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Jun. 10th, 2009 04:14 pmHaven't been writing much, so here's an update while I wait for the pseudoephedrine to kick in.
Things are generally busy and good, though K gave me his cold (not as bad as he had it - or at least better medicated) so I've still been running out of energy sooner than I want. I've been mostly over it for a week, but I've also been training a lot, and not getting as much sleep as my body would prefer. (Last night I put a down payment on the sleep I need, though. Sleep makes life so much better...)
Doing a lot of math. Trying to work out how to spend more time yet doing math. Life is short and there is an awful lot of math. (And I can really see the quality of my doing math fluctuate with how well rested I am.) But the math is good.
Still training with my neighbors - sequentially at the moment, which means I pretty much always train with the man, and stay to train with the woman if I have time. And trying to spend a reasonable amount of time on my own. And I'm teaching, and we've started the Thursday morning conditioning thing up again.
Speaking Chinese every day. Having talked a little with my labmate, but really need to talk more. (Until I started getting caught up on sleep I just wasn't up for it. She intimidates me. Which isn't fair - she's completely sweet and it's not her fault that I have a history of being neurotic about her first language.) Wrote more to Shifu. Someone on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
zhongwen pointed out that one can look up an article in wikipedia and then hit the 中文 link to see the same page in Chinese (if it exists). This is entirely too much fun, and has provided me with an excellent means of finding terminology like biomechanics (生物力学). Whee! So I mentioned this to K, who has been taking up Dutch, who then was looking at all the different languages (and gleefully noting that Esperanto has more articles rather a number of pretty established languages) mentioned back to me that there are more than 2000 articles in 古文. Oh, dear. (My labmate also enjoys guwen - though I'm not sure if she means 古文 proper or 文言文. Anyhow, much fun...) And someone else recommended a grammatical reference for modern, which would be excellent, because my textbooks are far away, and old, and really what I want is a reference text.
Research... my current strategy is that I have a couple-three priority projects, with specific short term goals as well as general long term ones, to keep my speculative side more or less in harness. Because, of course, speculative side jumps out and tries to take over, and I always have way more ideas and interesting things to check on than I possibly have time. Settling into a schedule - surgeries Mon, Tuesday and Friday, data collection at three days and seven days (this means I don't have to come in on weekends if I don't want to) and I'm trying to set aside explicit time for coding projects (currently this means the metabolism simulation and trying to get a handle on the legacy mesh models). And I have to sit down and organize my notes so I can present them to my PI in an organized fashion... one of my (new) side projects is incredibly tantalizing... (Keep in mind, my primary biomech project started as a side project. This is kind of like my life, in that my hobbies move in and take over.)
A lot of hardware failures. Well, okay, the mesh models are on an older machine that I'm trying to revive enough that I can get the data in a usable form. So no surprise that the monitor is iffy and both netcards are dead (or at least the fiber card isn't currently talking to the port, though this might be because of the current port settings). And the SD card in the camera I've been using for movies died yesterday, costing me a bunch of data. (Well, okay, just the data I'd just collected. Still.)
Farmer's market is in full swing. Yummy food.
Having a general sense of things shifting around beneath the surface. Will probably post about it some day. Likely to small filters anyway ;-) It's kind of occurred to me that there are a lot of things I'm insecure about. Which, uh, should be obvious. But I've been trying to do a lot, and my own decision not to let the insecurities tie me up sometimes made it harder to notice them. Maybe I can cut them off and burn them.
Things are generally busy and good, though K gave me his cold (not as bad as he had it - or at least better medicated) so I've still been running out of energy sooner than I want. I've been mostly over it for a week, but I've also been training a lot, and not getting as much sleep as my body would prefer. (Last night I put a down payment on the sleep I need, though. Sleep makes life so much better...)
Doing a lot of math. Trying to work out how to spend more time yet doing math. Life is short and there is an awful lot of math. (And I can really see the quality of my doing math fluctuate with how well rested I am.) But the math is good.
Still training with my neighbors - sequentially at the moment, which means I pretty much always train with the man, and stay to train with the woman if I have time. And trying to spend a reasonable amount of time on my own. And I'm teaching, and we've started the Thursday morning conditioning thing up again.
Speaking Chinese every day. Having talked a little with my labmate, but really need to talk more. (Until I started getting caught up on sleep I just wasn't up for it. She intimidates me. Which isn't fair - she's completely sweet and it's not her fault that I have a history of being neurotic about her first language.) Wrote more to Shifu. Someone on
zhongwen pointed out that one can look up an article in wikipedia and then hit the 中文 link to see the same page in Chinese (if it exists). This is entirely too much fun, and has provided me with an excellent means of finding terminology like biomechanics (生物力学). Whee! So I mentioned this to K, who has been taking up Dutch, who then was looking at all the different languages (and gleefully noting that Esperanto has more articles rather a number of pretty established languages) mentioned back to me that there are more than 2000 articles in 古文. Oh, dear. (My labmate also enjoys guwen - though I'm not sure if she means 古文 proper or 文言文. Anyhow, much fun...) And someone else recommended a grammatical reference for modern, which would be excellent, because my textbooks are far away, and old, and really what I want is a reference text.Research... my current strategy is that I have a couple-three priority projects, with specific short term goals as well as general long term ones, to keep my speculative side more or less in harness. Because, of course, speculative side jumps out and tries to take over, and I always have way more ideas and interesting things to check on than I possibly have time. Settling into a schedule - surgeries Mon, Tuesday and Friday, data collection at three days and seven days (this means I don't have to come in on weekends if I don't want to) and I'm trying to set aside explicit time for coding projects (currently this means the metabolism simulation and trying to get a handle on the legacy mesh models). And I have to sit down and organize my notes so I can present them to my PI in an organized fashion... one of my (new) side projects is incredibly tantalizing... (Keep in mind, my primary biomech project started as a side project. This is kind of like my life, in that my hobbies move in and take over.)
A lot of hardware failures. Well, okay, the mesh models are on an older machine that I'm trying to revive enough that I can get the data in a usable form. So no surprise that the monitor is iffy and both netcards are dead (or at least the fiber card isn't currently talking to the port, though this might be because of the current port settings). And the SD card in the camera I've been using for movies died yesterday, costing me a bunch of data. (Well, okay, just the data I'd just collected. Still.)
Farmer's market is in full swing. Yummy food.
Having a general sense of things shifting around beneath the surface. Will probably post about it some day. Likely to small filters anyway ;-) It's kind of occurred to me that there are a lot of things I'm insecure about. Which, uh, should be obvious. But I've been trying to do a lot, and my own decision not to let the insecurities tie me up sometimes made it harder to notice them. Maybe I can cut them off and burn them.
