Song: "Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby"
May 13th
Grocery day. Oh yeah. Good stuff. Physics in the morning and then lab in the afternoon. Then I came home and went to the gym, and then speedily got ready to go see Cabaret with Shadé. Cabaret was insane, but awesome. Anna and a few other girls from surf camp were in it as dancers and then John was in it as every character ever, which I feel like is what he gets cast as often at Macquarie. Life is a cabaret, old chum.
As always, I had a blast with Shadé. She's one of my favorite Australians for sure and I'm going to miss her dearly when I leave.
I got back home in a reasonable hour and hoped to go out and do something, but yet again that didn't work out. Instead I stayed in and watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? with Sean. It was a good night. Sean fell asleep and went upstairs and I watched Lost. Honestly, I was having such a peaceful time watching the movie that I might have been ok with skipping Lost to finish it.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
I don't care I'll burn out anyhow...
Song: "Incinerate" by Sonic Youth
April 29th
Wednesday morning. I was late to class, but this coupled with the fact that we have a new lecturer meant that we unexpectedly changed rooms this morning. So I went to the first classroom, and then was directed to walk across campus. Fabulous.
Lab went along well. It was our second week of the Zeeman effect lab, and we had essentially finished it in the first week, so we made a little magnetic field calibration curve and we were finished. We hung out around the computer until we felt like leaving. Made some graphs, you know.
I believe this evening was when I decided to take a killer nap after lab before the gym, and overslept. Luckily, there is a later class on Wednesdays so I took that instead. There were about seven other people in the class, so we went on to more advanced things and it was hard. There was a lot of pain, haha I mean "discomfort." Oh Pilates instructor Gayle, I will miss you and your witty ways. "Down with grace, elegance and dignity."
This was also the evening that Gayle taught us what figjam meant. I want to use that all the time.
I got home, briefly thought about working on my physics assignment, and then decided to watch Lost, which was essentially Ben-heavy and therefore ridiculously creepy. Then I slept and it was excellent.
April 29th
Wednesday morning. I was late to class, but this coupled with the fact that we have a new lecturer meant that we unexpectedly changed rooms this morning. So I went to the first classroom, and then was directed to walk across campus. Fabulous.
Lab went along well. It was our second week of the Zeeman effect lab, and we had essentially finished it in the first week, so we made a little magnetic field calibration curve and we were finished. We hung out around the computer until we felt like leaving. Made some graphs, you know.
I believe this evening was when I decided to take a killer nap after lab before the gym, and overslept. Luckily, there is a later class on Wednesdays so I took that instead. There were about seven other people in the class, so we went on to more advanced things and it was hard. There was a lot of pain, haha I mean "discomfort." Oh Pilates instructor Gayle, I will miss you and your witty ways. "Down with grace, elegance and dignity."
This was also the evening that Gayle taught us what figjam meant. I want to use that all the time.
I got home, briefly thought about working on my physics assignment, and then decided to watch Lost, which was essentially Ben-heavy and therefore ridiculously creepy. Then I slept and it was excellent.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The underground drip, it's just like her scuba days
Song: "Stella Was A Diver and She Was Always Down" by Interpol
April 22nd
We made it to Cairns at the end of the last post. Here's where we stayed.
I found it appropriate that the "el" from "Hotel" didn't work.
This morning we had our scuba diving trip. I would just like to say in advance that all I did the night before was stay awake to be on the lookout while Bernie drove; nothing else.
That being said, this entire boat trip I was incredibly seasick.
I've never been an ocean person, but I had a rotten time on our scuba boat. It was terribly choppy water, and I was rocking all sorts of back and forth, and even after taking the seasickness pills, I still felt terrible. However, that did not stop me from scuba diving. At least not the first time.
Scuba diving was actually pretty cool, and once I figured out the breathing it was ok. I got to see Nemo and this giant blue fish that was bigger than Becca. So the first trip, which was about 20 minutes underwater, went well enough. Then I came back onto the boat, felt terrible, barely ate lunch, and then passed out on the top deck of the boat because sleeping was the only thing that made the nausea go away.
I have a few pictures with the underwater camera from dive #1 and my Whitsundays snorkeling, but they're not developed yet. Hopefully soon.
