October 2008
45 posts
Ugh. Should have resisted temptation and waited to upgrade to Intrepid. Missed http://tinyurl.com/6b3lqq when checking for known issues.
Glad it’s the weekend, but it’s going to be slightly more hectic since I have an all day structural geology field trip on Sunday.
Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10
It really feels like a Friday…
Watching the World Series…
w00t!
Feeling good because I’m on top of work (and have stayed that way for most of the year so far… woo)
Identifying “biopyribole” minerals
Ahhh… so much paperwork for Amherst to study abroad and continue to receive financial aid.
Measuring, plotting, mapping
Did the PHP developers really just choose such a stupid namespace separator as the backslash? Hilarious.
Rainrainrain
w00t! Won the pumpkin carving contest with this: http://ping.fm/79zTi
TMBG was fantastic!
They Might Be Giants concert tonight in Northhampton!
Optical mineralogy exam is over, let the weekend begin!
Just got out of an awesome talk by Kirk Johnson about Past and Future Climates on Earth
Studying geology abroad in New Zealand from mid-January to July!
Just spent two hours carving a headless horseman pumpkin with a friend
Watching Hitchcock’s /Notorious/
Going to be another drizzly overcast day in Amherst — good for getting work done
Writing about Douglas Sirk’s /All That Heaven Allows/
What happened to ping.fm?
About to listen to a lecture on the tectonics of the Alps by Mark Handy
Sleep now. Totally blew off all school work today. Oh well, more crunch tomorrow I guess.
Compiling my own gcc 4.2 for my Dreamhost account (so I can compile libavcodec correctly, so it won’t be godawful slow)
Just barely staying one step ahead of work
Looking at thin sections and interference figures for my mineralogy lab
About to watch the third (and final) part of the Sci-Fi channel’s 2000 remake of Dune
Wasting time
Fail: Facebook sends notification emails about people in the language setting of said person rather than your language setting
Loving the drizzly day
Looking forward to the short week
Fall Break!
Fall Break is within reach, just a structural geology exam between me and relaxation.
Physical plant took my traffic cone from my room. I didn’t even swipe it from the college!
Finally have somewhat of a handle on things
Going ever so slowly mad
Hate bugs.
Fall!
These minerals are kicking my ass.
Identifying non-biopyribole silicate minerals
Mmmm, honey crisp apples from the Amherst farmer’s market
Studying 40 minerals, their compositions, and properties + writing my paper on Astaire-Rogers musicals and Dirty Dancing.