O Chewbacca, Where Art Thou?

The roofers are STILL working. But they've mutated from roofers to general contractors. They're like cockroaches, but with more power tools. That makes stomping on them a less-than-perfect solution. Today, however, I defiantly stayed in bed until 9:00. Score 1 for me.

Well, Vector Calc is starting to make a wee bit more sense now. We've finally gotten out of the Chapter 1 mire, and are stumbling on into Chapter 2 - multivariable calculus! This is actually stuff I kinda remember and / or might find useful. Partial derivatives are fun. However, I do think that if Dr. Kuperschmidt expects me to memorize derivatives like the secant-squared of x with respect to x, he's out of his proletarian mind. Also, he complained about my use of pencil & small handwriting. He even gave me his pen (actually, a marker, but who's keeping score?). That was weird.

Inviscid (or Inviskid) Flow is flowing right along (hahahaha). We're somewhere around Chapter 5. It's good that he's rederiving some of the more basic concepts in vector algebra notation. It's stuff we were supposed to learn in Calc III, but we didn't, so I'm not so strong in it. And I enjoy Dr. Vakili's class. And that's not just because he's my boss. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Today we had another meeting of our study group (The Superfriends) in the office that Heather & I share. Rich the Canadian guy joined us, which is cool. He says things like "zed," which is just cool. We covered a lot, and have decided that these meetings are way more productive than actual class.

Heat Transfer today was also pretty good. This class (and Dr. Antar will say it if you ask him) is really a Math Course in Engineer's clothing. Which is poor fashion sense on the part of the Math course, but that's neither here nor there. He started a big long solution method about a week ago, and we finally arrived at the solution today. I had really hoped there would be a solution, and I was fairly pleased with the result. This is really what I had in mind when I thought grad school classes. It's like being backstage during a really complicated play - the play being undergraduate Heat Transfer. I still can't quite do the homework, but its neat.

Technical Writing was another bowl full of stupid, with a side of asinine. And Chewbacca didn't even show up, so I had to hand-write our stupid group memo. I would have much rather had the wookie do the typing. I was not in the mood tonight either. At least Little Oprah and Hot Rod pull their weight. We wrapped up with some flagrant snarking from me and IMing from Jeff.

Subway has replaced their cheesesteak with steak'n'cheese. I think I can tell the difference, but then, I can't tell the difference between brown and maroon.