Wednesday was a stressful day - the one class and then I went home and worked all night on my geology report. I got it all done except for the illustration bit and when I tried to use Adobe Illustrator to do it, it just wouldn't do what I wanted until finally I got frustrated and gave up and did it by hand. I kind of regret it, because I think even a shoddy computer illustration would've looked better than the one it took me hours to do by hand. I finished around midnight, went to Jack in the Box for junk food, came home, had a beer in bed, and went to sleep.
Thursday was geology class in the morning, where I turned in my report and then listened to a three hour lecture on continental margins. During class the guy responsible for installing my heater called three times, and left a voicemail. After class I called him back and he wanted to know if I was home so that he could install the heater - I had told him VERY clearly on Wednesday that I would only be available after 3 pm. Do people not listen anymore?!
After that I was so depressed and mentally exhausted I went to the Nugget for a beer and a cheeseburger while reading for the theory meeting we had at 12:30 pm.
The meeting turned out to be just Dr. Lipo, Jake and myself, so that was an interesting change. It was a shorter meeting than usual, and I got home around 2:20, cleaned up a bit, and then called the heater guy who said he'd come by to install it within 20 minutes.
He turned up at 4 pm and fiddled around for an hour then left, promising to return the next day to finish installing it.
I really should have spent the evening working, but I was so tired and miserable I watched tv instead, and went to bed late after finishing a book.
Today I got up late, ate breakfast, and started working on my NAGPRA stuff. I called the heater guy and someone who didn't speak English picked up, but he finally understood what I was asking about and said the guy would call me back. He did a few hours later and I said I was home and he could come by to finish the heater anytime - he promised to come back at three.
At four-thirty he finally turned up with his partner, and they stayed for two and a half hours installing the damn thing, so I missed BBC World News which kind of pissed me off - and I was hungry, not having eaten since 11 am. I also had to leave my door and windows open for the first hour after the heater was started up to get all the toxic fumes out. Apparently you can't have your fire alarm too close to your heater because it'll set it off constantly - my ears are still ringing!
So the heater guy kindly unscrewed my fire alarm from where it was and moved it to one of the beams in my ceiling so it would work for a real fire, but not randomly go off because of the heater. Of course, now I have to get on a chair to get at it, but hopefully it won't set off too frequently...I just have to remember to have the door open when I'm frying latkes!
After they left I ate dinner, and then started watching Scooby Doo Season 1 on DVD - thank you Netflix - and it's awesome! I completely forgot about some of these episodes. Of course, I only have one dvd at a time and there are two per season, but I have the first two seasons on my queue, and I think I can get through all of them before I leave for Orlando...Netflix will be a bit trickier then, even though I'm getting my mail forwarded.
Tomorrow I'm going to write that 5 page paper - that's my goal anyway - and Sunday I'll work on my two final papers that are due on the 13th. The 13th is a big day - Mom's birthday, my two final papers are due, and all my NAGPRA work for the semester is due so it can be handed over to the National Park Service.
Enough writing, it's Scooby Doo time!
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