We can haz good news?
I turned in my last graded quantum mechanics assignment today. Which means, basically, that I only have the final between myself and being free of quantum mechanics until graduate school, assuming that a graduate school wants me enough to pay me for the privilege of my company.
Well, that would be the case except that our amazing department chair is willing to take some time out of his schedule each week to go over advanced quantum mechanics topics. You know, graduate school type stuff. So there's no way that I could possibly let that go by. It's not even a class, either, I'm doing this for fun. QED, QFT... particles/antiparticles... black holes, black hole evaporation, Feynman diagrams, quantum computing, maybe...
So basically all the reasons I even like physics in a delightful once-a-week informal lecture... thing. ^___^
My grandfather is ill. However, even though my mother sent me an exceedingly dire email, it seems that he's doing more or less okay given the circumstances. Last time he was pretty sick, they were in contact far more often, and my father didn't seem to be that worried when I talked to him, just kind of tired. I'll call again tomorrow.
Hmm...
I'm about half-way through Undertow by Elizabeth Bear. It's a very good book and I am enjoying the read. She created an interesting culture of frog-ish aliens. They use "se" as a gender-neutral third person pronoun. I get inordinately linguistically excited (hi, it is adverb day in Keffy land) because SE is a Finnish third person gender-neutral pronoun. It doesn't throw me out of the English text at all, which proves (to me, anyway) that English ought to do some vocab borrowing and steal it from Finnish. Added benefits include: why the hell would English have a pronoun that came from a non-IE language???
I also keep reading the word "omelite" and thinking "omelette". Yeah. Not really, uh, the same thing, there, Kef.
Oh, good! She posted it!
HOORAY, for kaerfel - she has an agent!
I'm so happy, I broke out the bug-eyed Cy icon again.
*gasp*
I just got a wonderful idea! And by wonderful, I mean "impulsive and slightly stupid."
So here I go!
EDIT:
Well, that would be the case except that our amazing department chair is willing to take some time out of his schedule each week to go over advanced quantum mechanics topics. You know, graduate school type stuff. So there's no way that I could possibly let that go by. It's not even a class, either, I'm doing this for fun. QED, QFT... particles/antiparticles... black holes, black hole evaporation, Feynman diagrams, quantum computing, maybe...
So basically all the reasons I even like physics in a delightful once-a-week informal lecture... thing. ^___^
My grandfather is ill. However, even though my mother sent me an exceedingly dire email, it seems that he's doing more or less okay given the circumstances. Last time he was pretty sick, they were in contact far more often, and my father didn't seem to be that worried when I talked to him, just kind of tired. I'll call again tomorrow.
Hmm...
I'm about half-way through Undertow by Elizabeth Bear. It's a very good book and I am enjoying the read. She created an interesting culture of frog-ish aliens. They use "se" as a gender-neutral third person pronoun. I get inordinately linguistically excited (hi, it is adverb day in Keffy land) because SE is a Finnish third person gender-neutral pronoun. It doesn't throw me out of the English text at all, which proves (to me, anyway) that English ought to do some vocab borrowing and steal it from Finnish. Added benefits include: why the hell would English have a pronoun that came from a non-IE language???
I also keep reading the word "omelite" and thinking "omelette". Yeah. Not really, uh, the same thing, there, Kef.
Oh, good! She posted it!
HOORAY, for kaerfel - she has an agent!
I'm so happy, I broke out the bug-eyed Cy icon again.
*gasp*
I just got a wonderful idea! And by wonderful, I mean "impulsive and slightly stupid."
So here I go!
EDIT: