Oh the humanity

Well, I started my astronomy lab today. It's a new, special "educational research" section of the lab, so it's in the education building on really awesome latitude laptops. We get paid 50 bucks to participate in the research part of the course--they film us, we wear mp3 mics, and they record our screens during the classes. We also get interviewed or something afterwards to see how well we learned. The point is to figure out better methods for teaching scientific courses. It will be annoying, I predict, but do-able. We'll never have outside work because the program is pretty buggy and won't run on most computers, and since it is brand new and developed by the ed/astronomy dept here, I don't think they want to give out tons of copies. The TA seems nice enough--probably 30 years old, still single (or doesn't wear a wedding ring) and very, very geeky. Tucked in shirt and white tennis shoes geeky. But I bet he knew what my t-shirt meant: all your base are belong to us.

My grandmother is in the hospital today having surgery to remove her gallbladder. I'm worried because she's 90 years old. Surgery's hard on everyone, but 90 year olds probably take it harder. I'll find out later today how it went.

I should probably go and work on my german homework, which has been slowly piling up since I haven't been doing it, since I don't really care, since I graduate this semester and all I need is a c, really. Since I've been in school way, way, way too long. I've got senioritis times two thousand. And my hands smell like popcorn. Mmmmmmmmm.

Tired. So very, very tired am I. That's what having to be at school at 8am will do to you. And I haven't even remotely done my homework. I should go do that. I should.

posted @ 1/21/2003 10:45:00 AM 0 comments