part GROWF and part good stuff
Sep. 19th, 2004 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI think I need a new CD drive, or at the very least a new driver for the existing drive. The one I've got is officially upgefuckt. About every other time I try to rip a CD, the drive hangs, which hangs iTunes, and then proceeds to hang the entire system if I try to do anything else while iTunes is giving me the Spinning Beachball of Death. I have to force restart the computer in order to get it un-hung, and then I have to restart it again to get it to recognize the CD drive. On top of that, every time I try to burn a CD, it gets about halfway through and then spits the CD out and tells me there was an error and it can't burn the CD. This means I can't back anything up either, because it won't burn backup CDs. ARGH.
On a more cheerful note, since I spent Friday completely unable to get anything done (and feeling fairly awful besides), I've spent large chunks of this weekend doing academic things, to wit:
Draft version of this week's translation and final version of last week's. Anybody out there know anything about shallow well jet pump systems? I'm trying to decide whether there's a typo in the original text or not. It starts talking about multiple motors at one point, but as far as I can tell, there's only one motor in the system, and that's the one in the pump. The only thing I can think of is that it's a generalization, and it's saying "make sure the supply voltage to the motor doesn't exceed its capacity, and make sure any motors you use are properly grounded".
I also got a LOT of composition exercises done. This week we had 90 we don't have to hand in (we go through them in class), and 80 we do have to hand in. Fortunately this week we're messing around with adverbs, so the sentences are shorter and it isn't as much work as it has been messing around with verbs. The undergrads only have to do the odd-numbered exercises to hand in, so they only have 40 to do. I also still have to do two rewrites of the composition I wrote two weeks ago, from two different perspectives. That's not quite as screamingly urgent; I can do one tomorrow and one on Tuesday. (The general rule of thumb for this course is, if I spend more than 7 1/2 hours per week on it, I'm doing too much work. I don't think I've gotten there yet, but sometimes it feels like it.)
On top of all that stuff, I saved my refrigerator from a possible biological experiment and used up some vegetables making chicken soup. It turned out to have too many onions in it, but I got around that. I left the onion bits large enough to pick out, because with me and onions I either have to be able to eat around them, or I have to cut them up small enough that I don't notice them. I like the flavor in other things, but I can't stand actual onions. So anyway, I picked most of the onions out of the soup and froze half of it. It remains to be seen whether I'll remember I have it in the freezer the next time I'm starving and don't want to cook anything.
I seem to want to go to bed, and it's only 9:30. My brain aches and my back aches. Harumpf.
On a more cheerful note, since I spent Friday completely unable to get anything done (and feeling fairly awful besides), I've spent large chunks of this weekend doing academic things, to wit:
Draft version of this week's translation and final version of last week's. Anybody out there know anything about shallow well jet pump systems? I'm trying to decide whether there's a typo in the original text or not. It starts talking about multiple motors at one point, but as far as I can tell, there's only one motor in the system, and that's the one in the pump. The only thing I can think of is that it's a generalization, and it's saying "make sure the supply voltage to the motor doesn't exceed its capacity, and make sure any motors you use are properly grounded".
I also got a LOT of composition exercises done. This week we had 90 we don't have to hand in (we go through them in class), and 80 we do have to hand in. Fortunately this week we're messing around with adverbs, so the sentences are shorter and it isn't as much work as it has been messing around with verbs. The undergrads only have to do the odd-numbered exercises to hand in, so they only have 40 to do. I also still have to do two rewrites of the composition I wrote two weeks ago, from two different perspectives. That's not quite as screamingly urgent; I can do one tomorrow and one on Tuesday. (The general rule of thumb for this course is, if I spend more than 7 1/2 hours per week on it, I'm doing too much work. I don't think I've gotten there yet, but sometimes it feels like it.)
On top of all that stuff, I saved my refrigerator from a possible biological experiment and used up some vegetables making chicken soup. It turned out to have too many onions in it, but I got around that. I left the onion bits large enough to pick out, because with me and onions I either have to be able to eat around them, or I have to cut them up small enough that I don't notice them. I like the flavor in other things, but I can't stand actual onions. So anyway, I picked most of the onions out of the soup and froze half of it. It remains to be seen whether I'll remember I have it in the freezer the next time I'm starving and don't want to cook anything.
I seem to want to go to bed, and it's only 9:30. My brain aches and my back aches. Harumpf.
