The Week(end) in Review!
Sep. 25th, 2007 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eponymous_roseLittle late, but then it was a particularly busy weekend!
Things I did this week that come readily to mind:
1. Wrote a terrifying Differential Equations quiz. When you have something that's worth 10% of your mark, you don't expect to only be given fifteen minutes to do it. And when the test consists of one page with precisely one line of text at the top ((dy/dx)xsin(x+y) - xsin(x+y) = cos(x+y). Solve for y.) - brrr. Somehow managed to get the correct answer though, and therefore live to fight/differentiate another day!
2. Didn't pick up my mysterious Inter-Library Loan. I should do that today, since I haven't a clue what it is. And there is a faint chance that it could be one of those Big Finish scriptbooks I ordered, oh, two months ago?
3. Pestered my Dad into ordering the Emma Peel Megaset of The Avengers, because that show is such crack and, despite having been a rabid Avengers fan since the age of, oh, six, I haven't seen all the episodes! When I was a kid, I so wanted to be Emma Peel. Scientist, fencer, spy? Well, two out of three isn't bad. Yes. Two out of three. *shifty eyes*
4. Watched "Stranger Than Fiction", which was considerably better than I expected. And, of course, reinforced my hopeless girlcrush on Emma Thompson. I mean - look!
5. Made plans to go home over Thanksgiving, which means that if Amazon ships quickly, I should be able to steal myself the aforementioned Avengers boxset then. Mwahaha. Also - noticed that I haven't had Thanksgiving dinner with my whole immediate family in almost three years.
6. Wrote two - count 'em, two - fic(let)s set in the Third Doctor's era, one of which may be making an appearance here next week. :D Since it seems like there are about a trillion canonical potholes for me to unwittingly fall into, anyone interested in providing a quick glance-through, just to make sure I haven't made Bessie fluorescent orange or anything? There will be Internet-cookies involved!
7. Hey, if memes can skip numbers, so can I.
8. Started brainstorming for three ficathons that I will be entering - and keep reminding myself of the one fic I still haven't written, because my brain is silly. And also got some work done on WF, but it's slow going.
9. Drove our smaller minivan, which was much easier than attempting to learn to drive with The Tank. I expect that, if I ever get behind the wheel of an actual car, I may actually become competent at this! (Well, that and speed by mistake.)
10. Started looking at new... *coughs*L-A-P-T-O-P-S*coughs*. *pats current laptop reassuringly* It's lovely, but when I can't so much as run Microsoft Word every time the Virus Scan comes up... it may be time for a change. Also - no more battery life + tendency to overheat given more than an hour in the same place. And the campus electronics store has special discounts for students, so that sounds good to me!
Things I did this week that come readily to mind:
1. Wrote a terrifying Differential Equations quiz. When you have something that's worth 10% of your mark, you don't expect to only be given fifteen minutes to do it. And when the test consists of one page with precisely one line of text at the top ((dy/dx)xsin(x+y) - xsin(x+y) = cos(x+y). Solve for y.) - brrr. Somehow managed to get the correct answer though, and therefore live to fight/differentiate another day!
2. Didn't pick up my mysterious Inter-Library Loan. I should do that today, since I haven't a clue what it is. And there is a faint chance that it could be one of those Big Finish scriptbooks I ordered, oh, two months ago?
3. Pestered my Dad into ordering the Emma Peel Megaset of The Avengers, because that show is such crack and, despite having been a rabid Avengers fan since the age of, oh, six, I haven't seen all the episodes! When I was a kid, I so wanted to be Emma Peel. Scientist, fencer, spy? Well, two out of three isn't bad. Yes. Two out of three. *shifty eyes*
4. Watched "Stranger Than Fiction", which was considerably better than I expected. And, of course, reinforced my hopeless girlcrush on Emma Thompson. I mean - look!
5. Made plans to go home over Thanksgiving, which means that if Amazon ships quickly, I should be able to steal myself the aforementioned Avengers boxset then. Mwahaha. Also - noticed that I haven't had Thanksgiving dinner with my whole immediate family in almost three years.
6. Wrote two - count 'em, two - fic(let)s set in the Third Doctor's era, one of which may be making an appearance here next week. :D Since it seems like there are about a trillion canonical potholes for me to unwittingly fall into, anyone interested in providing a quick glance-through, just to make sure I haven't made Bessie fluorescent orange or anything? There will be Internet-cookies involved!
7. Hey, if memes can skip numbers, so can I.
8. Started brainstorming for three ficathons that I will be entering - and keep reminding myself of the one fic I still haven't written, because my brain is silly. And also got some work done on WF, but it's slow going.
9. Drove our smaller minivan, which was much easier than attempting to learn to drive with The Tank. I expect that, if I ever get behind the wheel of an actual car, I may actually become competent at this! (Well, that and speed by mistake.)
10. Started looking at new... *coughs*L-A-P-T-O-P-S*coughs*. *pats current laptop reassuringly* It's lovely, but when I can't so much as run Microsoft Word every time the Virus Scan comes up... it may be time for a change. Also - no more battery life + tendency to overheat given more than an hour in the same place. And the campus electronics store has special discounts for students, so that sounds good to me!
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Date: 2007-09-25 04:00 pm (UTC)when is Canadian Thanksgiving? I don't even know.
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Date: 2007-09-25 05:10 pm (UTC)Enjoy the laptop search. The 12" Macbook is actually pretty sweet, as it will run both Windows and Mas OS X, and is portable and relatively inexpensive. I have a 17" Macbook Pro, but I keep trying to justify getting a little Macbook, too.
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Date: 2007-09-25 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-25 08:13 pm (UTC)And yay for surprise!library loans! I had a message on my voicemail about it right before leaving for the parents' house and was disappointed I couldn't pick it up immediately.
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Date: 2007-09-25 08:20 pm (UTC)And thanks for the recommendations! I love the little MacBooks, and I've heard a lot of good things. It doesn't hurt that the campus store sells them on special.
I've got the 15" Dell Inspiron 1300 at the moment, and the best thing I can say about it is that it's built like a tank - I've dropped it down the stairs with no ill-effect! Apart from that, though...
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Date: 2007-09-25 08:21 pm (UTC)But I'm sure the counterarguments are too numerous for me to plug my ears and ignore. D:
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Date: 2007-09-25 08:22 pm (UTC)Kitten for companion nao plz?
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Date: 2007-09-25 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-25 09:11 pm (UTC)Wireless keyboard! I love those things.
I debated just sort of... souping up this laptop, going for more RAM and more external drives and whatnot - after all, it's too heavy to carry around with me on a regular basis, so it's become something of a desktop anyway. But it's the processing power I really need - and a little extra portability wouldn't go amiss, either.
Mind you, it does currently act as my only DVD player, so having a nice, evenly-lit, big screen is a definite draw. I need to get some real research done for this, especially since I'm hoping to be working on a budget that won't destroy my hopes of a week-long trip to San Francisco in February (a trip which is utterly unrelated to Doctor Who, I'm sure. *coughs*).
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Date: 2007-09-25 11:52 pm (UTC)*bemoans the hiatus of
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Date: 2007-09-26 12:05 am (UTC)Macros are truly the universal language of the intarwebs. *sagenod*
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Date: 2007-09-26 01:30 am (UTC)Just out of curiosity, are there any non-terrifying Differential Equations quizzes? ;)
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Date: 2007-09-26 01:43 am (UTC)?
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Date: 2007-09-26 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-26 02:55 am (UTC)I had a professor in my first-year physics course who'd only ever use smiley faces as variables. We managed to make him stop just before he ran out of facial expressions.
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Date: 2007-09-26 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
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