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Dec. 23rd, 2005 09:57 pm( blah blah blah grades blah blah )
Home now, with family and everyone, playing board games with my siblings, sleeping till I wake up on my own (yay, no alarm!) and wrapping presents and (heh) watching old Stargate: Atlantis episodes, and reading lots and lots. We're going up to Maine for Christmas Eve, seeing my stepdad's parents, which should be nice... so glad for a vacation, finally.
Home now, with family and everyone, playing board games with my siblings, sleeping till I wake up on my own (yay, no alarm!) and wrapping presents and (heh) watching old Stargate: Atlantis episodes, and reading lots and lots. We're going up to Maine for Christmas Eve, seeing my stepdad's parents, which should be nice... so glad for a vacation, finally.
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Dec. 18th, 2005 02:50 amWe sang in Lobby 7 today! Just semi-spontaneous-barely-planned Christmas caroling with a bunch of people from the hall and others, but it was great fun and ohhh I miss singing. Joy to the World and Silent Night and O Come All Ye Faithful and all sorts of other things -- and the acoustics in Lobby 7 make everyone sound amazing regardless of whether you're actually singing correct things, and it was fantastic.
Exams on Tuesday and Wednesday; wish me luck. Sleep schedule currently completely fucked, the last couple days I've been getting roughly 10 hours of sleep, 3am-1pm, and not doing anything strenuous and still exhausted by the end of the day, and this is probably bad, but hopefully will be better by... the day after tomorrow, eek!
Exams on Tuesday and Wednesday; wish me luck. Sleep schedule currently completely fucked, the last couple days I've been getting roughly 10 hours of sleep, 3am-1pm, and not doing anything strenuous and still exhausted by the end of the day, and this is probably bad, but hopefully will be better by... the day after tomorrow, eek!
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Dec. 10th, 2005 02:10 pmMe and the Siberian hamsters, huh?
But yesterday was a cheerful day -- it's really amazing how much more enjoyable and less energy-sapping work is when you're not stuck and frustrated. When things finally WORK it's a beautiful, beautiful sight.
But speaking of frustrating and depressing things, looks like the music piracy wars have their next victim lined up in their sights, and it's lyrics/tabs sites. "Unauthorised use of lyrics and tablature deprives the songwriter of the ability to make a living, and is no different than stealing," says the president of the Music Publishers' Association. Riiiiight, because if I can read the lyrics online and stumble my way through a couple chords then, hell, what's the point in buying the CD? ... and by "right", I mean "absurd".
But yesterday was a cheerful day -- it's really amazing how much more enjoyable and less energy-sapping work is when you're not stuck and frustrated. When things finally WORK it's a beautiful, beautiful sight.
But speaking of frustrating and depressing things, looks like the music piracy wars have their next victim lined up in their sights, and it's lyrics/tabs sites. "Unauthorised use of lyrics and tablature deprives the songwriter of the ability to make a living, and is no different than stealing," says the president of the Music Publishers' Association. Riiiiight, because if I can read the lyrics online and stumble my way through a couple chords then, hell, what's the point in buying the CD? ... and by "right", I mean "absurd".
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Dec. 9th, 2005 03:07 pmIt's fantastic outside.
Huge whirling flakes of snow -- mad, chaotic wind -- thunder claps loud enough to wake me from a sorely needed afternoon nap, and I sleep heavily.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iamtimslife wrote that it's apocalypsing out, which is fairly accurate. But it's pretty awesome.
Unfortunately I am sitting in class (in a basement room with no view nonetheless) and I'm not sure I'll have a spare moment to frolic until it's too late. Dammit.
Huge whirling flakes of snow -- mad, chaotic wind -- thunder claps loud enough to wake me from a sorely needed afternoon nap, and I sleep heavily.
iamtimslife wrote that it's apocalypsing out, which is fairly accurate. But it's pretty awesome. Unfortunately I am sitting in class (in a basement room with no view nonetheless) and I'm not sure I'll have a spare moment to frolic until it's too late. Dammit.
And now for a moment of geekiness
Nov. 29th, 2005 09:54 pmEeeeeeee Firefox 1.5! And okay, I am most terribly excited about this whole being able to click and drag tabs business. It makes my well-suppressed organized side happy. But they've got all sorts of other goodness going on too -- ooo, builtin SVG! (This is what makes your facebook visualize-my-friends page go. You know, the thing you usually have to download an adobe plugin for?) (Note to self: learn how to play with SVG.) And it looks like their support for the later CSS versions is newer and shinier, and they have this interesting "Clear Private Data" setting so you can dump your history files and cache and so forth automagically upon quitting, if that's what you want, and all sorts of other general improvements. Go get it!
... and now back to your regularly scheduled bitching about life.
... and now back to your regularly scheduled bitching about life.
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Nov. 26th, 2005 01:40 am( So, does anyone else get this talk? )
Anyways. Being home is wonderful and relaxing and my little half-brother is adorable and brilliant and boy do I miss him. My other brother, age 17, and I get along much much better now that we don't live together anymore, which I'm not sure if I should be sad or glad about. I think he's also getting perilously close to six feet tall, I have to look up to talk to him, which is definitely not fair at all. And I haven't gotten any tooling at all done yet which is a very very bad thing.