Here's one of Becca and Vilde's pictures:
I can proudly say I did not throw up once, although that might have helped.
The second dive, I got suited up, got in the water, and later was told that I looked blue by several people. Anyway, that didn't stop me from attempting to go diving. About a meter down, I choked on some water, and came up. Our dive instructor Mike asked me if I was ok. I was not ok. I gave up being stubborn and went back on the boat and fell asleep. Luckily, I slept the rest of the trip and didn't have to endure the rocking back and forth when we were anchored, or the infinitely worst rocking back and forth faster while traveling at warp speeds.
When we got back, I wanted to kiss the ground. I restrained myself. Also cool was that we saw Olivia from our Fraser Island trip on our scuba boat. She was really cool, and gave me a much better seasickness pill after my second dive. It really helped so much; I still can't thank her enough. We also met this really cool Irish couple on board who we kept running into in Cairns. Lisa and Barry were a lot of fun, and on the boat, Lisa was really nice to me when I looked blue and like I was going to blow chunks. She didn't have the easiest time with the scuba diving either.
Anyway, finally on land, loving life, we got in the car and head back to Gilligan's. We had a trip meeting with us girls and we plotted out how to best arrange the remaining days of our trip for maximum happiness and fun-having. We drink a little and grab a little food, and I pull a major nerd move and go watch Lost upstairs in the common room. They pushed it back a half hour so I also got to watch Russell Brand's Ponderland with some British girls. Then some Canadian guy (I always find the Canadians) and I watched Lost. I then went to sleep.
April 22nd
We made it to Cairns at the end of the last post. Here's where we stayed.
I found it appropriate that the "el" from "Hotel" didn't work.
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| From Cairns |
This morning we had our scuba diving trip. I would just like to say in advance that all I did the night before was stay awake to be on the lookout while Bernie drove; nothing else.
That being said, this entire boat trip I was incredibly seasick.
I've never been an ocean person, but I had a rotten time on our scuba boat. It was terribly choppy water, and I was rocking all sorts of back and forth, and even after taking the seasickness pills, I still felt terrible. However, that did not stop me from scuba diving. At least not the first time.
Scuba diving was actually pretty cool, and once I figured out the breathing it was ok. I got to see Nemo and this giant blue fish that was bigger than Becca. So the first trip, which was about 20 minutes underwater, went well enough. Then I came back onto the boat, felt terrible, barely ate lunch, and then passed out on the top deck of the boat because sleeping was the only thing that made the nausea go away.
I have a few pictures with the underwater camera from dive #1 and my Whitsundays snorkeling, but they're not developed yet. Hopefully soon.
Here's one of Becca and Vilde's pictures:
I can proudly say I did not throw up once, although that might have helped.
The second dive, I got suited up, got in the water, and later was told that I looked blue by several people. Anyway, that didn't stop me from attempting to go diving. About a meter down, I choked on some water, and came up. Our dive instructor Mike asked me if I was ok. I was not ok. I gave up being stubborn and went back on the boat and fell asleep. Luckily, I slept the rest of the trip and didn't have to endure the rocking back and forth when we were anchored, or the infinitely worst rocking back and forth faster while traveling at warp speeds.
When we got back, I wanted to kiss the ground. I restrained myself. Also cool was that we saw Olivia from our Fraser Island trip on our scuba boat. She was really cool, and gave me a much better seasickness pill after my second dive. It really helped so much; I still can't thank her enough. We also met this really cool Irish couple on board who we kept running into in Cairns. Lisa and Barry were a lot of fun, and on the boat, Lisa was really nice to me when I looked blue and like I was going to blow chunks. She didn't have the easiest time with the scuba diving either.
Anyway, finally on land, loving life, we got in the car and head back to Gilligan's. We had a trip meeting with us girls and we plotted out how to best arrange the remaining days of our trip for maximum happiness and fun-having. We drink a little and grab a little food, and I pull a major nerd move and go watch Lost upstairs in the common room. They pushed it back a half hour so I also got to watch Russell Brand's Ponderland with some British girls. Then some Canadian guy (I always find the Canadians) and I watched Lost. I then went to sleep.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Life just passing, flash right through me...
Song: "Nothing Ever Happened" by Deerhunter
March 25th
Class happened. Then, instead of weekly grocery shopping, I went to the science computer lab to get things done. And by "get things done" I mean, look into spring break.
