Wednesday Ramblings

Once again, the reason you all are hearing from me is because I have a ton of studying to do and have learned ways to distract myself from doing so. Apparently something is going well with the World Series...or the gangs of San Jose are rising up. Why not? Tonight is just a good a night as any for a gang uprising I suppose.

Anyway, so here's the news:

I have moved my office from the grad room to the lab on the 8th floor. Now that I spend a lot more time on campus trying to study, I have come to realize that other than the wee hours of the morning and the late hours of the night, the grad room can become very loud and distracting. I am not getting any studying done in there.

So here's my new desk.

It came complete with plenty of sunshine and half a bottle of Tennessee Whiskey. What a deal!

Also, the other morning I took these photos from the roof of the lab as the sun was coming up:

Oooh, aahhh.

Anyway, where was I?

So the lab is a nice quiet place to study. Not a whole lot of distractions. The only thing is that the nearest bathroom is two floors down a tower-like stairwell (no elevator). I guess it's good exercise.

There's also an issue with not being able to close the blinds (it's complicated) but I got two of them closed today, and they're actually adjustable. The other one that I'd really like to close is a bit more of a problem.

Computer programming is suddenly going ok, but actually no different than before. Sometimes my code works and I'm not sure why, and other times it doesn't work and I'm not sure why. Right now apparently my latest code works beautifully in a parallel universe, but I am not in that universe. I can't get it to run but my instructor can (and all you do is hit "run" strangely enough). She says it's beautiful. When I hit run I get an ugly red code that starts with "Warning!" and then some other gibberish I can't understand. That's a new error message to me. I should compile these error messages and make a little booklet. Terms of endearment as said by my computer. Like a couple weeks ago when it was lining out its expectations of me. Complete and utter baloney.

So somewhere out there, my computer code works which I suppose is a good thing.

Last night I went to bed, unable to get my code to work (in case you're wondering, computer code is all the things behind the scenes that our computers do in order to make all this stuff we want to see work) and had crazy frustrating dreams about trying different codes. I woke up around midnight with a couple ideas of how to make the code work. I got up and jotted them down, then went pee. This is where bad went to worse.

My eyeballs felt sticky. I realized I had forgotten to take my contacts out. I guess in my attempt to grab the contact case, I somehow knocked it into the toilet...that I had not flushed. I had to fish it out. Thankfully I was with it enough to remember exactly where another case was and tossed out the other one. I don't remember whether or not I washed my hands.

So tomorrow I have to figure out what is up with (or not up with) my code, take a quiz, go to a few classes, and study for next weeks Calculus and Physics exams. It's almost Friday. I can make it.