Mar Talk
Oh man what a birthday...
Accidentally dozed off while doing hw the night before .. I was like half way done and all
So I wake up at like 7:30AM and I'm surrounded by papers .. I think for a few seconds about how odd that is, until I realized I'm like that for a reason and that I've an hour and a half to finish that hw and go to class.
Didn't happen. Got stuck on a particularly confusing question. Turned it in at office hours later. What's funny is how this is totally the first time I've missed a class this quarter. So many people have copied my notes for that class. Someone even texted me today, asking to borrow my notes. Boy will they be disappointed. I'm sure one of those many folks who owe me favors will lend me their notes. Also that we probably didn't do anything particularly numerical that day.
let's see..
oh, my macbook's battery is expanding like crazy. It's all puffed up and messing up my trackpad and whatnot now. Makes it a little hard to type sometimes. I should get it exchanged some time, but I don't feel like losing close to a hundred bucks for that. Not when it's still working mostly just fine. I guess my concern is mostly how Apple's discontinuing the white macbooks and will probably subsequently stop making the batteries for them too.
Marathoned some Japanese hw .. missed most of class .. partially because my hat flew off while biking, partially because of some dude who just wouldn't get off his phone while driving, and partially because of some jerks walking in the bike lanes.
made fettuccine alfredo for dinner. It was delicious. Also enjoyed a bowl of cereal.
Then my HA showed up with a hallmate who said that some other hallmates had arrived at the pub and were waiting for me. I was still a bit apprehensive about the whole thing. Part of me felt like I'd be breaking a whole bunch of personal rules, and the other part was just straight up curious. I mean, I'm the only one in my hall who has never even tried anything alcoholic before. I don't know how it feels, tastes, or even what they're called.
We took the shuttle over and found a table upon arrival. Sat about for a few minutes waiting for people to arrive and get situated. By then, it was about 6:30 and apparently happy hour ends at 7pm, so everyone got in line.
I had no idea what was going on, and grew even more confused when my H.A. announced to the barkeep that it was my birthday and she picked up this HUGE mug thing out of the fridge. All I could think of was ".. can I go back?" then wound up walking back to the table with this huge thing of raspberry cider. It was like the size of their pitcher, only meant for one person. Spent the next five minutes staring at it after a tentative sniff.
So I took a sip and promptly decided that it tasted kind of bad. It was like lingonberry juice, but carbonated and not sweet. Well, at least it smelled nice and was a pleasant pinkish tan color. At that point, my thoughts were "People pay for this stuff?"
I pulled out a rubik's cube because I was feeling a bit restless and wanted something to fiddle with. Which began a series of experiments. They timed my solving it after having had only that one sip. It came out to a sort of slow 1:20.48
waited for another hallmate to arrive. He showed up and immediately got this really dark looking beer right before happy hour was up.
halfway through the mug thing, I could feel my muscle memory slipping a bit. Took a quick note of everything that felt off. Slight tingle in the fingertips, precision of movement was off a bit when going quickly, and a very slight haze over the mind (similar to when only having had four hours of sleep). Got timed again for cubing and got a slightly better 1:11.98 ... I told them that they should have taken an average of a few if they wanted more accurate data. They told me I was making too much sense.
Finished the huge mug thing and took another note of how everything felt. Solved the cube again, and this time I dropped it. I rarely ever drop the cube when solving two handed. It was during the fasted algorithm and all, but still. I could focus on it just fine, but I knew that my hand movements were off. Occasionally applying slightly too much force to a turn, and occasionally applying too little. The slight haze had grown to what I can only equate to having not slept for two days. Meaning I could feel that I was a bit dizzy, but I could force myself to focus on things pretty easily. Cube time was 1:27.11
Then someone came by to pick up glasses and empty sundries. He saw the cube and we excitedly chatted about speed cubing for a bit. Apparently my cube moves really well.. hallmates wanted us to race, but we both declined. I knew that I hadn't learned enough F2L to compete at all, and he said he hadn't solved a cube in ages.
I took note of how well I could walk at this point. Had a straight walk, but I felt like that was more of a marching band habit kicking in. No feeling of the world whizzing by or anything else commonly spoken of.
Hallmates got some of these delicious carne asada curly fries to be shared amongst us. Those were nice.
Apparently I was making too much sense and looked completely the same as I usually would, along with able to move too quickly (I guess they couldn't tell my own muscle memory quirks as well as I could). Maybe I just enjoy too many skill toys, and that's why I know my hands so well.
