I plan to be at church for at least a little while, but Madison is far away and we might leave before it gets over). So if you want to see me, you should get in touch!I'm feeling... : warm |
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This year I've been able to spend more time on thinking about food. (The university as a whole has also been thinking about it, since everyone is supposed to read "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. I haven't yet.) One thing I've started to appreciate is how easy it is to eat local (at least in Madison).
As most of you probably know, I grew up eating delicious vegetables from the farm. It's been something I've really missed. This year, I live only a couple blocks from the farmer's market, and it's gotten me eating much more healthily. (Even now that the market has moved indoors for the winter, and it's a couple extra blocks away). Going to the farmer's market is now part of my Saturday routine, and it's lovely.
Everything there is locally grown. This is excellent because it's all fresh. Nothing was picked unripe, shipped across country, and then artificially ripened. It's also very affordable. And there's enough stands that you can always pick out the tastiest/cheapest fruits and vegetables.
This weekend, since it's Thanksgiving, I only bought apples and brussel sprouts, but other times I have bought: onions, carrots, pumpkins, peppers, salad mix, strawberries, mushrooms, peas, beans, garlic, apple cider, cheese curds, broccoli, donuts, bagels, hot spicy cheesy bread, and probably other things.
Besides the farmer's market, even the grocery store nearby is selling milk from Wisconsin, and cheese from Verona (a town right near Madison).
If I want to go to a restaurant, I can go to places like Himal Chuli on State St., which buy local ingredients.
It is getting harder now that winter is approaching (although with the warm days, you'd never guess it was November). Already I'm having trouble finding mushrooms, and I had to buy California mushrooms at the store this weekend. But there will still be some vegetables, and I'll probably end up buying grapefruit -- during the summer, buying non-local grapefruit is harder to justify with fresh vegetables all around, but in the winter I think it's not as silly.
Besides eating good food, I spent this weekend studying. And more studying. And a little groupwork, a few chores and errands, and watching a movie (Serenity) with some CSers. Not terribly exciting. And now I think I will go and read through the notes for the exam tomorrow morning one more time, and hope that everything will stick!I'm feeling... :  studious |
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Yawn. Sorry I haven't updated for a couple days.
I like my pumpkin cookies, but the recipe is problematic. They turn out too cakey, and not very cookie-like. I'll have to experiment. Or, I could just make them into pumpkin bread. I'm not sure yet.
I'm very tired today, because I finally got my seasonal flu shot yesterday. Besides the normal general tiredness, my arm also got really sore, and apparently I roll over onto my left side a lot in my sleep. And so I kept waking myself up last night. I'm going to bed in a few minutes...
My advisor keeps trying to tell me to do stuff that is too hard. Maybe it will make me smarter. It will definitely make me very frustrated, which is bad since then I avoid doing research. I do have other things that need to get done, like work on my two major projects plus studying for the exam on Monday (for which I still haven't read all the assigned papers...), but I shouldn't be doing homework to the exclusion of my research.
My light fixture in my room is on the blink, so I'm sitting in the dark with just my Christmas lights. It's very relaxing, although it's possibly also encouraging me to go to bed sooner rather than trying to read a paper for the exam. Oh well.I'm feeling... : sleepy |
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So one of my friends, N, turned 23 yesterday, and she had a party. It was games night! And it was my kind of party in every way.
I brought cookies (go productive procrastination) and we all drank tea and played fun games! There were maybe 15 of us (about a dozen cs people, a psych student, and N's roommate, a math student). One group split off and played Dominion, which from my overhearing them trying to explain the rules, sounds like a ridiculously complicated game. They also played Flux, which sounds fun, but also complicated. My group played set, which I'm kind of terrible at, but we played in a friendly, cooperative way so it was okay. Also we didn't count points on anything in my group. I think we were the non-competitive people. Anyway, after that we played taboo, which I remembered hating but I actually had fun. Then we played boggle, which is super fun. And then we played telephone-pictionary, which is hilarious. Here is how you play:
1.) Everyone gets a piece of paper and writes down a sentence of some sort.
2.) Pass the papers one person over. They try to draw the sentence.
3.) Fold over the top of the paper so that only the picture is visible.
4.) Pass the papers again. Now you have to try to describe the picture in a sentence.
5.) Fold over the top of the paper so that only the sentence is visible.
This continues only the papers get back to their original owners. It can be pretty amusing. I had "Peter Piper picks a peck of pickled peppers", which turned into "I am running away from home and dropping bombs as I go". Other sentences that came up at various points from various starting sentences were "Water is very very very very very very handy" and "dolphins hate getting electrocuted." Good times. We ended up playing a round of it with 10 or so people, which was pretty amusing.
