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dchenesI've got to stop thinking about other things while I'm putting things together. I keep having to remind myself that I don't want hand soap on my toothbrush, and I just came within taking the lid off the wrong container of putting butter in my coffee.
It keeps getting progressively chillier here; we've gone from 68 on Friday to 57 today, and they say 56 tomorrow. How many degrees does the temperature have to change before the average person notices, I wonder? I couldn't tell you the difference between 56 and 57, and I classify anything lower than 10 degrees as snot-freezing weather and leave it at that.
I wonder why the English used on patents is stuck in the 1800s? I could probably find out if I wanted to look up the history of the US Patent Office, but I don't. (And I bet it gives translators screaming fits trying to translate patents for things like gene therapy techniques, because it's a combination of brand new terminology and methods and very old language. It's sort of like trying to write modern novels in Chaucer's English, only not quite so bad.)
I wish I could get over this whatever-it-is that's making writing my analysis so tough to get into. I'm getting tired of fighting it every time I try.
It's nice of OhioLink to give me a week's grace period between the overdue notice and the time the fines start accruing, but they don't actually tell you that anywhere. You take the books back and ask what you owe on them, and it turns out to be nothing.
I'd really like to finish my glossary today. It turns out I didn't have to do it in MultiTerm in the first place, because my advisor doesn't use it and thus wouldn't know what to do with it if it bit her. I suppose it's good that I know how to play with the new version, but I wish I had been able to do most of my work in the old version, which would have made my life easier. MultiTerm seems to be one of those programs which, despite periodic improvements and new releases and whatnot, has never quite been invented yet.
It keeps getting progressively chillier here; we've gone from 68 on Friday to 57 today, and they say 56 tomorrow. How many degrees does the temperature have to change before the average person notices, I wonder? I couldn't tell you the difference between 56 and 57, and I classify anything lower than 10 degrees as snot-freezing weather and leave it at that.
I wonder why the English used on patents is stuck in the 1800s? I could probably find out if I wanted to look up the history of the US Patent Office, but I don't. (And I bet it gives translators screaming fits trying to translate patents for things like gene therapy techniques, because it's a combination of brand new terminology and methods and very old language. It's sort of like trying to write modern novels in Chaucer's English, only not quite so bad.)
I wish I could get over this whatever-it-is that's making writing my analysis so tough to get into. I'm getting tired of fighting it every time I try.
It's nice of OhioLink to give me a week's grace period between the overdue notice and the time the fines start accruing, but they don't actually tell you that anywhere. You take the books back and ask what you owe on them, and it turns out to be nothing.
I'd really like to finish my glossary today. It turns out I didn't have to do it in MultiTerm in the first place, because my advisor doesn't use it and thus wouldn't know what to do with it if it bit her. I suppose it's good that I know how to play with the new version, but I wish I had been able to do most of my work in the old version, which would have made my life easier. MultiTerm seems to be one of those programs which, despite periodic improvements and new releases and whatnot, has never quite been invented yet.
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