Strangeness
Nov. 20th, 2004 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meanfreepathThe luggage situation was finally resolved when my suitcase got delivered to Ben West the next evening. When I opened up the bag, there was a card inside saying that it had been opened and searched by TSA agents. I wonder what could have aroused their suspicion; there was nothing inside besides clothes, dress shoes, some papers I picked up at the APS meeting, and two toy APS cubes. Perhaps the toy cubes were responsible; maybe they looked like blocks of plastic explosive on the x-ray scanner.
This has been a weird morning... I got issued my turnout gear on Thursday night so now I can respond to the fire horn. The gear is very bulky and not very comfortable (e.g. no one is ever going to set a record in the 100 meter dash while wearing one of those things). So this morning around 8:30 I woke to the sound of the horn. I tore out of bed, threw on some clothes, and started running towards the firehouse. I ran in, saw that none of the apparatus had left, and started putting on my equipment. I got as far as starting to get the suspenders of the trousers up when another volunteer told me it was probably a false alarm. Indeed, there had been an ambulance call for which someone had mistakenly sounded the fire horn. So nothing really happened. At the least I got a point for showing up and some exercise out of it. :)
I then went back to bed and slept in until 11:00. Sometimes I'm just so tired I feel like I could sleep forever.
Prereg starts Monday. I still need to figure out what I'm taking. The one definite is quantum; I will probably also do two out of the following three: stat mech, algebra seminar, complex variables at Bryn Mawr. Probably no advanced lab - I don't feel like I've gotten much out of it this semester. And, possibly Donna Jo's Movement and Cognition class. Is it unethical to sign up for a class one knows to be rather flaky when one could be taking something much more academically substantive like history, political science, economics, or literature?
This has been a weird morning... I got issued my turnout gear on Thursday night so now I can respond to the fire horn. The gear is very bulky and not very comfortable (e.g. no one is ever going to set a record in the 100 meter dash while wearing one of those things). So this morning around 8:30 I woke to the sound of the horn. I tore out of bed, threw on some clothes, and started running towards the firehouse. I ran in, saw that none of the apparatus had left, and started putting on my equipment. I got as far as starting to get the suspenders of the trousers up when another volunteer told me it was probably a false alarm. Indeed, there had been an ambulance call for which someone had mistakenly sounded the fire horn. So nothing really happened. At the least I got a point for showing up and some exercise out of it. :)
I then went back to bed and slept in until 11:00. Sometimes I'm just so tired I feel like I could sleep forever.
Prereg starts Monday. I still need to figure out what I'm taking. The one definite is quantum; I will probably also do two out of the following three: stat mech, algebra seminar, complex variables at Bryn Mawr. Probably no advanced lab - I don't feel like I've gotten much out of it this semester. And, possibly Donna Jo's Movement and Cognition class. Is it unethical to sign up for a class one knows to be rather flaky when one could be taking something much more academically substantive like history, political science, economics, or literature?
