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Dec. 1st, 2003 10:43 pmTwice now, they've played Belle & Sebastian on radio during World Cafe. This makes me happy. It also makes me happy that the only Calc problem I couldn't do was the calculator one. I'm going to ask Mr. K about that tomorrow. Calc has been a combination of hell and quicksand lately (I just can't catch on or catch up, and feeling stupid is kind of scary), but I think I might be poking through the barrier into some sort of mathematics purgatory or something. Which is better than nothing. (Belle & Sebastian and Calc belong in the same paragraph because I was listening to the radio and doing Calculus homework at the same time.)
I scanned my negatives today into the special negative scanner thing and I think I'll be able to use them after all. The project is all computer manipulation, so I was able to up the brightness and contrast enough to make some interesting (if dark, shadowy, and beat-up) images. I love Photo.
Today is AIDs day.
I called my boss on the phone today to ask about my hours for this week. Saturday 6-9. That's all. It's because the ice cream business slows way down during the winter (for obvious reasons) and none of the employees come in on weekdays; Don just takes care of everything himself. This is a blessing in that I have a lot more time for homework and college stuff now, but I do miss making money. When I was working quite a bit, car insurance didn't seem that bad and neither did "basic" things like gasoline and going out with friends. Now I am much more aware that there are Christmas gifts to buy, insurance to pay for, etc. It's just a miniscule taste of future years, I suppose. It really is amazing how easily I got used to having a substantial, steady income. (My income is still steady, just very small.) I'm excited to go to work on Saturday. It's been such a long time.
I need to finish my Kenyon supplement. I feel like I've been working on it for days. There are so many alternatives to working on this supplement! Enough. I need to buckle down and do it, since I'll feel so much better having completed it. (It's arguably the most important application I have.) I find myself leafing through the Kenyon prospectus again. Sigh.
Yesterday I finished The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, which zapped far too much of my time but was definitely worth it. I felt really, really disturbed after reading some parts. Never before has fiction made the concept of rape, murder, and loss seem so real--so possible. I've known such things happen for many years, but for some reason I had never considered how I would feel if myself or someone close to me experienced them beyond a general sense of "How horrible, something must be done to stop this." It's scary. But the book is beautifully written and takes a hugely imaginative perspective of life after death. It's fascinating.
OK, supplement time. Really.
I scanned my negatives today into the special negative scanner thing and I think I'll be able to use them after all. The project is all computer manipulation, so I was able to up the brightness and contrast enough to make some interesting (if dark, shadowy, and beat-up) images. I love Photo.
Today is AIDs day.
I called my boss on the phone today to ask about my hours for this week. Saturday 6-9. That's all. It's because the ice cream business slows way down during the winter (for obvious reasons) and none of the employees come in on weekdays; Don just takes care of everything himself. This is a blessing in that I have a lot more time for homework and college stuff now, but I do miss making money. When I was working quite a bit, car insurance didn't seem that bad and neither did "basic" things like gasoline and going out with friends. Now I am much more aware that there are Christmas gifts to buy, insurance to pay for, etc. It's just a miniscule taste of future years, I suppose. It really is amazing how easily I got used to having a substantial, steady income. (My income is still steady, just very small.) I'm excited to go to work on Saturday. It's been such a long time.
I need to finish my Kenyon supplement. I feel like I've been working on it for days. There are so many alternatives to working on this supplement! Enough. I need to buckle down and do it, since I'll feel so much better having completed it. (It's arguably the most important application I have.) I find myself leafing through the Kenyon prospectus again. Sigh.
Yesterday I finished The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, which zapped far too much of my time but was definitely worth it. I felt really, really disturbed after reading some parts. Never before has fiction made the concept of rape, murder, and loss seem so real--so possible. I've known such things happen for many years, but for some reason I had never considered how I would feel if myself or someone close to me experienced them beyond a general sense of "How horrible, something must be done to stop this." It's scary. But the book is beautifully written and takes a hugely imaginative perspective of life after death. It's fascinating.
OK, supplement time. Really.
