Didn't make cookies, should have.
Worked until 1:30 am.
Got up at 7:30 am.
Made a mess of my presentation. No applause.
Other presentations got applause.
Spent rest of day alone in office, in locked, dark and cold lab.
Home now. Get to eat (they did fix my big burner, finally), and then homework.
Gah.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Sunday, January 26, 2014
It's been awhile
I've been a little busy. Grad school is just as hectic this semester.
Tonight I have to finish my presentation on the Molasses Reef and Highborn Cay shipwrecks. And I'm baking chocolate mint cookies to make everyone love me. Yes, I'm shamelessly bribing my classmates. I don't want to do anything though, I'm so damn tired.
I am also apartment hunting. The big burner - the ONLY big burner - on my stove is out and although I've sent in three maintenance requests about it (the first two were about it not working properly, the last one was about it completely breaking - I can press my hand flat on it, and it'll be stone cold AFTER being turned on high for 5 minutes) and an email about it. I've had enough. This is bull.
My outside light is finally fixed, and I can occasionally coax some warm water out of my shower after running it for 10-15 minutes first, so that is at least helpful.
But being on a diet is cruddy enough without not having a big burner on my stove, rendering me unable to make stir-fry, curry, or pretty much anything. I'm roasting a batch of brats right now and will microwave them over the course of the week, praying the burner will be fixed sometime and I can cook again.
Oven is smoking again. Guess I need to open my front window. There. I have started turning on my fan and placing it directly below my smoke alarm every time I cook, and I have been spared more evil shrieks, thank goodness. It's still irritating as all get out though. The noise from fans drives me nuts, particularly the ungodly loud one over the stove.
The weather is also being irritating. It snowed Thursday night and it's supposed to snow again Tuesday GAH!
It sucks.
Oh well should get back to work. Yay, grad school.
Tonight I have to finish my presentation on the Molasses Reef and Highborn Cay shipwrecks. And I'm baking chocolate mint cookies to make everyone love me. Yes, I'm shamelessly bribing my classmates. I don't want to do anything though, I'm so damn tired.
I am also apartment hunting. The big burner - the ONLY big burner - on my stove is out and although I've sent in three maintenance requests about it (the first two were about it not working properly, the last one was about it completely breaking - I can press my hand flat on it, and it'll be stone cold AFTER being turned on high for 5 minutes) and an email about it. I've had enough. This is bull.
My outside light is finally fixed, and I can occasionally coax some warm water out of my shower after running it for 10-15 minutes first, so that is at least helpful.
But being on a diet is cruddy enough without not having a big burner on my stove, rendering me unable to make stir-fry, curry, or pretty much anything. I'm roasting a batch of brats right now and will microwave them over the course of the week, praying the burner will be fixed sometime and I can cook again.
Oven is smoking again. Guess I need to open my front window. There. I have started turning on my fan and placing it directly below my smoke alarm every time I cook, and I have been spared more evil shrieks, thank goodness. It's still irritating as all get out though. The noise from fans drives me nuts, particularly the ungodly loud one over the stove.
The weather is also being irritating. It snowed Thursday night and it's supposed to snow again Tuesday GAH!
It sucks.
Oh well should get back to work. Yay, grad school.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
From my couch
I am sick AGAIN.
So I had a lovely birthday at home (fantastic dinner at the Ravenous Pig that evening), had a wonderful last Sunday with an afternoon braai and a good book, and left Orlando early Monday morning. Spent nearly 11 hours on the road (for a 9 hour 30 minute drive) and went straight to Cochon (apparently this means pig) and had a LOVELY dinner of rabbit and dumplings.
For the record, my last day in Orlando was 84F. When I parked my car in New Orleans and walked the two blocks to Cochon, it was 28F, plus windchill. (When I got to College Station it was 46F.) Then I went to my motel and curled up in bed and tried to ignore the people thumping and bumping upstairs (I swear it sounded like they were practicing for the circus).
Next morning I woke up at 7 am on the dot, and was on the road at 7:40 am. It took me nearly half an hour to get gasoline and I liberally cursed everyone and their antecedents for parking in front of all the gas pumps AND THEN LEAVING THEIR CARS ALONE. I had to stop for McDonald's for lunch because it was pretty much my only option for where I was (it was attached to a gas station that did indeed turn out to be the last one for miles) and the bloody woman wouldn't give me my water cup for about five minutes after I'd gotten my food. REALLY?
