Hawks

I'm currently an intramural ice hockey ref at my college. Pay is minimum wage, but you get double for scorekeeping, so I'm glad. First paycheck is paying for my gas money home for Thanksgiving (I only worked 6 hours this week, so $40, but it beats a sharp stick in the eye). Hopefully getting a paid summer internship at a lab near my home.

Hellz yes.

Do I count? I've never actually given myself a shot but use these things every three days: edit: dafudge? It's wikimedia, I picked that one specifically because I though it'd work.

*mwhahaha* and now you know what it's like to be me. Well, sort of anyway. IM hockey game tonight and thanksgiving break in two weeks. Thank god. Roommate is still asleep and I've already had one class today, and the pop machine was broken so I didn't get my daily diet mountain dew. I should really be doing chemistry...

Basically it's just 'history' - the blood sugars that get transmitted to the pump from the meter and then any and all boluses from the pump. I do have a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) that constantly takes the interstitial fluid sugar levels (generally pretty close to actual bg) and graphs them that I can upload but it came with a real USB cable, although it's got a funky end on it. I need to be doing either chem or engineering homework. But I'm doing neither...

Yep, I have a probably 16 year old laptop at home with an IR port on it. My insulin pump uses it to upload data to the computer, I've got a USB dongle for it at this point though. Actually I always had a USB dongle; this brand of pumps has used that since they came out in the early 1990s.

WHAT IS BROKEN WITH TIF?! Seriously that's freaking the crap out of me, no idea what's going on.

Was going to ask what school you're at, thought you might be at the same one as me, but I'm not on break right now... Just wasting time when I should be looking up if M means the concentration in a L or something else...

^ There's still the GLI (which State may or may not be playing in this year, I forget) and the Griffins, you live close enough (~1.5hours) to make a trip every once in a while. That's the only reason I regret going to Tech, too far from my beloved Griffins. But we put the beat down on LSSU last night, so I'm cool with it.

I went to a hockey game last night and won $100. I'm pretty happy about that, going to buy one of my team's new jerseys, they're freaking awesome. Can't decide if I want a black one, white one, or the alternate (gold) one. But they don't have them yet so I can worry about that later.

trying to take the log of a negative number to not result in imaginaryness. it's impossible, right? log(-3.5)/log(4.5)= ? For an empirical exponential formula using selected points from best fit for misc. data points.

Help me, oh ye of TIF. A guy I met a couple of weeks ago gave me his phone number, whilst saying do what you will with it. The whole thing was just super awkward, being at an awkward school for geeky people. Anyway, he's pretty cool but I honestly don't have time to do anything really because of my 18 credit hours of homework. I have no idea what I want and I haven't ever done this relationship thing before (as you probably know). I don't want to be rude and I do want to pursue it but I don't have the time, how do I get that across, while keeping that open?

I just realized my school colors are Hufflepuff's.(black/gold) This is a problem. Especially considering we're the smart geeky school and should match Ravenclaw. And I found out that I don't understand electron affinity and/or ionization energy so if someone knows things [how to explain it simply] please do so.

Someone down the hall is listening to "Good Time" by Owl City/Carly Rae Jepsen on repeat kind of loudly... Aw, it stopped. Would do my engineering homework for next week, but my prof doesn't post the slides until the middle of the day after, and doesn't show them long enough in class for us to actually reasonably write down the assignment. Of course she spent the entire hour and a half teaching us how to use Excel and ctrl+c... I was thoroughly disgusted that someone [my parents] are paying $1500 for that. (3 credit class, $500 a credit)

Mine cost me $175 or summat, without insurance it would have been like $400. Frames were $125, polycarb lenses $50, transitions $100, crizal antiglare another $100. Hooray for vision programs!

The current weather here is not what I signed up for but it's not horrible. Highs around 80 or so for the past couple of weeks, this is the stereotypical cold place, we get ridiculous amounts of snow and have sculpture building contests. Not happy about this but it could be worse... Only one class today in a couple of hours. Bored kind of a lot, but then pep band rehearsal and a lecture tonight...