And that's how I wound up with a rather tall glass of beer in front of me. Apparently it was one of their favorites in taste. My H.A. had a different one out in front of her. It smelled horrid to me. Wound up tasting both of them and absolutely disliked both of them. It was like bitter, fizzy, liquid grains. It just smelled old to me.
Contrary to popular belief, I did not grow to like any of it. It tasted horrible the whole way through. I don't know why it became popular. I figured it must be an acquired taste. Like how I grew to like kimchi. Maybe it applies to anything fermented for a while. Only I have no intentions of trying beer again. At least with kimchi I enjoyed the taste when mild at first and grew to like the full taste of it.
Didn't time the cube again. That point, yeah I felt dizzy. But was still entirely coherent and non-babbly or anything that was expected of me. I caused them to lose a bet apparently. They were expecting me to get giggly or something. It topped out at the two days of having not slept point .. which I'm sadly far more used to than I'd like to be.
I don't get why people drink to reach that state of dizziness. It's not fun to me - I was mostly thinking about how much it slowed down my movements. My reaction times were still pretty good - could catch things that were being knocked over and all. I guess everyone reacts differently and that most folks enjoy how they react.
It was an interesting learning experience. I really enjoyed my tiny, impromptu birthday celebration at that little table. Certainly made me feel happy and appreciated.
My abilities as a natural insomniac mostly dulled things out apparently and just made me naturally good at holding down a drink. In conclusion: I know how I react to these things now, and much to my relief it's rather well. I have no intentions of drinking or partaking in anything containing alcohol though. I don't enjoy the taste nor the feeling at all whatsoever.
Afterwards, we all walked back to the hall together. Had a bunch of interesting conversations about mammoths, cool things in Thailand, and how I'm not too big of a fan of skateboarding because I'm used to having brakes.
spoke to some folks at the hall for a moment, called mom (she laughed at how I didn't like the taste and said that I should have tried more things.. so mom like), had some snacks, then went to bed. Oh, drank a bunch of water first.
I did wake up with an annoying headache this morning -.-
yeah, reaffirmed: Interesting experience. No intentions of ever doing it again. Definitely far better than my 20th birthday, which was spent doing econ hw the whole time.
Some 21 year old I am.
I would like to get more curly fries from there some time. Those were great.
Zot!
-Mar Out
Accidentally dozed off while doing hw the night before .. I was like half way done and all
So I wake up at like 7:30AM and I'm surrounded by papers .. I think for a few seconds about how odd that is, until I realized I'm like that for a reason and that I've an hour and a half to finish that hw and go to class.
Didn't happen. Got stuck on a particularly confusing question. Turned it in at office hours later. What's funny is how this is totally the first time I've missed a class this quarter. So many people have copied my notes for that class. Someone even texted me today, asking to borrow my notes. Boy will they be disappointed. I'm sure one of those many folks who owe me favors will lend me their notes. Also that we probably didn't do anything particularly numerical that day.
let's see..
oh, my macbook's battery is expanding like crazy. It's all puffed up and messing up my trackpad and whatnot now. Makes it a little hard to type sometimes. I should get it exchanged some time, but I don't feel like losing close to a hundred bucks for that. Not when it's still working mostly just fine. I guess my concern is mostly how Apple's discontinuing the white macbooks and will probably subsequently stop making the batteries for them too.
Marathoned some Japanese hw .. missed most of class .. partially because my hat flew off while biking, partially because of some dude who just wouldn't get off his phone while driving, and partially because of some jerks walking in the bike lanes.
made fettuccine alfredo for dinner. It was delicious. Also enjoyed a bowl of cereal.
Then my HA showed up with a hallmate who said that some other hallmates had arrived at the pub and were waiting for me. I was still a bit apprehensive about the whole thing. Part of me felt like I'd be breaking a whole bunch of personal rules, and the other part was just straight up curious. I mean, I'm the only one in my hall who has never even tried anything alcoholic before. I don't know how it feels, tastes, or even what they're called.
We took the shuttle over and found a table upon arrival. Sat about for a few minutes waiting for people to arrive and get situated. By then, it was about 6:30 and apparently happy hour ends at 7pm, so everyone got in line.
I had no idea what was going on, and grew even more confused when my H.A. announced to the barkeep that it was my birthday and she picked up this HUGE mug thing out of the fridge. All I could think of was ".. can I go back?" then wound up walking back to the table with this huge thing of raspberry cider. It was like the size of their pitcher, only meant for one person. Spent the next five minutes staring at it after a tentative sniff.
