Monday, November 21, 2005
Almost Thanksgiving
I said that because I didn't have a better title.
Let's see, the first important thing that's happened since I last wrote is that David Kane '88 linked my previous post from EphBlog. Too bad it wasn't a more interesting post, eh? Gosh, now everyone knows about my fashion emergency! Maybe I should wear a bonnet or something! You can always tell when that happens from the spike in traffic. And the fact that all the referrals are from EphBlog. And the fact that EphBlog has a post on it, of course.
Also, old business, here are links to my Web page, normal blog, and my Running bLog. Please note the clever capitalization on that one. Someone has tried to convince me to put all the blogs into one, but until I do that, they're all being linked separately like that.
I made a delicious chicken dish with spinach. My parents know about this because I was talking to them on the phone -- or, more accurately, they were talking to me on the phone -- while I was chopping up the chicken. It was pretty delicious. It was so delicious that when I went to have it for lunch today, people had already eaten it. That's impressive. It's probably because I put half a stick of butter and some salt in it at the end. That makes more of a difference than the lovely spices. Sad, isn't it?
My lightbulb, which, if you will remember back to approximately a fortnight ago, I JUST changed, burned out today. Only one of the two burned out, but still, it says on the package it's supposed to last a year. One year != one fortnight.
I bought all of the food for Thanksgiving. It was about $25. This is mostly because when I would try to put something in my handbasket of things that I was paying for, Valerie would take it away and say "no, the house is buying that for you." I did pay for my turkey all by myself, though. It is only a piece of a turkey. I suppose it is about the size of a Cornish Game Hen. If you were a Cornish Game Hen, you'd want your name to be capitalized, too.
Lisa helped me with my project over the weekend. We decided that modeling the actual accretion of sediment was just too hard. So I fit a quadratic curve to my data, and now we're making a nice little animation of a marsh growing, represented by a bar (the bar of "bar graph" fame) growing. The rough draft of the paper is due on Wednesday at noon. It will not have this animation with it. Because MatLab is super difficult. I can program programs in my calculator, Java, and Mathematica, but MatLab I have not learned yet. And, wouldn't you know, that's the one I need.
This morning I violated my 40° rule. I went running in shorts and a T-shirt even though I was pretty sure it was going to be below 40° out. And it most certainly was. The sun had not risen, but the sky was light, and it was yellow over by where the sun would be rising presently. My skin froze, but otherwise I was okay. After I got back and took a shower, I checked the temperature, and it was 32°. So I am officially hard-core. But more just hard on the outside, where the skin froze. No, not really. And I had gloves on. My parents brought me my running gloves from middle school. But they brought two rights instead of one right and one left. That's all right; just the writing is on the top of one hand and on the palm of the other.
Also, you should write to me NOW, because stamps are going up to 39 cents on January 8. You read it here first, and I read it at the USPS site first.
I guess I'd better get back to my history presentation for tomorrow.
Let's see, the first important thing that's happened since I last wrote is that David Kane '88 linked my previous post from EphBlog. Too bad it wasn't a more interesting post, eh? Gosh, now everyone knows about my fashion emergency! Maybe I should wear a bonnet or something! You can always tell when that happens from the spike in traffic. And the fact that all the referrals are from EphBlog. And the fact that EphBlog has a post on it, of course.
Also, old business, here are links to my Web page, normal blog, and my Running bLog. Please note the clever capitalization on that one. Someone has tried to convince me to put all the blogs into one, but until I do that, they're all being linked separately like that.
I made a delicious chicken dish with spinach. My parents know about this because I was talking to them on the phone -- or, more accurately, they were talking to me on the phone -- while I was chopping up the chicken. It was pretty delicious. It was so delicious that when I went to have it for lunch today, people had already eaten it. That's impressive. It's probably because I put half a stick of butter and some salt in it at the end. That makes more of a difference than the lovely spices. Sad, isn't it?
My lightbulb, which, if you will remember back to approximately a fortnight ago, I JUST changed, burned out today. Only one of the two burned out, but still, it says on the package it's supposed to last a year. One year != one fortnight.
I bought all of the food for Thanksgiving. It was about $25. This is mostly because when I would try to put something in my handbasket of things that I was paying for, Valerie would take it away and say "no, the house is buying that for you." I did pay for my turkey all by myself, though. It is only a piece of a turkey. I suppose it is about the size of a Cornish Game Hen. If you were a Cornish Game Hen, you'd want your name to be capitalized, too.
Lisa helped me with my project over the weekend. We decided that modeling the actual accretion of sediment was just too hard. So I fit a quadratic curve to my data, and now we're making a nice little animation of a marsh growing, represented by a bar (the bar of "bar graph" fame) growing. The rough draft of the paper is due on Wednesday at noon. It will not have this animation with it. Because MatLab is super difficult. I can program programs in my calculator, Java, and Mathematica, but MatLab I have not learned yet. And, wouldn't you know, that's the one I need.
This morning I violated my 40° rule. I went running in shorts and a T-shirt even though I was pretty sure it was going to be below 40° out. And it most certainly was. The sun had not risen, but the sky was light, and it was yellow over by where the sun would be rising presently. My skin froze, but otherwise I was okay. After I got back and took a shower, I checked the temperature, and it was 32°. So I am officially hard-core. But more just hard on the outside, where the skin froze. No, not really. And I had gloves on. My parents brought me my running gloves from middle school. But they brought two rights instead of one right and one left. That's all right; just the writing is on the top of one hand and on the palm of the other.
Also, you should write to me NOW, because stamps are going up to 39 cents on January 8. You read it here first, and I read it at the USPS site first.
I guess I'd better get back to my history presentation for tomorrow.