Then my GPS took me through all these backroads, which did save me 70 miles or so, but getting constantly stuck behind horse trailers, having to go from 75 mph to 0 mph for sundry red lights or morons, and having a sheriff tail me for nearly 20 minutes nearly gave me a nervous breakdown and I nearly cried when I finally pulled into my apartment complex at 3 pm Tuesday afternoon.
By 4 pm all my stuff was upstairs and I'd set up my TV (hooray!)
Then I went to Wal Mart (towels and hangers) and Target (just looked at the DVD players) and HEB (got my groceries for the week).
Came home, put everything away, made dinner
(sigh...I am going to miss carbs - although even though I'm giving up bread, rice and potatoes, I'm keeping my pasta dammit!)
and then I settled down to a nice evening watching tv. I looked on Amazon at DVD players and after a phone call home, I went back to Target and bought a Philips DVD player (and my tv is a Philips too lol - I swear that wasn't intentional) and managed to get my tv set up on the cable (I originally hadn't realized I would need to reprogram the cable, the way it scanned originally the first time we turned it on), and use the red/yellow/white cords to attach my DVD player. Then I went on Amazon and ordered an HDMI cable (for a faster, clearer, better picture) for the DVD player and the first season of Allo Allo (this is all thanks to my aunts and uncle who gave me Amazon and Target gift cards...definitely couldn't have done this without their generosity!) which should arrive sometime today.
Wednesday I woke up at 7 but felt pretty cruddy and it was nearly 10:30 by the time I got to campus. I stayed in lab until 4:30 and came home, and spent my evening eating, reading, and watching my awesome new tv.
I went to bed at 11:30 (very early for me) and woke up at 7 am SICK AS A DOG. Snot was bubbling like a witch's cauldron...you don't want to know the details. I stayed in bed for two hours, hoping it would pass off, which it did not. So I got up, brushed my teeth, washed my face, removed my pillow and comforter to the couch and attempted to boil some water for a cup of noodles. 40 minutes later, after some cursing and freaking out, I moved the frying pan to the smaller burner, where it finally heated the water and I could make my noodles and tea.
I have sent in a maintenance request, but considering not only is my water in the shower still cold (even after I run it for 20 minutes) and the light over my front door (outside) still out, when I sent in those requests TWO WEEKS ago, I think I might be screwed. These people don't seem to want me to renew my damn lease. I'm too sick to go apartment hunting right now. Maybe in a few days.
I feel like I should be working from home but I just feel too awful. I need to get better so I can go in tomorrow. So I think I'll take today easy. Hope it works.
Think it might be time for more tea...good thing Mom gave me a box before I left!
So I had a lovely birthday at home (fantastic dinner at the Ravenous Pig that evening), had a wonderful last Sunday with an afternoon braai and a good book, and left Orlando early Monday morning. Spent nearly 11 hours on the road (for a 9 hour 30 minute drive) and went straight to Cochon (apparently this means pig) and had a LOVELY dinner of rabbit and dumplings.
For the record, my last day in Orlando was 84F. When I parked my car in New Orleans and walked the two blocks to Cochon, it was 28F, plus windchill. (When I got to College Station it was 46F.) Then I went to my motel and curled up in bed and tried to ignore the people thumping and bumping upstairs (I swear it sounded like they were practicing for the circus).
Next morning I woke up at 7 am on the dot, and was on the road at 7:40 am. It took me nearly half an hour to get gasoline and I liberally cursed everyone and their antecedents for parking in front of all the gas pumps AND THEN LEAVING THEIR CARS ALONE. I had to stop for McDonald's for lunch because it was pretty much my only option for where I was (it was attached to a gas station that did indeed turn out to be the last one for miles) and the bloody woman wouldn't give me my water cup for about five minutes after I'd gotten my food. REALLY?
Then my GPS took me through all these backroads, which did save me 70 miles or so, but getting constantly stuck behind horse trailers, having to go from 75 mph to 0 mph for sundry red lights or morons, and having a sheriff tail me for nearly 20 minutes nearly gave me a nervous breakdown and I nearly cried when I finally pulled into my apartment complex at 3 pm Tuesday afternoon.
