Nineteen
Today was my first “longer run” (more than 17 miles) since my sartorius injury. I did 19, which is a far cry from a marathon distance, but I’m hoping I can slowly build back up to that.
Though I can already tell that I’m going to be super sore tomorrow.
Odd
You know the strangest thing about all those old home movies that I’ve been watching/editing?
The fact that I used to have friends.
Like…that concept seems so foreign to me now. I had people who wanted to come to my birthday parties. I had people I hung out with and stood next to during all our Christmas and spring concerts in elementary school.
I mean, I guess if you go through six years of schooling with approximately the same group of 23 or so people, you’re bound to bond with some of them. But it’s just interesting to see that I used to actually be able to maintain friendships. I don’t remember when that lost priority for me, but at some point it certainly did.
Odd news.
Ravioli Rigatoni
Me: I am so busy this semester that I don’t even have time to make dinner like five out of the seven days of the week.
Also me: I really want to do NaNoWriMo in November.
H I L A R I TY
It’s Like a Reward
So for whatever reason, I’ve decided that I’m not allowed to decorate my office door with cartoons and the like until (unless) I get tenure.
That’s…that’s just the rule.
BUT, while I was running this morning, I thought of a cool way to display said cartoons should I actually get tenure. I could make like a little Cartesian plane on my door with one axis that goes from “no math” to “math” and another axis that goes from “not obscure” to “obscure” and then plot a bunch of cartoons according to these to criteria.
If that’s not a perfect way to display cartoons in a math/stats department, then there isn’t one.
A Few Days Late But…
This is really interesting.
I know it’s been 20+ years, but I can still very distinctly remember how that morning unfolded and how all we did during that whole week in school was watch the news.
Mileage Update:
I’m at (approximately) 4,500 miles for the year! At this pace, I’ll hit 5,000 miles way earlier than I usually do and may have a chance at 6,000.
CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP
Chaosball
Yeah, this has been a pretty wild season for many reasons. This video sums it up very nicely.
I’m sure more insanity is to come.
Ugh.
This is hilarious (due to his reactions and voice) but also really depressing. And kind of disgusting.
HAHAHAHA
“Coug it” has a Wikipedia page and I am LOSING MY MIND
“Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.” I love it.
Hexa Dexa
Back in, I think, January of 2020, I decided that I wanted to get a body scan to determine my percentages of muscle, body fat, water, etc. I found a location pretty close to where I live that does a BodyMetrix Ultrasound, which apparently gives similar accuracy to a DEXA scan and booked an appointment for early April.
Well, thanks to our good old friend Covid, that appointment never happened.
I recently looked up the location again and it looks like you can get the scan while wearing a mask (and the technician will also wear a mask if you ask them to, which is a plus). So I’m up for maybe making a new appointment and getting scanned!
It may not happen this semester because OH MY GOD I am so busy, but maybe early next year.
E-SURVEY
1. E is for EMAIL: When is the last time your personal email inbox was completely empty?
HA. Never.
2. E is for EAR: Do you consider your hearing to be better than average, average or worse than average?
It used to be WAY better than average. Like, I had to wear earplugs in band (and got made fun of incessantly for it, too). I attribute it to my body compensating for missing another one of my senses. But I’ve beaten the life out of my eardrums with music over the years, so I’d say my hearing is probably average now.
3. E is for EARLY: Are you generally early to appointments, late or right on time?
I try to be early by at least five minutes.
4. E is for EDUCATION: Which grade of school (or year of college) did you find most difficult and why?
Tenth grade sucked, but that was mainly for non-school reasons. Though that year I had to take biology (which I hated) and Algebra II (which I REALLY hated) AND I had a zero-hour class, so it was difficult due to those features as well.
5. E is for EGG: How do you normally eat your eggs?
Scrambled with a little bit of cheese, milk, and pepper.
6. E is for ESSAY: What was the longest blog post you’ve written?
Probably this one.
How To Lose Friends and De-Influence People:
Make spaghetti but use lasagna noodles instead of spaghetti noodles.
Make lasagna but use spaghetti noodles instead of lasagna noodles.
That’s my profound thought for the day.
I hate everything.
An Eventful Day
Today involved:
- A migraine upon waking up (always fun!!!!)
- A TON of smoke in the air and, along with it, a very smoky run this morning. I tried wearing a mask for part of it but running in a mask is freaking hard, yo
- The first day of classes which, for me, just involved ASHA (or standing around while Rob introduced ASHA, as I’m teaching next semester and he’s taking charge of this semester)
- An at-home vet check-up for Pepper (just because taking her to the vet seemed to really stress her out)
I hope this isn’t indicative of how the rest of the semester will go.
Edit from mid-October: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SMELL YA LATER?????? ? ??? ?
Hi.
This is a really great article that discusses both the sense of smell (and the loss of it) and how we as a species have kind of lost our connection to food due to how we treat it as a “product” and have removed the sensory experiences of it.
Factorial Factory
BOOSH
As some of the comments say, a number of these could be really useful in understanding/expressing series. Unfortunately, I’ve never heard of any of these being explicitly taught.
