And life continues….

And I’m too lazy to post in here as often as I should. Of course that’s partly because my life’s not very exciting to describe – lots and lots of homework. But such is what I signed up for.

I did go climbing last weekend for a day, which was very nice. Unfortunately I have about twice as much work to do now, so I doubt that will happen again. And I found out I was soft and that it has been a really, really long time since I last climbed trad. Goal for the summer: whip myself back into trad climbing shape in the Gunks. We’ll see how that works out. I am going to a beginning Judo class now which is nice. I need to stop being lazy and stay later for the intermediate class also, though. The problem is that Judo is Monday and Wednesday nights and all my classes (and hence homework due dates) are Tuesday and Thursday. Not the best timing.

I dropped some film off for developing today, so we’ll see how the experiments with the camera went. Could I find the right focal length to not totally screw my exposures up?

I’m still going to research group meetings and (after three weeks….) finally finished flagging a night’s worth of data yesterday.  Now it’s time to start the next night – yea!

It’s started….

I have two (mostly) completed problem sets that are due today – electrodynamics and chemistry quantum. Now it’s time to turn around and start again for next week, but I’ll have radio astronomy and possibly galactic dynamics in addition. At least those two will be more interesting. EM is going to be a killer. We’ve started with relativity and will be using that to derive Maxwell’s equations eventually. This homework set involved way too much understanding of tensor notation and manipulation. Not fun.

Sunday was a homework marathon, but I actually went climbing on Saturday. I doubt I’ll manage that again this semester, but it was fun. It was a beginner’s climbing trip run by the outdoor club here at Cornell to a relatively close area with some top roping. Not the most exciting climbing in the world, but I got to meet some awesome people who I can hopefully climb with in the future. And some of them believe in day trips to the Gunks, which I could be very interested in. The climbing area overlooked lock 17 of the Erie Canal and I watched a giant cruise ship go through the lock. It was impressive.

We stopped for dinner at this diner/convenience store on the highway on the way home and it was an experience. The food took a while to come and came out piecemeal. We did start timing though and were pretty sure that they must have been parallel processing at least some of the food. I had ordered a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich with swiss cheese. They brought out a sandwich with cheddar and told me they ran out of swiss (my grilled cheese was the last of the ones ordered). Not a big deal – I don’t particularly like warm cheddar but I was starving. Fifteen minutes later a couple of the people I’m sitting with get their grilled chicken sandwiches without any swiss cheese. Makes sense – they ran out. A minute later one of the ladies came out with swiss cheese for the sandwiches because they’d forgotten it. She offered to heat it and put it on the sandwiches. I start cracking up, and I don’t think that she ever realized it was because they had told me they were out of swiss. It just typified the experience. But they had pop rocks and decent coffee which went a long way to making everything better.