I got home from work at 12:30am tonight. Whee.
Well, let's see, what did I do today? I woke up late, went to work. Ate Subway food for lunch. Because nobody was around over break, but we had plenty of NYTimes sitting around, I got to do today's crossword while everyone else did friday's. (I did about 80% of it before giving up out of apathy.)
I spent most of today at work catching up on these "homework" thingies from a few weeks ago. They decided they will "graduate" people who have done 9 assignments. Well, when I got home tonight I have 9 assignments "done", although it's up to the instructors whether I have done them enough. Shrug. I wasted an hour going to a meeting for a team I still haven't done any work on in the past two months, but, oh well.
I went to Kiltie Band. It was fun! We played through A Christmas Festival, which I love even though it's really hard in a lot of places, mostly because it's so fast. But, it was fun, and the band has a lot of traditions with the song, like bouncing up and down and ringing mouthpieces as bells and singing Jingle Bells and all. The BAQ was like, "If you spliced the genes of Carl Meister and Nick Jong, what sort of creature would you get?" And so Ed held up the BAQ clipboards and Nick ran over to get one! It was so funny, because he had no idea that the question was about him. Carl wasn't there at rehearsal, so I answered his traditional "No." for him and all. Also, Mr. Gerlach (our band director) had this thing called "Flat Stanley" with him. It was a posterboard paper person, that apparently is part of a project in a geography class his niece is teaching. The kids are supposed to make Flat Stanleys and send them out to people in different cities and get pictures and information about the cities they send them to. So apparently Mr. Gerlach was the lucky recipient of one of them. He had gone around Pittsburgh taking pictures of Flat Stanley at random places, and so he decided to take a picture of Flat Stanley with 30 Kiltie Band members. It was cute. They also did a shot of Flat Stanley in a sousaphone. Whee!
After Kiltie I ate O fries with Nick and Brian and some other guy and discussed Harry Potter, and then played pinball. Despite the MM machine being really off-tilt, I got a 30 million point game, so I guess that's good.
Went to Wean, but didn't find Roman or Carl. Found![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
combinator instead and got to talk to him, which is always fun! Even though he usually doesn't seem to actually want to talk to me. Shrug. Anyway, I went back to work and finished all of the "homework"s. Carl and I did intermittent Japanese studying all day... well, more like me showing him the test site I found and he lecturing me about grammar forms such as the "funky passive" as he called it - I think this test called it the "suffering passive", wherein you have sentence forms that use the passive to demonstrate that an unwanted effect occurred. We used the sentence "The dog ate my homework" as an example. It became "My homework was eaten by the dog", and then "The dog eating my homework was done unto me," or something to that effect. I love Japanese grammar, really.
Also, while waiting for data to be generated for stuff at work I had an enlightening zephyr discussion with jweill about Japanese and stuff. What was cool was that he told me how to find the OGS DDR party pictures on the server, which I did. It was neat to see pictures from the tournament, too. Looking at the brackets though, it looks like it was a lot of dumb luck in who got paired up at the beginning. As in, someone I think is an excellent DDR player got the dumb luck of being paired up with the eventual winner in the first round, so he was eliminated then. That sucks.
I think I will play a little Simcity and then go to sleep, or maybe study Japanese some more, or something. I dunno. I ought to play DDR but I feel too physically exhausted (tsukareta) as opposed to sleepy (nemutai). Shrug.
Also, the title of this entry is not a joke. I was doodling kanji at the meeting I was stuck in and found I could not write the word "study". How dumb is that?
Well, let's see, what did I do today? I woke up late, went to work. Ate Subway food for lunch. Because nobody was around over break, but we had plenty of NYTimes sitting around, I got to do today's crossword while everyone else did friday's. (I did about 80% of it before giving up out of apathy.)
I spent most of today at work catching up on these "homework" thingies from a few weeks ago. They decided they will "graduate" people who have done 9 assignments. Well, when I got home tonight I have 9 assignments "done", although it's up to the instructors whether I have done them enough. Shrug. I wasted an hour going to a meeting for a team I still haven't done any work on in the past two months, but, oh well.
I went to Kiltie Band. It was fun! We played through A Christmas Festival, which I love even though it's really hard in a lot of places, mostly because it's so fast. But, it was fun, and the band has a lot of traditions with the song, like bouncing up and down and ringing mouthpieces as bells and singing Jingle Bells and all. The BAQ was like, "If you spliced the genes of Carl Meister and Nick Jong, what sort of creature would you get?" And so Ed held up the BAQ clipboards and Nick ran over to get one! It was so funny, because he had no idea that the question was about him. Carl wasn't there at rehearsal, so I answered his traditional "No." for him and all. Also, Mr. Gerlach (our band director) had this thing called "Flat Stanley" with him. It was a posterboard paper person, that apparently is part of a project in a geography class his niece is teaching. The kids are supposed to make Flat Stanleys and send them out to people in different cities and get pictures and information about the cities they send them to. So apparently Mr. Gerlach was the lucky recipient of one of them. He had gone around Pittsburgh taking pictures of Flat Stanley at random places, and so he decided to take a picture of Flat Stanley with 30 Kiltie Band members. It was cute. They also did a shot of Flat Stanley in a sousaphone. Whee!
After Kiltie I ate O fries with Nick and Brian and some other guy and discussed Harry Potter, and then played pinball. Despite the MM machine being really off-tilt, I got a 30 million point game, so I guess that's good.
Went to Wean, but didn't find Roman or Carl. Found
combinator instead and got to talk to him, which is always fun! Even though he usually doesn't seem to actually want to talk to me. Shrug. Anyway, I went back to work and finished all of the "homework"s. Carl and I did intermittent Japanese studying all day... well, more like me showing him the test site I found and he lecturing me about grammar forms such as the "funky passive" as he called it - I think this test called it the "suffering passive", wherein you have sentence forms that use the passive to demonstrate that an unwanted effect occurred. We used the sentence "The dog ate my homework" as an example. It became "My homework was eaten by the dog", and then "The dog eating my homework was done unto me," or something to that effect. I love Japanese grammar, really.Also, while waiting for data to be generated for stuff at work I had an enlightening zephyr discussion with jweill about Japanese and stuff. What was cool was that he told me how to find the OGS DDR party pictures on the server, which I did. It was neat to see pictures from the tournament, too. Looking at the brackets though, it looks like it was a lot of dumb luck in who got paired up at the beginning. As in, someone I think is an excellent DDR player got the dumb luck of being paired up with the eventual winner in the first round, so he was eliminated then. That sucks.
I think I will play a little Simcity and then go to sleep, or maybe study Japanese some more, or something. I dunno. I ought to play DDR but I feel too physically exhausted (tsukareta) as opposed to sleepy (nemutai). Shrug.
Also, the title of this entry is not a joke. I was doodling kanji at the meeting I was stuck in and found I could not write the word "study". How dumb is that?
