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So! Went hiking with Mary and YL this morning! We were done around 9.30, and I headed to my office to get some work done. Pretty good run... got more entered into Zotero and start writing some responses to some articles too.
Dr. HM happened to be around to talk to the undergraduate affairs manager, and he stopped by my office to chat with me about stuff. He's teaching Reading World Literature this quarter, and figured he'd invite me to give a guest lecture about steampunk. Should be fun!
One thing I don't like about Zotero is that there's no word processing function, and it's not clear to me how I should insert citations. I'm going to try using Word in tandem with Zotero at some point, because Word has a Citation function which I've never tried.
Around 3pm, Xio came by to say hi, and we chatted. She's in Dance, but she has a TA-ship in Linguistics, so she'll be in the office next to me! I'm excited to be able to hang out with her more; we had a great time together in Fashion Theory last spring.
At 4pm, I went to Day Street with YL and her bf, because she hates her mattress and has been sleeping on the floor as a result. She's also never gone shopping for a mattress before, so I had to tell her, a lot, to just, get on the beds and lay on them. We hit up one mattress store and she was so, hm, fussy? I'd use the term kan-chiong. I thought there might be something at Target so we went, and she was so snappy at her bf, it didn't feel normal. (To be fair, dude was giving her a hard time about how she SHOULD have a bed because spine alignment, even though she said that several of her family members sleep on the floor to deal with back pain. She's not the only one I've met who requires an extremely firm surface to sleep on--Chi's like that too. But she's also never had a new mattress before, and that sort of thing makes all the difference.)
So, I suggested we went to get some food, and we took ourselves to Ono Hawaiian BBQ. I've forgotten how much food they give for a fast food place! But after that, YL was feeling MUCH more cheerier. Food, clearly, is the panacea.
We checked out the Sleep Number store, because I'd never been and she'd never even heard of it! And! The shop has an imaging station! Where you lie down and it has a sensor to detect muscle tension! And then a screen to compare how the muscle tension is being relaxed as you change the sleep number! Waaahhhh!!! (YL says she likes a 100, but she can do an 80 too.) And they have beds where left and right sides can have different sleep numbers! Which, I said to YL and bf, sounded important, because he thinks her bed choices are hella uncomfortable.
(It was surprisingly cheaper than I expected. $1064 for the bed, and $180 delivery fee. Also exchangeable, and refundable. If I had known this was the price when I first moved here, I would absolutely have bought one. My last bed was $2000, and it was wonderful and comfortable, but definitely not adjustable! My current bed I bought on sale for $500, and it came with a free box spring. It's a lot firmer than I like my beds, too.)
We checked out a third store, and then headed back to the first store to try out the beds again, and YL was in a much better mood about it. She DOES have a bed but it's provided by management so she has to find out how to deal with that. Anyway, we ended up at Best Buy and Bed Bath And Beyond with no mattress to show for it. It was.... a lot of walking.
Tomorrow is International Student Orientation! Starting 8.30, joy.
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Dr. HM happened to be around to talk to the undergraduate affairs manager, and he stopped by my office to chat with me about stuff. He's teaching Reading World Literature this quarter, and figured he'd invite me to give a guest lecture about steampunk. Should be fun!
One thing I don't like about Zotero is that there's no word processing function, and it's not clear to me how I should insert citations. I'm going to try using Word in tandem with Zotero at some point, because Word has a Citation function which I've never tried.
Around 3pm, Xio came by to say hi, and we chatted. She's in Dance, but she has a TA-ship in Linguistics, so she'll be in the office next to me! I'm excited to be able to hang out with her more; we had a great time together in Fashion Theory last spring.
At 4pm, I went to Day Street with YL and her bf, because she hates her mattress and has been sleeping on the floor as a result. She's also never gone shopping for a mattress before, so I had to tell her, a lot, to just, get on the beds and lay on them. We hit up one mattress store and she was so, hm, fussy? I'd use the term kan-chiong. I thought there might be something at Target so we went, and she was so snappy at her bf, it didn't feel normal. (To be fair, dude was giving her a hard time about how she SHOULD have a bed because spine alignment, even though she said that several of her family members sleep on the floor to deal with back pain. She's not the only one I've met who requires an extremely firm surface to sleep on--Chi's like that too. But she's also never had a new mattress before, and that sort of thing makes all the difference.)
So, I suggested we went to get some food, and we took ourselves to Ono Hawaiian BBQ. I've forgotten how much food they give for a fast food place! But after that, YL was feeling MUCH more cheerier. Food, clearly, is the panacea.
We checked out the Sleep Number store, because I'd never been and she'd never even heard of it! And! The shop has an imaging station! Where you lie down and it has a sensor to detect muscle tension! And then a screen to compare how the muscle tension is being relaxed as you change the sleep number! Waaahhhh!!! (YL says she likes a 100, but she can do an 80 too.) And they have beds where left and right sides can have different sleep numbers! Which, I said to YL and bf, sounded important, because he thinks her bed choices are hella uncomfortable.
(It was surprisingly cheaper than I expected. $1064 for the bed, and $180 delivery fee. Also exchangeable, and refundable. If I had known this was the price when I first moved here, I would absolutely have bought one. My last bed was $2000, and it was wonderful and comfortable, but definitely not adjustable! My current bed I bought on sale for $500, and it came with a free box spring. It's a lot firmer than I like my beds, too.)
We checked out a third store, and then headed back to the first store to try out the beds again, and YL was in a much better mood about it. She DOES have a bed but it's provided by management so she has to find out how to deal with that. Anyway, we ended up at Best Buy and Bed Bath And Beyond with no mattress to show for it. It was.... a lot of walking.
Tomorrow is International Student Orientation! Starting 8.30, joy.
This entry was originally posted at http://jhameia.dreamwidth.org/203568.html. Please comment there using OpenID.