The “Claudia, Why Do You Have So Many Trinkets?” Blog
‘Sup.
In the wake of EXCITING CONDO NEWS comes the NOT SO EXCITING “I HAVE TO PACK UP ALL MY CRAP AGAIN” realization. Joy of joys.
Anyway.
I got to looking around at the stuff on my shelves and I realized that I really do have a lot of little…thingies.
Just thingies.
Examples:
This little Space Needle thingy. I like it ‘cause of the color.
This crown thing. I think it’s for rings, but since I have no rings (or any that I ever wear, haha), I just keep this on the top shelf because it’s pretty.
Itty bitty hippo!
All my Lego dudes and miscellaneous other Lego things. These were what I used in my old Wacky Peter videos.
This super old iPod Nano that hardly holds a charge but I keep JUST IN CASE.
This clay dino that I made way back when. I made him so that he fits my hand nicely.
Sparkly bird! It’s actually a photo holder (it’s got a ring at the top of it), but I just have it on my shelf.
Skunk. This was Raymond Cat’s toy, but he didn’t like it and I thought it was cute, so I kept it, haha.
Wobbly dude.
Yeah. I don’t have any real use for any of these, but most of them have been with me for awhile, so I just hang on to them, haha.
The April List – 2015
IT’S THE APRIL LIST
- I wish I knew when I was TA-ing in the spring/summer.
- Yes, I said “spring/summer” because U of C is weird. “Fall semester” is like UI’s fall semester (September to December). “Winter semester” is like UI’s spring semester (January to April). “Spring semester” is like the first half of UI’s summer semester (May to June) and “summer semester” is like the second half of UI’s summer semester (July to August). Odd news.
- May needs to get here for two reasons: 1) I’m ready for this semester to be over, and 2) I really, really need new shoes.
- Holy hell, do I need new shoes.
- I should bring those “This Week’s Science Blog” posts back.
- Tomorrow I’m going to see Age of Ultron with Nate and I’m super excited. Excited enough to make it a point in the April list, apparently.
- Um, iPod? I’m not sure that conversion is correct.
- I have a very strong and sudden urge to write a biography of John Tukey. Statisticians need biographies, too! It’s too bad I suck at writing in general and suck even more at nonfiction writing.
- HAHAHA, I accidentally hit the “random blog post” button on my blog and it brought me to this page and I remember finding that damn picture on the Australian Chicken Meat Federation webpage. WTF, Australia?
Shamrockin’
I’m getting good at this minimal food/minimal water/minimal sleep thing. If there’s ever some huge crisis and stuff needs to be super rationed, I’ll be set.
Hopefully that won’t happen, but you never know.
WOOOOO I’M HYPER TONIGHT!!!
You know you’re in Canada when…
I’m at Safeway and in the checkout lane next to a checker who’s just turned her light off to go home. A guy drives his cart up to her conveyor and starts unloading stuff.
Checker: I’m sorry, sir, I’m closed.
Guy: What?
Checker: I just closed, sorry.
Guy: Oh! I’m sorry!
Checker: It’s alright, sir!
Guy: I’m sorry, let me take this stuff off the belt.
Checker: I’m sorry; here, let me help.
Guy: Sorry!
Checker: Sorry!
This goes on for like a minute while they clear off his stuff and he runs off, apologizing, to the next open checker.
Oh, Canadians.
POOFY BISCUITS
I miss Americans.
Is that a weird thing to say?
Like, Canadians are super cool and so are all my grad school friends from across the globe, but I miss my fellow USA peoples. At UBC, the incoming psych grad students were pretty much split 50/50 between Canadians and Americans, but I’m literally the only American grad student in the stats department here. It’s weird.
BLUH.
Ever had one of those days where you’re super sad for absolutely no reason?
That’s today for me, y’all. So this is all you get.
Sorry.
NEERNEERNEER
This is still one of the most entertaining comparison charts for some reason. Like, I have no idea why the different temperature scales are so damn entertaining to me, but they are.
It’s like a little family of scales, dude. Rankine and Kelvin are the parents; Fahrenheit wants to be just like daddy (mommy?) Rankine; Celcius wants to be just like mommy (daddy?) Kelvin. Réaumur, Rømer, and Newton just want to stay out of things.
And what the hell is Delisle doing?
Actually, the reason the Delisle scale is in “reverse” is because its inventor, French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, built a thermometer containing mercury, chose boiling water as his initial “zero” point, and measured the change in the amount the contracted or expanded. Contracting mercury (that is, colder temperatures) “added” to the zero (meaning higher values on the Delisle scale); expanding mercury (warmer temperatures) “subtracted” from zero (meaning lower values on the Delisle scale). Apparently Celsius was also originally “reversed” like this, but was changed upon the death of its inventor, Anders Celsius, who had based the scale partially on Delisle’s work.
Cool stuff.
Also, I love the idea that the average human body temperature is 558.27 degrees using the Rankine scale.
I have nothing else today, sorry
Nate’s been catching me up on my Marvel movies (and by “catching me up” I mean “showing me all the Marvel movies ‘cause I’ve seen zero of them on my own”), which has gotten me thinking about that idea I had awhile back: a group of superheroes based on the seven base SI units: meter, kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin, candela, and mole. The villains, of course, would have to be a group of people based on the Imperial units, like the foot, the pound, the gallon, etc. I think I’ve blogged about this before, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. I think it would be pretty entertaining.
Also: spring break is next week! That means the semester is almost half over. That’s scary.
