Farewell, Planet Pluto

I have to say, I'm liking my grad school schedule. Today all I had was a 1:00 class, and that was very nice. Sleeping in always good.

Today was also the annual UTSI Student-Faculty-Staff-Vagrant picnic. It was supposed to start at 11:00 am, so Jeff and I figured we could show up a little after noon, grab some free food, and cruise over to class with no sweat. Shows what we know. We waited in line for what seemed like forever. After we got served (which was about as inefficient as pure democracy), we barely had time to inhale the barbecue and for Jeff to lose his phone.

The theme of the picnic was "Farewell Planet Pluto." In case you haven't heard, it has recently stopped being a planet. Now its just a plain-old orbital body out past Neptune (sort of). I don't really care one way or another. Most of the mnemonic devices are going to need reworking. That's a pain.

Heat Transfer - looks like I lucked out again, for the most part. Dr. Antar has just about the best professorial (I'm pretty sure that's a word) attitude at the school. He'd fit right in at CBU. Also, no mid-term and the lowest grade is a C. Sweet. The one annoying thing is that he's only covering conduction, and ignoring convection & radiation. This is apparently something he's been doing for years, and never thought to update his catalog information. The subject matter isn't the problem; it's the fact that I've bought a generally useless book (we're using the other one that I don't have yet). Selling it back myself is just not worth the trouble.

I think I've found a gym to join, Harvey's Gym. I think it's owned by a six-foot invisible rabbit, but I have no way to prove that. I'm going to call them tomorrow and see what I need to do to start a membership.

Disc golf tomorrow in Winchester. If we're lucky there won't be any lost discs or rolled ankles. Maybe more tomorrow.