I then made my way to the optics seminar. It was really fun. The speaker was from the University of Sydney and spoke on the environmental impact of the internet and how optics can, in theory, make this impact smaller. It was an interesting talk. There was also some delicious pizza. Most everything had pineapple and chicken on it, which I love, and there was that delicious passion fruit soda. I met one of the postgrads there and we talked about his research and I tried to tell him all I could remember about my optics experience (yeah, the three weeks of it I had). It was interesting trying to hold my own in comprehending what was going on. This is the one of the parts I enjoy about physics. Also, the guy who has been convincing us to go to this for weeks now didn't know I was American, so that was kind of cool. Either I say my name in a non-accented way, or I'm blending in well.
After that, I had some spare time until physics lab, where Shaheen and I took on the rest of the semi-conductor experiment. We get to play with dry ice next week! Shaheen was incredibly sleep-deprived from all the work she was doing this week, which made me feel bad about how little I had started on our draft lab report that was due Friday. Shaheen + sleep-deprived = incredibly entertaining. Also, we found out from Gina that we had to have copies of our lab book turned in with the lab. The lab book that Ewa had told us we needed to redo. Upon hearing this information, I was in a state of panic to say the least, but I made up my mind that I was way past panicking and needed to just get stuff done.
Knowing my "tendencies" when it comes to doing assignments, I had decided earlier in the week that I wasn't going to go on the 70's Love Boat cruise this evening with everyone else I know in The Village and instead that I was going to stay home and get stuff done. I hate making decisions like this, but I knew I had to. When I got home, I productively procrastinated the lab report due Friday by typing up some of the semi-conductor lab data from this week for Shaheen. (We put all the data in my book instead of copying it twice during the actual lab; we needed as many hands as possible.)
I worked on the lab, but not as much as I probably should have. And then I watched Lost (the episode from Feb. 25th in the states). I only missed one episode total while I was gone, which worked out better than I expected.
March 25th
Class happened. Then, instead of weekly grocery shopping, I went to the science computer lab to get things done. And by "get things done" I mean, look into spring break.
I then made my way to the optics seminar. It was really fun. The speaker was from the University of Sydney and spoke on the environmental impact of the internet and how optics can, in theory, make this impact smaller. It was an interesting talk. There was also some delicious pizza. Most everything had pineapple and chicken on it, which I love, and there was that delicious passion fruit soda. I met one of the postgrads there and we talked about his research and I tried to tell him all I could remember about my optics experience (yeah, the three weeks of it I had). It was interesting trying to hold my own in comprehending what was going on. This is the one of the parts I enjoy about physics. Also, the guy who has been convincing us to go to this for weeks now didn't know I was American, so that was kind of cool. Either I say my name in a non-accented way, or I'm blending in well.
After that, I had some spare time until physics lab, where Shaheen and I took on the rest of the semi-conductor experiment. We get to play with dry ice next week! Shaheen was incredibly sleep-deprived from all the work she was doing this week, which made me feel bad about how little I had started on our draft lab report that was due Friday. Shaheen + sleep-deprived = incredibly entertaining. Also, we found out from Gina that we had to have copies of our lab book turned in with the lab. The lab book that Ewa had told us we needed to redo. Upon hearing this information, I was in a state of panic to say the least, but I made up my mind that I was way past panicking and needed to just get stuff done.
Knowing my "tendencies" when it comes to doing assignments, I had decided earlier in the week that I wasn't going to go on the 70's Love Boat cruise this evening with everyone else I know in The Village and instead that I was going to stay home and get stuff done. I hate making decisions like this, but I knew I had to. When I got home, I productively procrastinated the lab report due Friday by typing up some of the semi-conductor lab data from this week for Shaheen. (We put all the data in my book instead of copying it twice during the actual lab; we needed as many hands as possible.)
I worked on the lab, but not as much as I probably should have. And then I watched Lost (the episode from Feb. 25th in the states). I only missed one episode total while I was gone, which worked out better than I expected.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Plane Leaves One Week From Today
AHHH! My flight leaves next Wednesday. This is incredibly exciting and scary.
I've been watching a lot of LOST lately, and none of my flights are numbered 815, or any other combination of 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, or 42. Yay.
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