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1) I've had Coulton's song about Mandelbrot stuck in my head for three days now. This would probably be more useful if I were actually any good at math. Catchy, though.
2) Tomorrow is the Greek placement test. I've been studying dutifully for it all week.
2.1) And apparently, with sufficient motivation, I actually can spend four hours, largely undistracted, focusing intently on vocab cards.
2.1.1) Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have resulted in much additional vocab acquisition.
2.2) Oh, and apparently the placement test might or might not count as an official placement test, because the department is waffling on this point. And might make me take another placement test just before classes start. But they're not sure yet!
2.3) Did I mention the test is tomorrow?
3) I think I need to find a way to go climbing at the south gym more often, because swapping between bouldering and top-rope completely throws me off balance if it's been a while. The differences aren't huge, but they're significant enough to really matter, and they tend to throw me off wildly if I'm not thinking about the fact that the differences exist while trying to climb one way while in the mindset of the other.
3.1) Though I wish the south gym wouldn't make all its bouldering routes so reach-y.
3.2) Also noted: there is a Fear Line on walls, which comes lower as the wall gets more overhang. It's kinda like the Bouldering Line, except instead of it being where the gym says not to climb further without gear for reasons of safety, it's the point at which my brain insists this is the case.
4) Livejournal being down all the time has driven most of my random comments over to Google+.
5) I don't want to study Greek this afternoon. I've been studying the same material for a week straight, and I'm beginning to believe if it's not in my head by now, it's not going to be by tomorrow. I want to go write a weird little short story in the second person. Without much plot.
5.1) But I should study Greek anyway.
5.2) I should also review my Viable Paradise notes from the plot lecture.
5.3) But Greek first.
2) Tomorrow is the Greek placement test. I've been studying dutifully for it all week.
2.1) And apparently, with sufficient motivation, I actually can spend four hours, largely undistracted, focusing intently on vocab cards.
2.1.1) Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have resulted in much additional vocab acquisition.
2.2) Oh, and apparently the placement test might or might not count as an official placement test, because the department is waffling on this point. And might make me take another placement test just before classes start. But they're not sure yet!
2.3) Did I mention the test is tomorrow?
3) I think I need to find a way to go climbing at the south gym more often, because swapping between bouldering and top-rope completely throws me off balance if it's been a while. The differences aren't huge, but they're significant enough to really matter, and they tend to throw me off wildly if I'm not thinking about the fact that the differences exist while trying to climb one way while in the mindset of the other.
3.1) Though I wish the south gym wouldn't make all its bouldering routes so reach-y.
3.2) Also noted: there is a Fear Line on walls, which comes lower as the wall gets more overhang. It's kinda like the Bouldering Line, except instead of it being where the gym says not to climb further without gear for reasons of safety, it's the point at which my brain insists this is the case.
4) Livejournal being down all the time has driven most of my random comments over to Google+.
5) I don't want to study Greek this afternoon. I've been studying the same material for a week straight, and I'm beginning to believe if it's not in my head by now, it's not going to be by tomorrow. I want to go write a weird little short story in the second person. Without much plot.
5.1) But I should study Greek anyway.
5.2) I should also review my Viable Paradise notes from the plot lecture.
5.3) But Greek first.