A late night summary of my day
1:49 pm
Original Date posted: Tue, 09 March 2004 08:21:54
Post: This is a late night entry I am adding. The clock is near to striking 1 a.m. I am alone, but with my door slightly ajar, so that if anyone may come past, they can wander in and say hello. People tend to do this during the day, but when everyone’s asleep my chances of seeing human life are moderate to slim.
Today has been a rather un-enigmatic day, few things have happened that excel in my mind. I awoke at the mundane hour of nine to the pleasant resounding of my phone alarm, shortly followed by my computer alarm (the back up). As the energetic lethargic I am, I jumped out of bed, turned off the clocks and went back to a day time snooze. To be pleasantly awoken by my girlfriend an hour later.
Prior to my two o’clock seminar concerning my design project, I decided to go through the course notes for the Mathematics lecture I had missed on Monday. It covered, “Partial Differential Equations”. I re-wrote the notes in a hope to understand them; failing miserably. I have vague blurry concepts swirling in my head – separate the variables, solves the differential equations, apply the boundary conditions, fall down the rabbit hole, flow in a plane, Laplace’s equation. While hurriedly dashing through the numerical ramblings, my girlfriend made me an egg sandwich. Sadly I realized I had to dash out to a seminar group meeting – a pre-meeting to our scheduled seminar. She hurried the egg, cooled it and cracked it, it wasn’t boiled and in a vengeful act decided to spread itself all over the floor and sink. The thought was nice though.
As I sprinted, in a walking fashion, to this meeting, I was taken back by an almighty half price poster sale in the student’s union – something I must immediately capitalize on. In I galloped and purchased for my delectable self one enormous matrix poster, 2m in width. £3.50 was the asking price – a bargain. This hunky tube now weighed me down, I had to return to my home place to deposit it. All in all, I ended up twenty minutes late to my meeting, holding two fresh pork pies that I quickly nuzzled on before my team mates could eye my presence. The following three hours were awash with witty retorts and engineering drawings in an attempt to complete our failing piston project which we should be manufacturing in five weeks time.
The design is a Perspex casing, with Perspex caps, an aluminium centre cam and connecting rod, nylon piston and steel piston tube. We will stick it all together using adhesives and screws and then apply pressured gas through an appropriate inlet. It will go up and down very fast and cause rotary motion. Or that’s the theory we derived from the aforementioned specification. We shall see.
This evening I have spent three or so hours completing my other team’s “car seat report” consisting of roughly 8000 words. It was a magnanimous task on my part that took forever. I struggled to rework references, reword poor English, write a sufficient conclusion and wait for final reports to come in from outlying team members who are never on time.
Then I played some No Limit Texas Hold ‘em poker, herein I increased my money six fold, which was pleasant. Nothing great simply because it was play internet money of value smaller than monopoly money. But still, it’s better than nothing I suppose.
Now it’s quarter past one and a group of louts have exited the union and are proceeding to shout loudly in the square across from my room. Ah the perilous joys of student life.
Post: This is a late night entry I am adding. The clock is near to striking 1 a.m. I am alone, but with my door slightly ajar, so that if anyone may come past, they can wander in and say hello. People tend to do this during the day, but when everyone’s asleep my chances of seeing human life are moderate to slim.
Today has been a rather un-enigmatic day, few things have happened that excel in my mind. I awoke at the mundane hour of nine to the pleasant resounding of my phone alarm, shortly followed by my computer alarm (the back up). As the energetic lethargic I am, I jumped out of bed, turned off the clocks and went back to a day time snooze. To be pleasantly awoken by my girlfriend an hour later.
Prior to my two o’clock seminar concerning my design project, I decided to go through the course notes for the Mathematics lecture I had missed on Monday. It covered, “Partial Differential Equations”. I re-wrote the notes in a hope to understand them; failing miserably. I have vague blurry concepts swirling in my head – separate the variables, solves the differential equations, apply the boundary conditions, fall down the rabbit hole, flow in a plane, Laplace’s equation. While hurriedly dashing through the numerical ramblings, my girlfriend made me an egg sandwich. Sadly I realized I had to dash out to a seminar group meeting – a pre-meeting to our scheduled seminar. She hurried the egg, cooled it and cracked it, it wasn’t boiled and in a vengeful act decided to spread itself all over the floor and sink. The thought was nice though.
As I sprinted, in a walking fashion, to this meeting, I was taken back by an almighty half price poster sale in the student’s union – something I must immediately capitalize on. In I galloped and purchased for my delectable self one enormous matrix poster, 2m in width. £3.50 was the asking price – a bargain. This hunky tube now weighed me down, I had to return to my home place to deposit it. All in all, I ended up twenty minutes late to my meeting, holding two fresh pork pies that I quickly nuzzled on before my team mates could eye my presence. The following three hours were awash with witty retorts and engineering drawings in an attempt to complete our failing piston project which we should be manufacturing in five weeks time.
The design is a Perspex casing, with Perspex caps, an aluminium centre cam and connecting rod, nylon piston and steel piston tube. We will stick it all together using adhesives and screws and then apply pressured gas through an appropriate inlet. It will go up and down very fast and cause rotary motion. Or that’s the theory we derived from the aforementioned specification. We shall see.
This evening I have spent three or so hours completing my other team’s “car seat report” consisting of roughly 8000 words. It was a magnanimous task on my part that took forever. I struggled to rework references, reword poor English, write a sufficient conclusion and wait for final reports to come in from outlying team members who are never on time.
Then I played some No Limit Texas Hold ‘em poker, herein I increased my money six fold, which was pleasant. Nothing great simply because it was play internet money of value smaller than monopoly money. But still, it’s better than nothing I suppose.
Now it’s quarter past one and a group of louts have exited the union and are proceeding to shout loudly in the square across from my room. Ah the perilous joys of student life.
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