The borrowed computer I am using doesn't have admin privileges on this account, though, so I couldn't really tool on 6.170 even if I wanted to. (Which I sorta do.) It also closes browser windows entirely of its own accord (my theory is something weird having to do with the touchpad) at random intervals which lends an interesting sort of finiteness to websurfing. I'm the type to leave twelve tabs open at all times with things I intend to look at more closely or send to people and it's actually probably upping my productivity not to be able to do that. But also messing with my mind.
Anyways. Being home is wonderful and relaxing and my little half-brother is adorable and brilliant and boy do I miss him. My other brother, age 17, and I get along much much better now that we don't live together anymore, which I'm not sure if I should be sad or glad about. I think he's also getting perilously close to six feet tall, I have to look up to talk to him, which is definitely not fair at all. And I haven't gotten any tooling at all done yet which is a very very bad thing.
The borrowed computer I am using doesn't have admin privileges on this account, though, so I couldn't really tool on 6.170 even if I wanted to. (Which I sorta do.) It also closes browser windows entirely of its own accord (my theory is something weird having to do with the touchpad) at random intervals which lends an interesting sort of finiteness to websurfing. I'm the type to leave twelve tabs open at all times with things I intend to look at more closely or send to people and it's actually probably upping my productivity not to be able to do that. But also messing with my mind.
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Nov. 23rd, 2005 03:13 amTonight was totally going to be the night I got work done and then got lots of sleep.
Instead I spent five hours goofing around with karaoke with -- let's see, at some point or other probably at least half of the floor was involved. It was fantastic. There's nothing quite so freeing and enabling as expecting that you and everyone else in the room sucks. (So if you 5th Easters heard the utter cacophany in Goodale between 9pm and 3am and were wondering... yeah.) We conned nearly everyone who wandered through into singing, including our GRT and one of the hall semighosts and a few people who normally refuse to sing outright. And I think they had fun. Mmm, peer pressure. Whee!
It's been ages since I really sang so I sucked a lot, of course. We were playing Karaoke Revolution, which judges you based on your pitch and to some extent on rhythm -- I'm decent with pitch matching on songs I know, but I have this bad habit of swooping up or down to notes that both screws me over with respect to this game's scoring system and used to earn me lectures from my chorus director Back In The Day. I miss singing. A number of people were really surprisingly good though... I'm remembering how at some point last year we ended up with an impromptu slug jam session in the music room, two electric guitars and an acoustic and the piano and one or two violins and a variety of voices, a semi-strange selection but lots of fun. We need to do it again... we're just all so hosed these days. (How much longer till IAP?)
So now I need to do the postlab for 6.002 over vacation, as well as 6.170 tooling and, oh yeah, the 6.002 pset. So vacation will be the time when I get done and then get lots of sleep. Hey, can't be *more* of a miss at those goals than tonight was...
Instead I spent five hours goofing around with karaoke with -- let's see, at some point or other probably at least half of the floor was involved. It was fantastic. There's nothing quite so freeing and enabling as expecting that you and everyone else in the room sucks. (So if you 5th Easters heard the utter cacophany in Goodale between 9pm and 3am and were wondering... yeah.) We conned nearly everyone who wandered through into singing, including our GRT and one of the hall semighosts and a few people who normally refuse to sing outright. And I think they had fun. Mmm, peer pressure. Whee!
It's been ages since I really sang so I sucked a lot, of course. We were playing Karaoke Revolution, which judges you based on your pitch and to some extent on rhythm -- I'm decent with pitch matching on songs I know, but I have this bad habit of swooping up or down to notes that both screws me over with respect to this game's scoring system and used to earn me lectures from my chorus director Back In The Day. I miss singing. A number of people were really surprisingly good though... I'm remembering how at some point last year we ended up with an impromptu slug jam session in the music room, two electric guitars and an acoustic and the piano and one or two violins and a variety of voices, a semi-strange selection but lots of fun. We need to do it again... we're just all so hosed these days. (How much longer till IAP?)
So now I need to do the postlab for 6.002 over vacation, as well as 6.170 tooling and, oh yeah, the 6.002 pset. So vacation will be the time when I get done and then get lots of sleep. Hey, can't be *more* of a miss at those goals than tonight was...
4e Thankgiving: amazing, absurd quantities of food. 4 turkeys, 12 pies, bread and cornbread and corn and carrots and peas and sweet potatoes with and without marshmallows on top, and stuffing and cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, and the list goes on. It was a beautiful thing.
On the 6.170 front: 11 hours of quality time with Java and one more last-minute redesign later, hsqldb is totally my bitch and the backend of our rss reader works like a dream only slightly tinged with nightmare.
Speaking of dreams, it's probably about bedtime now. Whee!
On the 6.170 front: 11 hours of quality time with Java and one more last-minute redesign later, hsqldb is totally my bitch and the backend of our rss reader works like a dream only slightly tinged with nightmare.
Speaking of dreams, it's probably about bedtime now. Whee!
