Friday, September 24, 2010

Today

I woke up a little late today. Beth went with me to school, so I was only 15 minutes late for my 9AM class.
It was really hot last night. Around 11PM we gave up and turned on the air conditioning. It was super hard to sleep lying in pools of our own sweat. Maybe that's why I didn't get up at 7AM.

I had a much better time on my math quiz than I had last week. I'm pretty sure I got the answers right, and quickly (which makes me feel good, I never enjoyed spending a lot of time on a test.) I compared notes with someone who finished right when I had, and we had identical answers and both had high levels of confidence.

I almost solved the wrong problem (again!), and originally produced an answer for 2.0 instead of 0.2, if you weren't there, it's tough to explain, but the answer for 2 was 7, while the answer for .2 was about 5/4.

We had JB Alberto's tonight (a little friday night ritual for us), and went to see the Town (Ben Affleck) at the 400. Buzz came over and rubbed my faux pas at Anne's house in one more time. Fun for everyone.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Tonight

Going to try to get into a free concert at the Art Institute tonight. Mexican music for cello and piano... we'll see how it goes. We hope to sup at the Bennigan's on Michigan first.

This went really well. I had a good time at the concert, and didn't add an unwelcome horn section after dining on the french onion soup. The concert was free, a little under 90 minutes, and very interesting. I hadn't heard of any of these people. I think I may look into Blas Galindo more in the future. Some of the musicianship was really interesting, and Beth wanted to get a little closer to the cello to see the music happening. We had a great view of the pianist.

We tried to hang out in the little garden just south of the art institute entrance, but they wanted to lock up and chased us out (their definition of dusk is a little different than ours.)

Bennigan's should never be a destination, only a speed bump along the way. It really isn't that great. I understand why they went under. I bet if I bought more beer it might be less distressing.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Funny things happened

Well, I went to see the play. Beth had to sit with the designer to review notes. One of the actors was injured during the first half, and didn't reappear, since he'd gone to the hospital. It looks like his bloody nose was just the noticeable part, and they think he's got a concussion. So it was cast change during intermission, and an apologetic director explaining what had happened. Previews can be the most fun.

All the fighting is taking a realistic toll on the fine clothes everyone wears. One of the blood capsules went off before a man was injured, but he had plenty left to make the bloody death more real after the false start.

Found a parking spot just across the tracks. Things went well!

Progress

Well, I have started chatting to a few people on a regular basis, and a few have at least introduced themselves. My homework is no problem, and differential equations is a rocky harbor to moor in. I hope that the less manipulative algebra classes will be of a different tenor. The calculus instructors seem to be a bit abrasive.

Going to a preview of Romeo and Juliet tonight, then hoping to catch a concert tomorrow night at the art museum.

The barber on campus is competitive with the shops in the neighborhood, and it uses my two hour lunch a little better than I could do myself.

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Today

Okay, turned in my statistics homework. I took a quiz in Diff Eqns, which was a relief how easily it went. I wasn't as pleased at how little trouble I had with it as I was at how much quicker than most of the people I was finished. I always feel like the professor is trying to scare people away in the lectures, so I was pretty happy to turn in a good piece of easy work to at least justify my space in the class.

I think I was the only person who typed the stat homework, and I may be the only person using R instead of excel... it seems an entire generation has grown up thinking TI makes the only calculators, and courses include hints on how to use them. I don't know maple or TI calculators, so a lot of the hints in the classes about how to use computers are lost on me. Of course, I know enough C to solve my problems the hard way...