some days, i love my "job".  how can i not be happy when i get to order books i want with other people's money?  okay, i don't get to keep the books later, but i get to order them and read them.  it's a beautiful thing.  besides, scientific books are expensive; i can't afford to buy them on my own.  ($55 bucks for a paperback?  not even i am that ( Read more... )

what am i still doing at work?  and dude, i totally missed my chance to go grocery shopping.  crap.  oh well, i guess this is what happens when i get into a groove while i'm working.  plus, i took an hour break to go get poutine with J.  still, i haven't stayed this late in a long time.  oh, nuts, i'm gonna miss the first half of House.  but i did ( Read more... )

example question from the term test i'm giving my students next week:

You have inserted an object into a Word document.  In order to edit it, you:

1. double-click the object and edit it using the Word editor.
   
2. double-click the object and edit it using the application you used to create it.
   
3. look at me like I’m insane because you can’t edit an object ( Read more... )

teaching makes me feel both really smart and really stupid. the students think that i know so much more than they do, and it makes me feel smart. then someone asks a question i don't know (or i forget something), and i feel stupid. and yet, it's all just so much perception and comparison. sure, i may know more than they do out there in that ( Read more... )

stayed up too late Tuesday night...of course. so i slept in on Wednesday...whatever. got work done anyway, though there was a hiccup with my lecture for today. when i went to open the file of the lecture notes so i could copy them over to PowerPoint, i discovered that i hadn't finished formatting them like i thought. oops. managed to get the ( Read more... )

despite being a little short on sleep, i feel much better today. spent last night vegging in front of the TV: FullMetal Alchemist, Bones, MythBusters, and InuYasha. lots of IY. i finally finished my shawl. it may not be quite as wide as i'd like, but i couldn't tell until i bound off the edge. i decided that a couple extra inches wasn't worth ( Read more... )

had a pretty good weekend. had some fun, relaxed a little, and was actually a little productive. go me ( Read more... )

so, i didn't get nearly as much done this weekend as i wanted. but i really don't mind. i did a load of laundry. thought that was going to be my last one, but then i remember that i had decided to do my sweaters and blouses seperately. oh well. had to buy candy and chips at school today so that i could have quarters for that load. you know, ( Read more... )

i was done! i was done! then i got the bright idea while i was in the shower (stupid thought stimulationg shower) that i should add information about Personal Area Networks in the networks section of the lecture. oh, and mention LAN parties too. heehee. : ) but i was done! gah! okay, sleep now.

got to bed on time last night, but i still had trouble getting up. wanted to sleep longer! once i got into school, though, i was doing fine. had a pretty good day. i even got a new set of simulations (forty of them!) running on the server. it wasn't until i was leaving to go to the gym that i realized i had forgotten to make my lecture slides ( Read more... )