Raping Rhinoceroses

The whole world is upside down. Down is up; up is down. Elephants are raping rhinoceroses.

WHAT?! That, however, was the basic closing argument for the case on tonight's Boston Legal. If you haven't started watching that show, download and watch the first three minutes of tonight's episode and you'll be hooked. The trombone kazoo sells it.

Yesterday, I went up to school and talked to my thesis advisor. Nothing new, he still hadn't heard back from the people higher up on the ladder. He was going to call them and let me know. Today, I stayed around the apartment, and he finally emailed me that instead of early January for the meeting, it's now going to be early February. Keep in mind this whole project was supposed to start early LAST year. I am going to have things to do that will probably help my thesis in the mean time. I've got a thermodynamic analysis that I'm supposed to look over and probably further develop to do some trade studies (probably in an Excel format - go Excel).

I told Dr. Moeller yesterday that I'd signed up for both classes for credit rather than auditing, and I think he was a little surprised. I don't actually need any classes, but both he and Dr. Schulz wanted me to be in Convection Heat Transfer in some capacity and I wanted to take Tactical Missile Design, so I figured auditing a class may mean that I don't have to do the work, but that's the very definition of Dr. Antar's class, so why not go ahead and get credit for it? And this way both show up on my transcript as for-credit classes. MISSILES.

President Josiah Bartlet: Just remember these two things: she's nineteen years old, and the 82nd Airborne works for me.

More tomorrow.