Unexpected
I expected this past Wednesday to be a terrible day.
I do a research project on Wednesdays where I need to get up early and start working in the lab by 8:00 AM. It's not some sort of masochistic thing for me to do so, I just want to start early so we can finish things on time. Jenn had to get up at 7:00 to go on a field trip for her Machine Shop class so we decided that we would get up at 7:00 together. Unfortunately, Jenn got up and got in the shower while I went back to sleep. I didn't wake back up until 9:45.
>.<
I got up and immediately went to the lab, knowing that no one would be there until 10:00 but still expecting someone to be upset/angry with me for oversleeping, but nothing catastrophic resulted from me being two hours late.
I then went to lunch and talked with Roland about when we were going to rehearse for Dare to Diva, and finding no time in either of our schedules, we both got irritated and I decided to leave ModCon right after the lecture to go figure out what our dance was going to be.
Our Dare to Diva performance ended up being great. I collected the ModCon data later that day.
I thought the rehearsal started at 7:00, which would've given me zero free time to do anything.
It started at 9:00.
I came back at midnight to meet up with Derek and discuss what we were going to do for our ICB project. I was under the assumption that our system, an Electrostatic Precipitator, would be ridiculously hard to model and I would be up until 6 in the morning trying to get a MATLAB simulation running. I sat on the couch in one of the lounges in my PJs with a water bottle. I couldn't find Derek. My momentum was zero, my inertia was zero, I sat and sat there and just didn't feel like doing a whole lot of anything.
I went to sleep by 2:30. John liked our outline.
On Friday we had the fire alarm go off during ICB lecture which resulted in all of the freshmen (and several people in the AC) outside on the great lawn. It wasn't particularly warm, but it was sunny and I was awake. Bunches of freshmen huddled around in groups and chatted; frisbees materialized from the res halls, and everyone was just in a state of good cheer. The fire alarms stopped going off after about thirty minutes so we were able to get back to lecture. For the rest of lecture we discussed more things about partial derivatives and whatnot, but the unexpected recess made me ridiculously happy. I was in a lecture about electrostatics and I was grinning and humming a happy tune in my head and feeling a sensation of strong, unshakable joy.
My mind wandered back to my last checkup where the nurse practicioner told me that my blood pressure was 102/60.
102/60
I have fantastic blood pressure.
I do a research project on Wednesdays where I need to get up early and start working in the lab by 8:00 AM. It's not some sort of masochistic thing for me to do so, I just want to start early so we can finish things on time. Jenn had to get up at 7:00 to go on a field trip for her Machine Shop class so we decided that we would get up at 7:00 together. Unfortunately, Jenn got up and got in the shower while I went back to sleep. I didn't wake back up until 9:45.
>.<
I got up and immediately went to the lab, knowing that no one would be there until 10:00 but still expecting someone to be upset/angry with me for oversleeping, but nothing catastrophic resulted from me being two hours late.
I then went to lunch and talked with Roland about when we were going to rehearse for Dare to Diva, and finding no time in either of our schedules, we both got irritated and I decided to leave ModCon right after the lecture to go figure out what our dance was going to be.
Our Dare to Diva performance ended up being great. I collected the ModCon data later that day.
I thought the rehearsal started at 7:00, which would've given me zero free time to do anything.
It started at 9:00.
I came back at midnight to meet up with Derek and discuss what we were going to do for our ICB project. I was under the assumption that our system, an Electrostatic Precipitator, would be ridiculously hard to model and I would be up until 6 in the morning trying to get a MATLAB simulation running. I sat on the couch in one of the lounges in my PJs with a water bottle. I couldn't find Derek. My momentum was zero, my inertia was zero, I sat and sat there and just didn't feel like doing a whole lot of anything.
I went to sleep by 2:30. John liked our outline.
On Friday we had the fire alarm go off during ICB lecture which resulted in all of the freshmen (and several people in the AC) outside on the great lawn. It wasn't particularly warm, but it was sunny and I was awake. Bunches of freshmen huddled around in groups and chatted; frisbees materialized from the res halls, and everyone was just in a state of good cheer. The fire alarms stopped going off after about thirty minutes so we were able to get back to lecture. For the rest of lecture we discussed more things about partial derivatives and whatnot, but the unexpected recess made me ridiculously happy. I was in a lecture about electrostatics and I was grinning and humming a happy tune in my head and feeling a sensation of strong, unshakable joy.
My mind wandered back to my last checkup where the nurse practicioner told me that my blood pressure was 102/60.
102/60
I have fantastic blood pressure.