Screw You, I'm Charming

Classes are boring. Even when Boris is in rare form, as he was today. He'd been slipping, what with the test and all, then the description of the test: "You are all eedeeots. Thees test was seemple." Today, he was back to the old Boris, making jokes and going off on weird tangents about the high jump and his athletic history. This was in order to find the center of mass of a semi-circular arc. Because the guy this high jump move was named after wasn't the guy who invented it, because he said so.

Between classes, we stocked the fridge in the office, and generally wasted the day away. We used some of the name-entering phrase-generators on The Surrealist (go find Lee's link) to waste time, then the "Take Your Humanities Buddy to Class Day" story, some articles from The Onion, Vin Diesel jokes, and the Facebook Friends game, to make it from 10:30 to 12:50.

In Inviscid, I really had trouble staying awake. Not the fault of Dr. Vakili, who I thought was doing a good job of explaining most of the concepts, but I just couldn't stay focused. Some of it is that this is old material to me (in general, though the presentation is new and in a better form). Most of it is that the class is right after lunch. Snooze time.

I did take a nap this afternoon, and I'm still tired now. I've been getting almost 8 hours a night, and I can't make it through a day. First semester senior year, I would have killed for 6 good hours most nights, and I probably slept longer than most of our class. People are supposed to need less sleep as they age, until the situation reverses completely. At least my class tomorrow isn't until 1.

My GRA project might start within a year or so. The first contract (between General Atomics and the Air Force) should be signed by the end of the week. Then it's just a matter of getting UTSI under contract, getting the funding handled, and finally starting the project sometime in the next decade. And I'm done with classes in December. Lee is so much farther along than I am, and I've been here for 10+ months. If Vakili would get motivated to get work done, Lee could probably finish before I would. I think it's just that Vakili is moving slowly on things right now because he's got other things going on, too. I know that Lee is ready to start anytime. As engineers, I think we all like projects that are "here's a broad scope, go find a solution and come back to me with it," but the research, on my end at least, is much more controlled. I have to work at Dr. Moeller's pace, not my own. It's a pain sometimes, but that's how the world works.

10:30 - Justice League time. More tomorrow.