Eigenblogger Presents: Random Nonsense
Alternate title: Claudia Has a Test Tomorrow and is Too Nervous to Study Anymore So You Get This.
- Hahaha. Oh, North Hill Centre.
- I have rediscovered the following two music videos and love them once again.
(strobe light warning around 2:26 in that last one)
- Nate, here’s that CMYK puzzle I was telling you about.
- If you say “Londonderry Air” just right, it sounds like you’re saying “London Derriere.”
- One of my favorite SMBC cartoons. I don’t know why it’s so hilarious to me, but it is.
- How could I have forgotten to embed Achievement Hunter’s “Hot Hoof” video on here? It’s one of my favorite Minecraft-related videos.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I’m done.
BLaldufoisdhkjdaghadkfh
CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SUN
YOU’LL BE DWARFED WHEN YOU ARE DONE
LAY YOUR FUSION CORE TO REST
DON’T YOU BURN NO MORE
(Ignore me, I’m feeling lousy and this was pretty much all that was in my head.)
Deep Thoughts
Did anyone ever check if Carmen Sandiego was in San Diego?
I wonder if she was thinking, “You fools, I’m giving you the biggest, most obvious hint, and you’re STILL NOT FINDING ME? Screw this, I’m changing my name to Carmen Miami and retiring.”
UPS vs. Canada
My mom shipped two packages from the US, since all my swag (read: boots and M&Ms) would not fit in my suitcase.
Now one of the packages is lost in the vast Canadian wilderness.
Or it’s in the back of a UPS truck somewhere. Same thing.
Also, I ordered a new backpack from L.L. Bean, but that apparently got lost in Ottawa somewhere, so who knows when that’s getting here.
And now for something completely unrelated: this pasta looks super tasty.
END!
Weather, u ok?
We’re having a freaking heat wave up here, y’all. It got up to about 57 degrees (Fahrenheit, of course!) during the middle of the day.
In January. In Calgary.
We went walking around downtown in short sleeves. It was pretty freaking great!
(Short blog.)
Broccles
LOOK AT MY FRIDGE
THAT IS ALL BROCCOLI
WHO LET ME LIVE ALONE?
Anyway.
Turns out everyone in Dr. Chen’s class got dropped from it the night before the class started, so we spent about 15 minutes of today’s class just being confused over why we’d all suddenly get dropped. More on this riveting story as it develops.
Also, I’m in a Muse mood tonight. I’ve posted this video on here before, but I’ll post it again because it features the song I’ve currently got stuck in my head.
*noises of relief*
Hokay. Back in Canada. Everything went smoothly and the remainder of the weekend was grand.
Totally unrelated: I’ve been super motivated to work on Arborhood now that I’ve actually gone back and done a quick re-read of things. I don’t write things in chronological order, especially with NaNoWriMo—whatever I feel like writing on a particular day, I write just below what I’d written the day before—so my first task is to actually organize everything into a somewhat chronological flow. Then I can start writing/rewriting.
But I do like the story. I like my tree characters. I like that it’s vastly better than my two previous NaNos, The President’s Barber and Whistler’s Father. Those were god awful.
Anyway. SCHOOL TOMORROW! *cue flailing*
Edit: And this. This is great.
Too bad Moscow isn’t named “Phileas”…
Because it’s Foggy as hell here today.
It actually looked like smoke this morning:
I had to walk to the U of I to do stats consulting stuff and the air seemed super smoky, especially over by my mom’s house. But I guess it was just fog?
This nonsense had better go away by Saturday morning. I will walk back up to Calgary if I have to.
A Picture of Me
So this is a password protected one, mainly because Screw it, let’s make it public. Why not.
I never feel very comfortable posting pictures of myself anywhere. Even updating my pic on my “About” page here or my profile pic on Facebook makes me…anxious.
But my hair was Pantene Pro V-ing so damn hard after my walk this afternoon that I had to try to get a shot of it before I showered (hence the lack of glasses and the fact that I’m just wearing my walking bra, haha). Give me a break, my hair is decent-looking maybe 3 out of the 365 days of the year—gotta catch it on film when you can. Also, the lighting worked very well here. I was standing in front of a window, haha.
And honestly, this is like the first picture of me that I actually kind of sort of don’t mind.
(UGH SORRY IGNORE MY SELF-INDULGENT PHOTO I AM ALL KINDS OF GROSS)
Guys. GUYS.
Look at this freaking tree. Look at how amazing it is. Look at how puny those guys look in comparison to it.
So cool.
I’m going to need to locate a copy of that National Geographic issue.
Edumacation
Hello again from 2015!
Let’s start the year off with some interesting numbers, eh? Specifically, some numbers regarding different fields of education in the United States.
The above.gif (source) shows the field type of Bachelor’s degrees by state, ranked by top percent of degree by field. I can’t read as fast as the .gif goes, so here are the screenshots for each type of degree. Click on the piccys to make them grow.
Business:
Education:
Psychology and Social Sciences:
Science and Engineering-Related:
Engineering:
Biological, Agriculture, and Environmental Science:
Liberal Arts and History:
Literature and Language:
Computers, Mathematics, and Statistics:
Visual and Performing Arts:
Communications:
Physical and Related Sciences:
Idaho’s good at Communications and Ag…and not much else, haha.
2015!
Happy New Year, people!
2015 is going to be a good one. I can feel it. I don’t get those super intuitive-driven feelings very often, but when I do, they’re usually right.
And my super intuitive-driven feeling about 2015 is that it’s going to be fantastic—and hopefully that applies to everyone I know!
Here’s to 365 days of blogging, music, and awesomeness.
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