So I took a sip and promptly decided that it tasted kind of bad. It was like lingonberry juice, but carbonated and not sweet. Well, at least it smelled nice and was a pleasant pinkish tan color. At that point, my thoughts were "People pay for this stuff?"
I pulled out a rubik's cube because I was feeling a bit restless and wanted something to fiddle with. Which began a series of experiments. They timed my solving it after having had only that one sip. It came out to a sort of slow 1:20.48
waited for another hallmate to arrive. He showed up and immediately got this really dark looking beer right before happy hour was up.
halfway through the mug thing, I could feel my muscle memory slipping a bit. Took a quick note of everything that felt off. Slight tingle in the fingertips, precision of movement was off a bit when going quickly, and a very slight haze over the mind (similar to when only having had four hours of sleep). Got timed again for cubing and got a slightly better 1:11.98 ... I told them that they should have taken an average of a few if they wanted more accurate data. They told me I was making too much sense.
Finished the huge mug thing and took another note of how everything felt. Solved the cube again, and this time I dropped it. I rarely ever drop the cube when solving two handed. It was during the fasted algorithm and all, but still. I could focus on it just fine, but I knew that my hand movements were off. Occasionally applying slightly too much force to a turn, and occasionally applying too little. The slight haze had grown to what I can only equate to having not slept for two days. Meaning I could feel that I was a bit dizzy, but I could force myself to focus on things pretty easily. Cube time was 1:27.11
Then someone came by to pick up glasses and empty sundries. He saw the cube and we excitedly chatted about speed cubing for a bit. Apparently my cube moves really well.. hallmates wanted us to race, but we both declined. I knew that I hadn't learned enough F2L to compete at all, and he said he hadn't solved a cube in ages.
I took note of how well I could walk at this point. Had a straight walk, but I felt like that was more of a marching band habit kicking in. No feeling of the world whizzing by or anything else commonly spoken of.
Hallmates got some of these delicious carne asada curly fries to be shared amongst us. Those were nice.
Apparently I was making too much sense and looked completely the same as I usually would, along with able to move too quickly (I guess they couldn't tell my own muscle memory quirks as well as I could). Maybe I just enjoy too many skill toys, and that's why I know my hands so well.
And that's how I wound up with a rather tall glass of beer in front of me. Apparently it was one of their favorites in taste. My H.A. had a different one out in front of her. It smelled horrid to me. Wound up tasting both of them and absolutely disliked both of them. It was like bitter, fizzy, liquid grains. It just smelled old to me.
Contrary to popular belief, I did not grow to like any of it. It tasted horrible the whole way through. I don't know why it became popular. I figured it must be an acquired taste. Like how I grew to like kimchi. Maybe it applies to anything fermented for a while. Only I have no intentions of trying beer again. At least with kimchi I enjoyed the taste when mild at first and grew to like the full taste of it.
Didn't time the cube again. That point, yeah I felt dizzy. But was still entirely coherent and non-babbly or anything that was expected of me. I caused them to lose a bet apparently. They were expecting me to get giggly or something. It topped out at the two days of having not slept point .. which I'm sadly far more used to than I'd like to be.
I don't get why people drink to reach that state of dizziness. It's not fun to me - I was mostly thinking about how much it slowed down my movements. My reaction times were still pretty good - could catch things that were being knocked over and all. I guess everyone reacts differently and that most folks enjoy how they react.
It was an interesting learning experience. I really enjoyed my tiny, impromptu birthday celebration at that little table. Certainly made me feel happy and appreciated.
My abilities as a natural insomniac mostly dulled things out apparently and just made me naturally good at holding down a drink. In conclusion: I know how I react to these things now, and much to my relief it's rather well. I have no intentions of drinking or partaking in anything containing alcohol though. I don't enjoy the taste nor the feeling at all whatsoever.
Afterwards, we all walked back to the hall together. Had a bunch of interesting conversations about mammoths, cool things in Thailand, and how I'm not too big of a fan of skateboarding because I'm used to having brakes.
spoke to some folks at the hall for a moment, called mom (she laughed at how I didn't like the taste and said that I should have tried more things.. so mom like), had some snacks, then went to bed. Oh, drank a bunch of water first.
I did wake up with an annoying headache this morning -.-
yeah, reaffirmed: Interesting experience. No intentions of ever doing it again. Definitely far better than my 20th birthday, which was spent doing econ hw the whole time.
Some 21 year old I am.
I would like to get more curly fries from there some time. Those were great.
Zot!
-Mar Out