I can't find my yellow highlighter that I swear I set aside for home use only. Maybe it's in my desk in the grad room. I had so many of them in my little accessories case that my aunt and uncle got me for Christmas that I decided I'd start pulling them out and staging them in strategic places. I could have a couple in my desk, one at home and two in my case that I have with me all the time.
I have the same issue with pens (and highlighters) as I do with chapstick. The guys at the lab have nicknamed me Chapstick. I own at least 9 or 10 tubes of it but can never find any. I own 5 or 6 yellow highlighters but don't really know where they are. I know where 4 orange ones are but those don't help. I only highlight with yellow. Other colors are for multi-coding notes. I won't even bother to explain that.
What's funny about all this is that last week I could not find a pen. Yesterday I pulled 6 pens off my living room table and put them back in my "office supply" drawer. Where did all those things come from? Pens are everywhere right now. And 3 pencils! There were 3 pencils on my living room table as well.
My living room is currently overrun with books. I'm also doing shots... of espresso. I'm on number two. It's fun, you should try it.
Each of my four classes comes with 2-3 books each. Three of my classes also come with "...For Dummies" books because...well, because I need them. I also had to buy a special engineering pad for Meteorology and that's about the size of a book. There are books to the left and right of me. Books by my feet on the coffee table, books on the floor, books on the couch, and a couple I left at school on my desk (although for the life of me I could not tell you which ones).
I have completely mixed up my calculus and physics classes. Last week I got an email about adding a class from what turned out to be the physics department. So I took my add code and tried to add calculus. I got an error so I responded to the email that the add code didn't work. Almost immediately I got an email from someone else with a different add code and successfully used it to add calculus...although I have no clue where that code came from. Then later in the week I received a response back from the original lady worried that I was not able to add physics. I thought we were talking about calculus so I told her I was able to add it and everything was ok. Earlier this week I realized I was conversing with two different departments. I had added physics long before either of the two conversations.
When I try to access my calculus professor's webpage to look for assignments, I go to the physics department website. Daily. This has to stop.
Shot number three. Why all the espresso? I'm trying to catch up on all my homework and studying that I started out behind in. Because as a grad student, I can only crash undergrad classes and therefore cannot get book and reading info until the first day of class...which automatically puts me behind. Then you add an awesome holiday weekend in San Diego in which nearly nothing got done, and you have three shots of espresso and half a dozen chapters to read before Monday.
I just finished a tough physics assignment that required the emergency learning of several math topics. Our assignment that's due tomorrow night includes two topics in physics that we haven't covered yet. It also included some hectic math.
My choices of what to study next were: calculus, the next chapter of physics, meteorology, or computer programming. Being as I just burned myself out on math and physics, that leaves meteorology and computer programming. My "Unix For Dummies" book sits on my coffee table in front of me, "Using Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences" (no, Python is not a snake...ok it is, but that's not the python we're talking about here) sits next to me on the couch. I thumbed through that one. Nope nope nope.
Meteorology it is. My meteorology book is currently buried under: engineering pad, a massive physics book, the newest edition of Bicycling magazine, and my accessories case....which I brought out of my backpack in order to find a yellow highlighter.
Which brings me here. Procrastinating. Three shots of espresso later.
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