And so, my idea of a perfect party: quiet, two adorable kittens wandering about, cookies and tea and no alcohol, and just people being friendly and playing games. It makes me happy that I'm not the only one!I'm feeling... : happy I'm listening to... : Murray Gold - The Greatest Story Never Told |
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Quickly, since I should already be in bed (since I'm going to the farmer's market at 8:30 tomorrow like usual), my thing of the day is that I really like cooking while watching the Eurovision Song Contest! The contest is something I can watch without paying full attention, and cooking doesn't need full attention either, so it works out well. I watched the contest from 2006 while at the same time cooking applesauce and then baking cookies. Also I washed my large collection of dirty dishes. Fun times.
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Well, I sort of like them anyway. I really like winter and cold, so if we don't start getting some of that soon, I'll be unhappy. But for now, its nice for it to be warm enoguh out that you dn't always need a jacket. And that when I missed the bus tonight (by 30 seconds!) I could just shrug and walk home. Actually, I had meant to walk home, but then I saw the bus. If it had come right when I was walking past the stop I would probably have taken it, but as it was I didn't feel like waiting the 10 minutes or so before another one of the routes going my direction went past.
Yawn.
I've been trying to actually write real stuff in scheme (rather than the easy examples online... which aren't that easy for me either) and it's giving me a headache. It's completely different than the kind of programming I'm used to, which makes it frustrating since I know what I want to do and I know easy ways to do it in other languages, but not in scheme. Also the algorithm I'm trying to implement has pseudocode, but like most pseudocode it's written like an imperative language, not a functional language. So yeah. Wish me luck.
And now I should be off to bed soon -- trying to finish that scheme program tomorrow morning, as well as getting some stuff done for the 736 project of doom and the 752 project of doom!I'm feeling... : sleepy I'm listening to... : Murray Gold - The Lone Dalek |
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So some of the first year students (and a roommate, and maybe some others if they felt like it) have been getting together on Saturday nights to watch Firefly. There were only 4 disks though and we finished the last one this week. Next we'll watch Serenity, and maybe Dollhouse after that. It's nice, because it's a good, laid-back way of spending a weekend evening. Everyone's home by midnight, there's no dressing up or wandering around outside or drinking, and a great time is had by all. It's pretty much the nicest thing I could wish for.
In other news, my 752 partner and I decided to get lunch on our way to campus to work on the 752 project of doom. We tried out Himal Chuli, the Nepalese restaurant on State St, since we'd heard from friends that it was good. And it was delicious. I highly recommend it.
In other weekend news, my roommates J and K are back from a week-long trip (yay), and so the four of us plus D's boyfriend made dinner tonight and it was delicious. And it's nice to hang out with people. I did a lot of that this weekend, and I like it. It would have been good if I'd done more work on the 736 project of doom, but well, I'll work on it tomorrow evening. It will somehow get done.
Also, I made applesauce this weekend (thanks for the recipe, Mom!) and I think next weekend I will try making pumpkin cookies, since there was a pie pumpkin at the farmer's market for a dollar and I decided to be adventurous.I'm feeling... : cheerful |
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My office has a southwest window and is on 6th floor, so I have a very nice view. Earlier in the fall, I was enjoying the lovely fall colors. Now, I'm enjoying the lovely sunsets. The only bad thing is that I roast for a while in the sun each afternoon (I do have blinds, but they're broken so it's hard to make them stay open, so I avoid closing them). Actually, the other bad thing is that although I get to enjoy the beautiful sunset, this means I'm still on campus when it gets dark. I don't really like walking home in the dark, even if I've been doing it for weeks now.
In other news, I got everything that was due this week done, somehow. Go me!
And now I'm going to slack off for the rest of tonight.I'm feeling... :  lazy I'm listening to... : Rob Lane - Merlin's Arrival At Camelot |
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I am a big fan of bash. I like being able to automate things, because no one likes typing the same thing over and over or doing lots of little tedious tasks. Right now, I regularly run bash scripts that:
* create a calendar showing progress on file processing tasks
* run the programs to rename files, convert their format, and move them to new directories
* qc these files (that one is still being worked on though!)
* check for directories with duplicate or missing files
* check that all files on a list are in a directory
* run the delta debugging program over and over until it stops making the code smaller
* check whether programs are still failing in an interesting way (also for delta debugging)
* wrap the scheme slicing code for my research so I don't have to keep typing it (it's a pain, especially since if I'm logged in from home I can't make any mistakes and I can't use backspace)
* enter commands and otherwise set up and run simulations for my architecture class
* do a daily backup of some of my schoolwork and other important files
* email files to my gmail accocunt
And that's just what I can think of offhand. Bash is incredibly useful. It's also not bad to write, once you get the hang of it. I'm a big fan.
