I ache...
Yesterday we finished the green roofs.
After freaking out at some of the Computer Center senior staff ("Can you believe it? I actually have classes that occaisionally, actually require my attention and work? No, I am not on duty today! Talk to some one who is.") I finished my lab reports and went to Water Resources.
In water resources, I told the Professor that we had a guest speaker in the class I'm taking that conflicts with the Water lab, so I actually need to go to it. And he pretty much told me "no." "I'm lecturing today, because the lab apparatus isn't working, so you're not actually doing a lab, so... I don't think you should leave." Which pisses me off to no end because I've been regaled with tales of last year when Armir got to leave early every class because he had a conflict. And Cataldo won't let me go early on the occaisional weeks when I ask to because something important is going on in the other class. I mean, it doesn't happen often. As it is, I have to leave next week because we have a presentation in the other class... And for that one, I will just walk out...
The above mentioned "other class" is the experimental design class. I met Katie and Mable at 3:30 yesterday, after they left the class with the guest speaker, and we headed up to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and then out to West New York, NJ. (Yeah, that's a confising address, isn't it?) Out to our advisor's office, because the planting medium had been delivered, and it was time to finish the construction of the green roofs. So, frst we cut out the roof liners from one 10'x10' sheet of it, and cut slits in the corners to fit them into the boxes and up the sides. Then, they got stapled into place. Next came the drainage layer, which also had to be cut to size. Then the planting medium. The instructions we were given said to pour it in dry, then wet it and compress the medium. The reccommendation was to just step on it to compress it. So, we hade three boxes, three girls, and mud to stomp on. The soil compressed by almost half. We were supposed to vary the depths of the madium for our experiment, so three depths: 1", 3", and 6". What we ended up with was 1", 2.5", and 4". We decided that was good enough, because they were really heavy... Then the plant mats went on top. Then the clean up... We left school at 3:30. Started working around 5:00. Got on the bus to go home at 8:30... Oh, and Katie decided she wanted to make a smaller scale "demo" green roof for our presentation. This required bringing some of the (heavy) material to her home in Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. She bribed me with homemade Italian leftovers, and a carride to where evere I was going to spend the night... So, onto the bus, onto the subway went the heavy demo-building materials, Fort Hamilton-bound... Happily, we were picked up from the subway station in Brooklyn, so we didn't have to walk to her house.
Got to meet her mom (met her dad the day we bought the lumber), and homemade Italian leftovers was really good chicken and eggplant parmesean, chosen over the option of polenta with olive oil and capers. I was a tough choice, actually... Her mom decide I shoul dbe invited over for "real" dinner some night, not just for leftovers. That will probably be a Sunday sometime...
Then Katie drove me to Chris' home, because I don't know how to get to my place from her place...
So, green roofs are built now, which means nothing to do this weekend for experimental design. And Tavern is full. Argh. Oh, well, I still have to do the structural design for the Museum, so I guess that's is the plan for this weekend instead.
My back and legs hurt from much heavy lifting and running around yesterday
I got my lease renewal in the mail
I got a juror questionaire in the mail
I need to study for the FE exam
I need to make up my part of our presentation for experimental ("what we've done so far, and what we still have to do")
I need to figure out logistics for getting to Cornell the weekend of the 12th (transportation, timing, hotel/motel reservations)
I just want this semester to be over....
After freaking out at some of the Computer Center senior staff ("Can you believe it? I actually have classes that occaisionally, actually require my attention and work? No, I am not on duty today! Talk to some one who is.") I finished my lab reports and went to Water Resources.
In water resources, I told the Professor that we had a guest speaker in the class I'm taking that conflicts with the Water lab, so I actually need to go to it. And he pretty much told me "no." "I'm lecturing today, because the lab apparatus isn't working, so you're not actually doing a lab, so... I don't think you should leave." Which pisses me off to no end because I've been regaled with tales of last year when Armir got to leave early every class because he had a conflict. And Cataldo won't let me go early on the occaisional weeks when I ask to because something important is going on in the other class. I mean, it doesn't happen often. As it is, I have to leave next week because we have a presentation in the other class... And for that one, I will just walk out...
The above mentioned "other class" is the experimental design class. I met Katie and Mable at 3:30 yesterday, after they left the class with the guest speaker, and we headed up to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and then out to West New York, NJ. (Yeah, that's a confising address, isn't it?) Out to our advisor's office, because the planting medium had been delivered, and it was time to finish the construction of the green roofs. So, frst we cut out the roof liners from one 10'x10' sheet of it, and cut slits in the corners to fit them into the boxes and up the sides. Then, they got stapled into place. Next came the drainage layer, which also had to be cut to size. Then the planting medium. The instructions we were given said to pour it in dry, then wet it and compress the medium. The reccommendation was to just step on it to compress it. So, we hade three boxes, three girls, and mud to stomp on. The soil compressed by almost half. We were supposed to vary the depths of the madium for our experiment, so three depths: 1", 3", and 6". What we ended up with was 1", 2.5", and 4". We decided that was good enough, because they were really heavy... Then the plant mats went on top. Then the clean up... We left school at 3:30. Started working around 5:00. Got on the bus to go home at 8:30... Oh, and Katie decided she wanted to make a smaller scale "demo" green roof for our presentation. This required bringing some of the (heavy) material to her home in Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. She bribed me with homemade Italian leftovers, and a carride to where evere I was going to spend the night... So, onto the bus, onto the subway went the heavy demo-building materials, Fort Hamilton-bound... Happily, we were picked up from the subway station in Brooklyn, so we didn't have to walk to her house.
Got to meet her mom (met her dad the day we bought the lumber), and homemade Italian leftovers was really good chicken and eggplant parmesean, chosen over the option of polenta with olive oil and capers. I was a tough choice, actually... Her mom decide I shoul dbe invited over for "real" dinner some night, not just for leftovers. That will probably be a Sunday sometime...
Then Katie drove me to Chris' home, because I don't know how to get to my place from her place...
So, green roofs are built now, which means nothing to do this weekend for experimental design. And Tavern is full. Argh. Oh, well, I still have to do the structural design for the Museum, so I guess that's is the plan for this weekend instead.
My back and legs hurt from much heavy lifting and running around yesterday
I got my lease renewal in the mail
I got a juror questionaire in the mail
I need to study for the FE exam
I need to make up my part of our presentation for experimental ("what we've done so far, and what we still have to do")
I need to figure out logistics for getting to Cornell the weekend of the 12th (transportation, timing, hotel/motel reservations)
I just want this semester to be over....