Chucking a couple of smallish rocks at my brother when I was about twelve. It was some mixture of hormones and diabetes anger, plus he was just being stupid at the time. I think my parents were more concerned about me breaking a window (threw at him and he was by the house) than actually hitting him...

College classes officially start tomorrow and I don't know if I actually have a chem lab tomorrow... We haven't had a lecture yet, and one of the TAs told some of us (who signed up for a 'chem success' workshop) that the first week we wouldn't - I got an email saying that I don't have physics lab this week, but haven't gotten a reply from my chem lab teacher. Also idk about my recitation for chem either, that's pretty much all I have on tuesdays though. Thursdays are nice, no classes at all.

Hells yes. I love my school now.

This is very true.

I like Biology. I have no idea how to derail the current conversation though. I went to the store with my brother to get him a knee brace and we came home with Mountain Dew and StarCraft as well. Go figure.

Heh, I'm one of the crazy people tripsis is talking about. I read stuff from the kids section, stuff from the adult, and stuff from the teen. Most of it stems from different places categorizing books differently - my public library has Harry Potter under older kids [9-12] and Artemis Fowl in teen. Redwall, Rick Riordan's stuff, The Alchymist (sp), and such are in the 'old kids' area, and Tamora Pierce is in teen with Farmer (House of the Scorpion), Cashore (Fire), and Clare (Instruments trilogies). Ranger's Apprentice is under teen there but at B&N it's in kids, along with Artemis Fowl. Anthony Horowitz is somewhere in B&N and in teen in my library. Cirque du Freak is under teen, given the subject matter, but the writing style ought to be in kids... Realistically, the whole thing is personal preference. I understand the idea of 'new adult' but I'd just lump it in with teen/YA or adult depending on which end of the spectrum it falls into. There are teen labelled books that are a bit sketchy (can't think of one atm, but might say Graceling is a bit...) and obviously there're adult books without anything like that. The thing that really gets me is there's multiple shelves of 'teen paranormal romance' [at B&N] which is just sad. That's my two cents.

Eragon is alright but quickly goes downhill. You read Eragon, think, okay, this is his first book, I'll give him that, then read Eldest and go 'gosh this is awesome' then Brisingr just sucks and drags on and on and then Inheritance attempts to make up for it (granted it's been a while since I've read the last one, and I've only read it once unlike the others). The storyline is good in all of them except Brisingr, and the writing is really the best in Eldest. The one I really enjoy is Eldest, but you do need to read them all. I own the first three and have not bothered to buy Inheritance but probably will eventually. LoTR is a classic and is super good, so many things you miss if you only watch the movies. I'd start with the Hobbit especially because the movie's coming out this winter iirc.

Hockey tonight, crap is pretty much packed for school, and I bought Legos today. It is going to be a good day.

I'm getting a bachelor's in biomedical/materials engineering and possibly going on farther for research such and *I wanna have a PhD after my name* It's essential (in US at least) to do something when you get out of high school unless you're going into a skilled trade (machinist, CAD, etc). I have a few friends who were hired right out of high school to be trained to work their way up in a couple of local manufacturing/engineering companies who also will offer to pay for their college in time. If you get the right combo of high school classes and work ethic you can have a good job right out of high school, but if you're going for something a bit bigger you really do need that college degree right off the bat. Money is getting ridiculous (attending most expensive public school in the state at about $38k a year) and that's something I wish they would fix, you're screwing over the population that gets by but doesn't have a ton of money for extra stuff (ie the middle class) - we don't qualify for free money, and if you're average academically you don't get any scholarships either. Sure, junior college can help that (last I looked $240/cr hr vs $530/cr at my college) but it still costs a lot of money. Edit: My employment after graduation is pretty much guaranteed, [only chem eng in higher demand than biomed] this school (Michigan Tech) is pretty well known for engineering and base pay for any grad starts at $55k a year. That's why I chose there instead of Grand Valley State (my other option).