In other news, I have way too much homework, all due Friday. And I need to learn scheme in the next couple days. My advisor gave me a book about lisp, which is similar, and I've got several websites. But then, after that, I have to learn the api to her code, plus figure out how to start looking for bugs. She offered to go through an example with me this evening, but it was already close to 7 and I was dozing off, so I said I needed to work on my review due midnight (which was pretty much true, anyway), since I didn't think I was alert enough to get much out of it. The time change is rough on some of us.
And on that note I'm going to bed before I fall asleep. I can do my readings in the morning... sometime...I'm listening to... : Julia Ecklar - The Eternal Flame (God Wrote in LISP) |
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I spent this past weekend in Milwaukee with my dear friend Seiya (yes, I should at some point come up with a consistent set of aliases to call my friends by). It was lovely! I had lots of delicious food (and I even came back to Madison with some leftovers). I got to dress up. I got to see pumpkins. I ate a toffee apple. I slept enough and did some homework and slacked off some and generally had a lovely time.
And now I am in Madison. Back to endless readings, homework, research, and SSEC work!I'm feeling... : busy I'm listening to... : Andy Price - Robin Hood Theme |
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A lot of the time, the programming and projects I do are just meant for classes, and will never be seen by anyone other than the TA. But at work, I get to do some things that are actually useful. There isn't a particular reason I'm choosing to put this today. I did finish adding a comment system to one of my projects -- it's nothing big, but it's helpful. It's just really nice when you show something to someone, and they say "Oh! This is just what I needed!"
In other news, my boss's son visited work today, so I got to see him for the first time -- he was born sometime early last spring. He's a cute little guy. Umm. We finally are making progress on our project for architecture, after a week of trying to get the simulator to install. My cousin wrote an excellent song (to the tune of "Be Prepared"), which included the lines:
I know that you're all aporetic,
That krakens inhabit these lakes.
But since you are Olsons, be poetic!
Tell me why you think it's a fake.
My delta debugging has been successful and for the first time I actually said something in my group meeting that maybe didn't sound completely stupid. And tomorrow I'm leaving work early (well... 4:30.. which is pretty early....) to head for Milwaukee!
Pretty much my life is pretty good.I'm feeling... : happy |
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Another short entry, since I want to go to bed soon (I'm waiting on my OS group though -- we have a proposal due at midnight and I want to make sure it's been emailed in before I go to bed).
My new thing I like is delta debugging! It's a technique where you have an error, and then lines are automatically removed from the file that's giving the error until you have a much smaller file, with the same error. This is really helpful if you're trying to debug something -- it's much easier to find a problem in 10 lines of code than 1000. You can cut your files down to smaller sizes by hand too, but it's hard to do when you don't know why they're failing. For my research right now, I'm trying to run something on a bunch of files, and I don't understand what I'm running (and it's written in scheme, a language I don't know). I need to give bug reports to my advisor, and delta debugging is helping me quickly cut down files to manageable sizes. All I have to do is write a quick test that says whether the file still has the same error in every step. After that, I just run the program and it runs for a while, and when it stops, my file has been cut down to a size where I can edit out some of the remaining lines myself, and then end up with a small file that still shows the problem. It's handy!I'm feeling... : tired |
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On Sunday I went to the annual WACM dinner. (WACM, for those of you who might not know, is the Madison chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery's Committee on Women in Computing). WACM is a nice organization that lets us hang out with other women in the department, since even in graduate school at a school with a lot of women, "a lot" still only means 20%.
The other nice thing about WACM is that it results in free food. At the dinner we had lovely lovely food and dessert. Other times we've gotten free breakfasts. It's a good deal.
Oh, and there is one other thing I like about WACM. It's pronounced "Whack 'em", not "W-A-C-M". Because it just sounds cool.
And now I'm going to go write my review on AFS and NFS, because it's due tonight at midnight. Sometime soon I will try to get this journal caught up with today though!I'm feeling... :  hurried I'm listening to... : Howard Shore - Amon Hen |
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Yesterday afternoon I went to the Capitol to see a group of individuals underrepresented in American politics: zombies. There were lots and lots of members of the undead lurching about when we got there, including old zombies, kid zombies, a mime zombie, a LBGTZ zombie, some doctor zombies, and some others I now can't remember. They congregated on the steps on the State Street side, then started doing a lurching, boneless version of the Thriller dance. Then they chased a guy in a white jumpsuit and gas mask down the street, while simultaneously chanting protest slogans and making groaning noises.
