wild appetite
lately my appetite has been ferocious and i can't calm it down. At work I had a lot of noodles and lentil soup. Then I came home and tried to get my mind off dinner for a while. Then I had beef and potatoes and beans. Then some sweets. Two very large meals and a desert. I have been having a smaller breakfast lately. Is that the problem? Tomorrow I'll try to incorporate some fruit and stuff... see if that lowers my appetite later. Intevesting.
I haven't updated all this time. Well the quarter came to an end. I am still getting used to the new lingo. For instance, we don't take classes, no you say: we write a class. So I wrote three classes. No one says grades anymore either, it's marks. And my marks were all passing. The system had me a bit confused. The GPA system in portland is on a different scale, A grades are right censored, i.e. a GPA of 4.0 means you got 90% or higher in every class. Here, your mark represents the GPA contribution exactly, so 4.0 is 100% and 3.5 or thereabouts is a minimal A. By this standard, I "got As" in my classes, but the other thing about grad school is you don't pass the class unless you get a B or higher. And lots of students don't pass certain classes and have to retake them. I'm glad this wasn't the case. In fact, the supposed easiest class ended up being the hardest for me.
Next term, I'm dedicated to developing some better study habits. I found myself constantly feeling overworked and overwhelmed by the stuff that came at me. In retrospect, it wasn't that much. Additionally, I am dedicated to going to the gym 3x weekly. I think I feel better with exercise and these past weeks I've been especially lethargic which is finally taking it's toll on my level of energy. OH! Also I'm gonna try to perfect my sleeping structure. I dunno if I can get some ear plugs or something. But we live right by a busy road with busses and trucks that downshift or upshift for the hills. Also my downstairs roommate would have the Indian name: Types With A Passion (because I can hear him through the air vents!).
So these things are at hand.
Also I haven't mentioned that I bungled my RA work badly. My advisor turned out to be a manifestation of Snape ala Sorcerer's Stone (which I coincidentally read this quarter). The metaphor carries well: while not the bad guy, carries contention and prejudice. Or at least I feel it. Anyway, she demanded that I make up for lost hours by working another 40 hours after school ended. Not only that, but it's the most menial and terrible work imaginable. It's QA/QC and data entry. I have entered the most devilishly detailed information... right now, we have these day to day logs of senior citizens that I'm entering. It's terrible, we're talking about down to the 10 minutes where they were, whether someone near-by was smoking, if their windows were open. I practically went comatose today.
So "40 was my sentence" and tomorrow is my LASSSST DAAAY THEEEERE!!! I'm so excited I could... uh oh.
Also, major lolz on this one: outside my office is this box. No let me begin by saying that the building that I work in is swank. It's definitely built in the last 5 years. All the offices are security clearance. Hallways have modern carpet with nice lighting. And there are various clinics and nice things all throughout the bldg. So outside this one room is this disheveled little metal box. And... well actually I took a picture. This is what it says:
http://flickr.com/photos/48052019@N00/3101842868/
LOLcifer!!
I haven't updated all this time. Well the quarter came to an end. I am still getting used to the new lingo. For instance, we don't take classes, no you say: we write a class. So I wrote three classes. No one says grades anymore either, it's marks. And my marks were all passing. The system had me a bit confused. The GPA system in portland is on a different scale, A grades are right censored, i.e. a GPA of 4.0 means you got 90% or higher in every class. Here, your mark represents the GPA contribution exactly, so 4.0 is 100% and 3.5 or thereabouts is a minimal A. By this standard, I "got As" in my classes, but the other thing about grad school is you don't pass the class unless you get a B or higher. And lots of students don't pass certain classes and have to retake them. I'm glad this wasn't the case. In fact, the supposed easiest class ended up being the hardest for me.
Next term, I'm dedicated to developing some better study habits. I found myself constantly feeling overworked and overwhelmed by the stuff that came at me. In retrospect, it wasn't that much. Additionally, I am dedicated to going to the gym 3x weekly. I think I feel better with exercise and these past weeks I've been especially lethargic which is finally taking it's toll on my level of energy. OH! Also I'm gonna try to perfect my sleeping structure. I dunno if I can get some ear plugs or something. But we live right by a busy road with busses and trucks that downshift or upshift for the hills. Also my downstairs roommate would have the Indian name: Types With A Passion (because I can hear him through the air vents!).
So these things are at hand.
Also I haven't mentioned that I bungled my RA work badly. My advisor turned out to be a manifestation of Snape ala Sorcerer's Stone (which I coincidentally read this quarter). The metaphor carries well: while not the bad guy, carries contention and prejudice. Or at least I feel it. Anyway, she demanded that I make up for lost hours by working another 40 hours after school ended. Not only that, but it's the most menial and terrible work imaginable. It's QA/QC and data entry. I have entered the most devilishly detailed information... right now, we have these day to day logs of senior citizens that I'm entering. It's terrible, we're talking about down to the 10 minutes where they were, whether someone near-by was smoking, if their windows were open. I practically went comatose today.
So "40 was my sentence" and tomorrow is my LASSSST DAAAY THEEEERE!!! I'm so excited I could... uh oh.
Also, major lolz on this one: outside my office is this box. No let me begin by saying that the building that I work in is swank. It's definitely built in the last 5 years. All the offices are security clearance. Hallways have modern carpet with nice lighting. And there are various clinics and nice things all throughout the bldg. So outside this one room is this disheveled little metal box. And... well actually I took a picture. This is what it says:
http://flickr.com/photos/48052019@N00/3101842868/
LOLcifer!!