Meh.
I'm not sick anymore, but boy did I oversleep today. I stayed up later than I should have last night, on top of just getting over being sick. I wasn't really all the way better yesterday.
I got my new glasses in on Thursday! That was a definite pick-me-up. The lenses are shaped differently than my other pair, so it's taking a bit to get my depth perception back with these ones.
Well, excess dedication to astro lab does pay off. Even when the data stil refuses to work correctly. After eight hours spent working on the optical spectroscopy data, Dr. Hofner managed to hook up a printer to the good linux machine (le gasp!!) and I managed to deduce that it was not me screwing up the @add program in class, but rather the @add program screwing up. For some reason it predicts the deuterium lines perfectly (even gamma, which was not used in the calibration), but fails miserably for neon and all of the rest. We could identify the neon lines by strength and spacing, but the wavelenth scale between the lines was seriously on CRACK. Jason and I attacked it ferociously to no avail. He told me to take what I have and just do a write-up, since I'd worked hard enough on it.
The fact that I managed to struggle through it mostly on my own, though, has made be feel quite good about myself.
Went to El Camino afterwards with Margaret, and then stopped at Trowbridge's for Buffy. Buffy night! Woo! Thank god--season seven is so much better than season six. As Margaret put it, we've got the biggest bad of them all (the First Evil--the Evil that made all other evils), and Buffy actually seems like she's winning. She's not failing with real life like she was in season six (god that was a painful season...and I only saw the latter half of it).
Hmm...woke up today too late to go to painting, and feeling a little sick again. Meh. It'll go away.
And now I have a psych paper to write. Cheers!
I got my new glasses in on Thursday! That was a definite pick-me-up. The lenses are shaped differently than my other pair, so it's taking a bit to get my depth perception back with these ones.
Well, excess dedication to astro lab does pay off. Even when the data stil refuses to work correctly. After eight hours spent working on the optical spectroscopy data, Dr. Hofner managed to hook up a printer to the good linux machine (le gasp!!) and I managed to deduce that it was not me screwing up the @add program in class, but rather the @add program screwing up. For some reason it predicts the deuterium lines perfectly (even gamma, which was not used in the calibration), but fails miserably for neon and all of the rest. We could identify the neon lines by strength and spacing, but the wavelenth scale between the lines was seriously on CRACK. Jason and I attacked it ferociously to no avail. He told me to take what I have and just do a write-up, since I'd worked hard enough on it.
The fact that I managed to struggle through it mostly on my own, though, has made be feel quite good about myself.
Went to El Camino afterwards with Margaret, and then stopped at Trowbridge's for Buffy. Buffy night! Woo! Thank god--season seven is so much better than season six. As Margaret put it, we've got the biggest bad of them all (the First Evil--the Evil that made all other evils), and Buffy actually seems like she's winning. She's not failing with real life like she was in season six (god that was a painful season...and I only saw the latter half of it).
Hmm...woke up today too late to go to painting, and feeling a little sick again. Meh. It'll go away.
And now I have a psych paper to write. Cheers!