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Sorry about skipping updating for a week! First I was sick, then I was home, and then I was madly trying to catch up on the work I fell behind on due to being sick and going home.
Going home was quite an adventure. I was all ready to walk over to the bus stop, and just wanted to check the quickest way to go since I was coming straight from campus rather than home, when I noticed that the bus station address was something weird. 15 minutes of frantic googling and web searching later, I found a news article saying the station had moved two weeks ago, to across lake Monona. It was no longer walkable, and it was somewhere between 6 and 9 miles away, depending on route. So I called up a nice friend from the department, who said he'd give me a ride. We then searched for the bus stop for something like 45 minutes, because we didn't realize that N and S Stoughton Roads run parallel to one another for some reason, or that the Greyhound station would now be one dingy room in a strip mall, with no illuminated signs or other way to find out where it is. We ended up pulling into every parking lot looking at the numbers on the buildings. The bus was 45 minutes late anyway, so I didn't miss it. I don't plan to take Greyhound again, though.
At home I got to go to the farm, where I helped dig potatoes (well actually, I just pulled the weeds), and had a generally wonderful time. On Sunday we sadly didn't have church. Instead I mostly did homework. I did get to see my neighbor though, who I hadn't seen in a long time! We got ice cream since it was so warm. And then on Monday I went to the dentist, and the bank to get a credit card, then the long ride back to Madison. Of course I forgot several things I needed, but luckily my mom is very nice and mailed them to me.
Otherwise, I've been working hard -- I had a lot due today. I need to leave in a couple minutes so I can print off the last part of my homework (also: write it...) before class starts.
There were two interseting lectures since last I wrote -- one by Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic, and one by Barbara Liskov, who has won the Turing Award (the computer science version of the Nobel Prize). Both were excellent, and we got free food after even!
And now I better really leave for campus, so that I have a good 20 minutes to type up and analyze and print my last problem, before my first class this morning.I'm feeling... : busy |
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I had brussel sprouts for dinner! We bought them at the market on Saturday, and cooked them up tonight. Or rather, my housemate D cooked them. They were tasty, I think. I really don't have much of a sense of taste at the moment though, since I have a cold. I'm taking some of the left-overs with lunch tomorrow, maybe I'll be able to taste them then. Otherwise it'd be kind of sad.
So yes, I still have a cold. Also last night I got up from my chair to go to bed, and my back started spasming. I tried to ignore it for a while, but eventually got up and ended up calling the nurse advice line... they said to take advil and to ice it. I haven't been doing so well on the icing part (it's cold!) but the advil is helping. It's been twingy and kind of uncomfortable, but I'm hoping the advil will keep it from spasming or getting inflamed and will stave off anything worse. Because lower back pain is really not that much fun. I suppose it means I should be getting more exercise or something. Sigh.I'm feeling... : still sick... |
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Today was the 50th anniversary of first meteorological satellite experiment, aboard Explorer-7. Since the guys responsible were from UW-Madison, there was a small celebration this morning at work. I was at a meeting though so I didn't go. They're having a bigger party for 3 days in November, as part of a conference.
Here are a couple of interesting links about this and about Verner Suomi, who was by all accounts very cool:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/17219
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Suomi/
Also, he founded SSEC, where I work. So I guess I might be a little biased.
In other news, I left work early today for the first time ever, because I was sick and miserable and couldn't get anything done, and felt bad getting paid there to sit and breathe germs around my coworkers. I would have just not gone to work at all today, except that there was a meeting and rescheduling it would have been a pain. But then even though I left, I couldn't go home really, so I sat in my office and probably annoyed my officemate with my constant sniffling. Luckily there was lots of that going on, so I didn't feel as guilty. I did skip a seminar I had been thinking of going to, and a study group. Hopefully my cold goes away soon! It'd been a long time since I'd had one, and I'd forgotten how miserable they are. My head hurts so much...Hopefully it clears up before my midterm on Friday.
This evening I couldn't concentrate on research so instead I discovered that I can watch swedish tv on svt.se. So I watched a couple episodes of "Tillbaka till Vintergatan" (Back to the Milky Way), which is an odd children's program. Then I watched an episode of Unna Junná, which luckily had subtitles since I don't understand Sámi. I learned about stars. Now I will go to bed I think, so hopefully I will recover faster.I'm feeling... : sick I'm listening to... : Swedish Dialect Mysteries in the background |
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