Refraction

I miss work, a little bit. But not that much. In any case, I was sent for extra training today, which I think sucks, since I’m on a leave of absence. On the other hand, I will get paid four hours for sitting there three hours (heh, they screwed up booking th room) and doing nothing, so that’s also good.

Anyway, I figure I’d dedicate this post to my shoes, since I work in a shoe store, after all.
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Note to self: Next time, phone before you get all worked up about something.

I’m due to be arriving at the hospital in um, exactly nine hours. That means I have three hours left to eat my last meal (for a month-ish), and six hours left to drink clear fluids. I dropped by a supermarket today to pick up some of those meal replacement shakes (chocolate and strawberry :biggrin:), a sippy cup, and a water bottle.

I still don’t think the severity of this has quite sunk in yet. Well, I suppose it will afterwards, when I have tubes coming out of me and stuff :biggrin:

If anybody is curious about what a human chipmunk looks like, or is merely bored, I’ll be at the campus hospital, and I hope I’ll be awake by afternoon-ish.

I’ll be back soon :happy:

We’re all sufficiently removed from exams that it’s okay to point out the funny parts, eh?

French Lit: Nothing that funny, or weird. We were waiting for exam time to roll around, when two prof-looking guys approach the glass doors. “Oh, there’s our prof,” says one of the girls. “Which one is he?” “The bald one,” I say bluntly. For some reason, this causes them to dissolve in giggles. I don’t get it. :confused:

Nothing else of note happened in exams until we hit organic chem. Well, people’s cell phones kept going off during the French exam, and one girl had a very obnoxious ringtune. Her half-hearted attempts to stifle it were met by a “Could you turn that thing off?” from the invigilator and a brusque “use both hands” from the course coordinator.

Prof: “We haven’t put out enough exams yet. If you can’t find a paper, come to the front and we’ll make this row into an exam row.”
[shuffling ensues]
Prof: “There should be one extra paper somewhere. I know how many we put out, and I know how to count. [nervous twittering from students] Unless we’ve got an extra person in here.”
[pause, students file into the extra row]
Prof: “This is CHEM 204, not CHEM 123, that’s on the other side of the building.”
[The sound of a chair being pushed back. Some hapless first-year has stumbled into the wrong exam. We all applaud him for… I’m not sure what we applaud him for, but we do it anyway.]

Oh man, those crazy first-year students. XD You have to wonder: Didn’t he realize everyone else was studying something different? Didn’t he realize something was weird when he didn’t recognize a single person there?

MY CDs ARE HERE!!!

My fully legal, copy-protected CDs are HERE!

With liner notes!

And photos!

And thank-yous!

And lyrics!

(And an extra little toy car which I’ve lost.)

And the limited edition BEST CD with a bonus disc!

SQUEE! :kawaii:

I’ve got one exam–organic chem left. Knowing me and my history with that course, and given the fact I’ve not really been studying for it, I need to cram the entire course in eight hours. Can you say, OW?!

At least I’ll be doing it to my CORE OF SOUL CDs. 😀

I am having second, third, fourth, and possibly fifth thoughts about accepting that Explore bursary.

I’m really good at talking myself out of things. I’m not so good at talking myself into them.

And in the meantime, I’ve really got to … study for something.

//edit @ 6pm, the next day: Got the medical all-clear (“you just might want to let your orthodontist know you won’t know be in town for a month, though”). I’m heading to Chicoutimi! Now, budgeting! This means the rest of my CDs will have to wait even longer. >_>;;

My CDs still haven’t come yet. How long could they possibly be held at Customs (which is where I assume the wait is)? They’re just CDs! Nothing even remotely contraband! :devil:

I hear a “Noooo!” from the other room–my brother’s watching the Canucks game–and I wander in to see what’s the matter, confidently predicting that the score is 7-0 for Avalanche, with Joe Sakic and Patrick Roy scoring hat tricks.

“Um, Roy’s not even playing.”

“He’s NOT?! Where’s he playing now?”

“He retired. Go look it up.”

Yep. It’s a sad world, really.

Although not quite as sad as the Canucks on Thursday. I hadn’t sat down and watched a hockey game from (near-) beginning to end in quite some time, but for this one, I had to. A loss like that kinda ruins the rest of your day. :depressed:

Je viens de recevoir un email auquel je tiens depuis plusieurs semaines:

You are the recipient of a 5-week Explore bursary to study French for
the Summer Session (July 2 to August 5) at l’école de langue française
et de culture québécoise de l’université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

😯

C’est vrai, Chicoutimi n’est pas mon premier choix… mais en tout cas, cette programme d’immersion m’intéresse beaucoup…! J’espère que mes parents me permettent d’y aller.

Ca fait vraiment longtemps que je ne suis pas partie en vacances. … :kawaii:

How many ways can you spell “owned by another organic chem midterm”?

I’ve got my list here:

1. owned by another organic chem midterm
2. pwned by another organic chem midterm
3. 0wned by another organic chem midterm
4. |owned by another organic chem midterm
5. poned (Ed note: Hey, some people say it that way) by an organic chem midterm
6. pwn3d by another organic chem midterm
7. own3d by another organic chem midterm
8. pwnd by another organic chem midterm
9. |ownd by another organic chem midterm
10. PWNED!!!!! by another organic chem midterm

Yeah, I think that’s enough for now.

So thanks to everyone for all the encouragement and helpful comments in the last entry. Even though things have settled down, I’m still debating transferring out. However, I’ll take some of your excellent advice and wait until exams are over.

To continue the drama that is my life in the chemistry laboratory…
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I take back many of the bad things I said about economics. It seems it has its uses after all.

I spent an hour or two on the weekend reading Freakonomics. Definitely a fun read and there’s absolutely nothing about economics in there, which is the fun part. Okay, well, to be honest I would know nothing about anything in there that’s even kind of linked to economics. They say ignorance is bliss. :biggrin:

That saying, of course, is completely invalid when it comes to midterms. I got my inorganic chem midterm back this morning, and well… let’s just say I haven’t seen this much scaling since first-year physics. No, I take that back. I haven’t seen this much scaling since Math HL. My mark went up by nearly thirty percent. (To let you have an idea of how bad it was, the raw average was a whopping 42%. Go us.) It was so bad they had to scale us twice – first by making the midterm out of eight fewer marks, and then when that still wasn’t enough, by boosting everyone’s scores by another ten percent. And this got the class average up to about 60.