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Nov. 16th, 2005 08:33 pmFood and porn.
So next semester, I'm thinking it's going to be 6.003, 6.004, 6.034, and 24.900. I'm tempted to try to throw some sort of fluffy foofy HASS in there as well 'cause I'm behind one, but I gather 6.003 and 6.004 can get pretty hosing in combination so maybe not so much. ( Number translations, for those not currently getting beaten down by the institvte... )
... and now back to getting through *this* semester.
So next semester, I'm thinking it's going to be 6.003, 6.004, 6.034, and 24.900. I'm tempted to try to throw some sort of fluffy foofy HASS in there as well 'cause I'm behind one, but I gather 6.003 and 6.004 can get pretty hosing in combination so maybe not so much. ( Number translations, for those not currently getting beaten down by the institvte... )
... and now back to getting through *this* semester.
Being paranoid about walking to E51 at 2am:
a.) is really fantastically stupid because it's almost always within sight of both my dorm and several blue-light cop-calling safety poles and it's only a three minute walk anyways
b.) is sorta justified because it's 2am in the city and the street's silent and deserted and I am very obviously a 19-year-old girl who knows zero self-defense all alone
c.) good god alison go to sleep already.
Option c's probably the best one. There are lots of other things going on but it's easiest to talk about the stupid insignificant ones. Currently working with the temporary from-home slooooow dooooooom computer, which is still much better than nothing at least.
a.) is really fantastically stupid because it's almost always within sight of both my dorm and several blue-light cop-calling safety poles and it's only a three minute walk anyways
b.) is sorta justified because it's 2am in the city and the street's silent and deserted and I am very obviously a 19-year-old girl who knows zero self-defense all alone
c.) good god alison go to sleep already.
Option c's probably the best one. There are lots of other things going on but it's easiest to talk about the stupid insignificant ones. Currently working with the temporary from-home slooooow dooooooom computer, which is still much better than nothing at least.
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Oct. 31st, 2005 06:10 pm( food meme )
This is the last you'll see of me for a while since the computer of doom has once again gone kaput.
This is the last you'll see of me for a while since the computer of doom has once again gone kaput.
whee, SAD, etc
Oct. 25th, 2005 09:58 pmOK, note to self: in future, take advantage of when things go right rather than waiting around till they go wrong again.
Time to go hit the Ben & Jerry's stash.
( Read more... )
Time to go hit the Ben & Jerry's stash.
( Read more... )
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Oct. 11th, 2005 11:34 pmTeam Obscene Birthday Baking strikes again.
Moral: There's nothing like cupcakes to cheer people up.
No pictures, because at this point not only does my little sister read this, so does my mother, I think. (But if you're not either of those, ask and I will e-mail.)
Moral: There's nothing like cupcakes to cheer people up.
No pictures, because at this point not only does my little sister read this, so does my mother, I think. (But if you're not either of those, ask and I will e-mail.)
So evidently some people did not know that I write. (Sort of. Badly. Sort of badly.) Which is fine but surprising -- I didn't realize how much it'd fallen out of my life.
("I write" -- what an odd sort of declaration to make. Doesn't everyone write?)
Anyways. Poetry, some old, some new, some better than others.
Feedback welcome and much appreciated, as always.
("I write" -- what an odd sort of declaration to make. Doesn't everyone write?)
Anyways. Poetry, some old, some new, some better than others.
- untitled [novel fragrance?] -- 9/05 -- may be familiar to beat_the_beaver & liz_factorial if they recall the "I am *such* a book whore" conversation. probably the silliest & least finished of this lot.
- letter to an economist who should know better -- 1/05 -- the closest I get to writing about current events. i want to read this one aloud.
- scabs & bruises & letting go -- 8/04 -- most of you have seen this one already because I've posted it here before. my favorite of these four.
- starlight miscarriage -- 8/05 -- tragically I can't take credit for the title, which is really the awesomest part of this.
Feedback welcome and much appreciated, as always.
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Oct. 5th, 2005 10:25 pmEight hours of sleep, as a regular, routine schedule -- and I'm happy. (Throw in the occasional ten and I'm ecstatic.)
Six hours of sleep, on the same basis -- I'm functional.
Less than that -- it's not pretty.
Guess which bracket I'm currently living in. I don't think I can remember the last night I got anywhere near 8 hours of sleep, which (heh) may have a whole lot to do with my current (sleep-deprived) mental state as much as the fact that if I had to hazard a guess as to when the last time was it'd be at least two weeks ago. At least a few days, probably almost a week since I had six. Ah, MIT. Ah, lack of time-management skills. Back to work. Sorry for the whining.
Six hours of sleep, on the same basis -- I'm functional.
Less than that -- it's not pretty.
Guess which bracket I'm currently living in. I don't think I can remember the last night I got anywhere near 8 hours of sleep, which (heh) may have a whole lot to do with my current (sleep-deprived) mental state as much as the fact that if I had to hazard a guess as to when the last time was it'd be at least two weeks ago. At least a few days, probably almost a week since I had six. Ah, MIT. Ah, lack of time-management skills. Back to work. Sorry for the whining.