By 4 pm all my stuff was upstairs and I'd set up my TV (hooray!)
Then I went to Wal Mart (towels and hangers) and Target (just looked at the DVD players) and HEB (got my groceries for the week).
Came home, put everything away, made dinner
(sigh...I am going to miss carbs - although even though I'm giving up bread, rice and potatoes, I'm keeping my pasta dammit!)
and then I settled down to a nice evening watching tv. I looked on Amazon at DVD players and after a phone call home, I went back to Target and bought a Philips DVD player (and my tv is a Philips too lol - I swear that wasn't intentional) and managed to get my tv set up on the cable (I originally hadn't realized I would need to reprogram the cable, the way it scanned originally the first time we turned it on), and use the red/yellow/white cords to attach my DVD player. Then I went on Amazon and ordered an HDMI cable (for a faster, clearer, better picture) for the DVD player and the first season of Allo Allo (this is all thanks to my aunts and uncle who gave me Amazon and Target gift cards...definitely couldn't have done this without their generosity!) which should arrive sometime today.
Wednesday I woke up at 7 but felt pretty cruddy and it was nearly 10:30 by the time I got to campus. I stayed in lab until 4:30 and came home, and spent my evening eating, reading, and watching my awesome new tv.
I went to bed at 11:30 (very early for me) and woke up at 7 am SICK AS A DOG. Snot was bubbling like a witch's cauldron...you don't want to know the details. I stayed in bed for two hours, hoping it would pass off, which it did not. So I got up, brushed my teeth, washed my face, removed my pillow and comforter to the couch and attempted to boil some water for a cup of noodles. 40 minutes later, after some cursing and freaking out, I moved the frying pan to the smaller burner, where it finally heated the water and I could make my noodles and tea.
I have sent in a maintenance request, but considering not only is my water in the shower still cold (even after I run it for 20 minutes) and the light over my front door (outside) still out, when I sent in those requests TWO WEEKS ago, I think I might be screwed. These people don't seem to want me to renew my damn lease. I'm too sick to go apartment hunting right now. Maybe in a few days.
I feel like I should be working from home but I just feel too awful. I need to get better so I can go in tomorrow. So I think I'll take today easy. Hope it works.
Think it might be time for more tea...good thing Mom gave me a box before I left!
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Yum!
Decided to write down as many positive things as I can each day (this is not a resolution...people break those...lol) to help me see things in a positive light.
So today I got to sleep in (yay!), woke up feeling healthy (this is good because I got carsick on the way home last night. I was NOT driving - it was just because I was in the back seat. I wish I had grown out of carsickness!!), I went for a nice peaceful walk (unmolested by any bears), went grocery shopping with my mom (this might sound strange, but I miss it a lot when I'm not home), and got to spend the afternoon snuggled up with a box of licorice allsorts and a book (if you don't love candy and a book...then I just can't help you).
Right now I'm watching a football game, which is good, but I'm feeling slightly ill after dinner. We had short ribs which are DELICIOUS, but it's so fatty I feel a little sick (I guess I really HAVE reduced fat in my own diet - another good thing?), so I'm letting my stomach relax before calling it a good thing.
Rather feeling like finding another book, but it's difficult for me to read with football on, and I got so little football this season...oh decisions!
So today I got to sleep in (yay!), woke up feeling healthy (this is good because I got carsick on the way home last night. I was NOT driving - it was just because I was in the back seat. I wish I had grown out of carsickness!!), I went for a nice peaceful walk (unmolested by any bears), went grocery shopping with my mom (this might sound strange, but I miss it a lot when I'm not home), and got to spend the afternoon snuggled up with a box of licorice allsorts and a book (if you don't love candy and a book...then I just can't help you).
Right now I'm watching a football game, which is good, but I'm feeling slightly ill after dinner. We had short ribs which are DELICIOUS, but it's so fatty I feel a little sick (I guess I really HAVE reduced fat in my own diet - another good thing?), so I'm letting my stomach relax before calling it a good thing.
Rather feeling like finding another book, but it's difficult for me to read with football on, and I got so little football this season...oh decisions!
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