BOOM BOOM SHAKALAKA BOOM
I DON’T EVEN KNOW
First, go to this nifty online random-letter generator. Set the “number of random letter sequences to generate” to 1. Set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 1. Leave the “letters to choose from” how it is and click the button. You’ll get a rather non-dramatic one letter. Use that letter to begin all your answers to the 5 questions below. Alternately, if you find that boring, you could set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 5, thereby giving you five letters, a different one for each question.
What random letter was generated by the online random-letter generator (this doesn’t really count as one of your five questions)?
My letters are F I L R S. Let’s do it!
What article of clothing, whose name begins with the letter, have you never worn?
F – Fur coat
I – Infinity scarf
L – Leather pants
R – Romper
S – Shawl
What book, whose title begins with the letter, are you looking forward to reading?
F – Finnegans Wake (Joyce) (I’m actually terrified of this book, but it’s the only “F” I have left on my list, haha)
I – Invisible Man (Ellison)
L – Les Miserables (Hugo)
R – The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
S – Scoop (Waugh)
What mode of transportation, whose name begins with the letter, seems like it would be fun?
F – Ferry
I – …Ice skating?
L – Leaping (that’s a mode of transportation, fight me)
R – Rocket
S – Scooter
What form of exercise, whose name begins with the letter, have you recently engaged in?
F – Fast walking
I – (I have no idea, haha)
L – Lunges (in physical therapy)
R – Running!
S – Squats (also physical therapy)
What fictional character, whose name begins with the letter, would be good company on a long trip?
F – Fogg (as in Phileas)
I – Iron Man!
L – Lumiere (I LIKE HIM A LOT, OKAY?)
R – Rex (either the dino from Toy Story or the dino from We’re Back!…both are good)
S – Starbuck
Ugh
Had my first migraine in a while today. I don’t know why the frequency has dropped off so much lately, but I’ll certainly take it. Last year around this same time I was having one almost every other week. I don’t think I’ve had one since March this year.
I wish I knew what triggered them.
Submitted.
And now we wait.
Fish
Got a little fisheye lens for my phone. So of course I had to test it with Pepper.
She’s a cutie.
That is all.
Font Face
I don’t feel like this happened.
*checks word*
Nope, still freaking Calibri. But let’s compare, shall we?
Calibri on top, Aptos on bottom.
I don’t like the way the lowercase “L” looks in the Aptos font and I don’t like the shorter ascenders/descenders in Aptos, but I do appreciate that Aptos keeps the double-storey font type consistent when you make the text italicized. That was something that really bugged me with Calibri.
Also, I like that Aptos is…blockier? I don’t know if that’s the right way to describe it, but it’s a bit more “in your face,” which I like.
So eh.
Blog Facelift
I’ve redone some of the custom CSS for my blog. Observe:
Before:
After:
That’s one of my OLD headers on there; I don’t know if I like it. I don’t like the other one anymore. Maybe I’ll make a new one.
Well those were weird dreams.
Not so much weird, but…vivid? Realistic?
DREAM THE ONE:
I don’t remember too much about this one, but I was renting/staying in some cabin at a campsite. I don’t know if I was alone or not, but the cabin was pretty big. I had all my stuff in a big pile and I was worried about someone coming along and stealing it. Then at some point two guys came in and were making it very clear that they were going to shoot me if I didn’t let them have the cabin and all my stuff inside. It was unnerving.
DREAM THE TWO:
I remember this one much more clearly. I was walking around in Calgary with Nate, and he told me to go on ahead on the path and he’d catch up later. We were walking on some part of the bike path system that we were both unfamiliar with, but I went ahead anyway. The path went up away from the main roads and into this hilly wooded section. I had to pee (in the dream), so I looked back to see if Nate is close to catching up to me. He’s not, so I go up the side of the hill to try to find a tree to pee behind.
Up at the top of the hill is this big noise reduction fence (I think there’s a highway somewhere on the other side?) and there’s a house on the other side of the fence. A guy is standing on the deck absolutely hacking his lungs out, coughing so loud that it’s echoing across the whole city. I think (in the dream) that I need to tell Nate that I’ve found the mysterious source of all the coughing that you can hear everywhere in the city.
Then at some point the dream shifts a little bit and Nate, my high school band teacher (Mr. Garrett), three teen girls, and myself are all sitting in an abandoned camper trailer that’s somewhere in those wooded hills that I was just in. One of the teens sprained her ankle, and the rest of us are upset (though aren’t explicitly saying it) because we all want to do stuff that involves having two working ankles.
Eventually, Mr. Garrett and the teen girls leave, so Nate and I make out in the abandoned camper trailer until we hear Mr. Garrett coming back. He comes through the door and I’m like, “How are you, Mr. Garrett?” and he’s like “I could be better!” I guess he tried to take Injured Ankle Girl home so she wouldn’t ruin our fun, but she didn’t want to leave, so she came limping in behind Mr. Garrett and just sat sadly on a chair.
Then I woke up.
This was a 100% forgettable dream theme-wise, but it felt SO real and was very vivid. I almost want to make the camper trailer in the Sims and live in it, haha.
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