Lights, Camera, Action

Not bad for a Monday, that's for sure.

Instead of getting up and going to Math Class this morning, I headed over to the lab to be an extra in the promotional video that is being taped all over campus this week. I mostly stood around off camera, watching Dr. Vakili get interviewed in the Spin Lab with some totally cool blue mood-lighting in the background. After his interview, we did a few shots standing around the spin lab, pretending to work. We did a shot at the conveyor belt, one at the LabView screen, one at the video monitor, and we even did a fake loading of the heat oven (it's a redundant name, but I didn't come up with it). Afterwards, we got to see the water tunnel in action, and got to stand in front of it while Dr. Vakili explained the flow instabilities around the weapons bay of a B-2 Stealth Bomber -that's what it looked like at least; we were really talking about the Trunk Monkey.

Lunch was a usual lunch in the office - turkey sandwich and a granola bar. I do like having the fridge up there though. I hated having to walk 100 yards to buy a Diet Pepsi. Speaking of those, they don't move very fast around UTSI. They're still selling Superbowl cans. Yikes.

During Inviscid this afternoon, the video guys came by again. With any luck, the video will make it appear that I'm one of the only students at the school. That'd be sweet. I don't think that's going to happen though. Tomorrow, they're going to have a helicopter buzz the school, and film from up there. How neat is that?

Technical Writing is tomorrow night, on Halloween. That's freaking-wonderful. If some punk kids egg the apartment, heads will roll. Hopefully I won't have much to complain about tomorrow, but we all know how likely that is.