Catching Up

Ok so maybe I’ve been slacking a bit on the whole blog thing but hey, I’ve been busy. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. School has been a bit nuts. It’s really a lot of work. In chemistry we were covering quantum mechanics and the electromagnetic spectrum. I had a really hard time grasping a lot of the concepts behind it. Once I got into doing the work most of the math came pretty easily but I’m still not entirely certain that I understand exactly what it is that I’m doing. Fortunately we’ve moved on from that and we’re working on bonding and chemical compounds. That, I can understand. It’s nice to have a clue what I’m doing. I just had my first test in trigonometry. It covered the unit circle and the beginnings of the trigonometric functions. I got 92/100, which I feel pretty good about. My engineering class is also going pretty well. My project group hasn’t met much but we’ve done some talking in class and things seem to be moving forward slowly. We’re meeting tonight to get a few things really going. I’m really excited to get moving on that project. We’re a couple tests into that class with another one coming this Friday. I’ve found that I struggle with the tests in that class a little bit. I seem to focus on learning the wrong parts of the chapters and then not knowing the stuff that’s actually on the test. The first one I got 90/110 which is decent but I feel like I can do better. I’m going to have to adjust my study habits for that class in particular. 

A couple weeks ago I went on a hike through Bells Canyon. That is an absolutely gorgeous hike. I really enjoyed it. I’d like to go back there on a day that I have more time and go all the way up to the second reservoir. I was planning on doing Mt. Olympus this last weekend but that didn’t quite pan out. :( Hopefully I’ll be able to do it before the end of the year. That didn’t stop me from having a great weekend though. Had a date on Friday night. Made dinner and went geocaching. It was a lot of fun. :) Then on Saturday I did a 5K mud run; The Dirty Dash. That was quite the experience. The course had several big mud pits, climbing walls, bales to hurdle, pipes to climb through, one long mud pit you had to army crawl through and a giant slip ‘n slide. I have never been so dirty in my entire life. I don’t know what my time was because we only got timed as a team but I had a blast. I hope to participate again next year. Then Sunday was Chaz’s birthday party. We got together and his/Rachel’s apartment for a few drinks and watched Star Wars. 

Trig was rather frustrating yesterday. Last Wednesday my teacher didn’t show up so after waiting about 20 minutes, I left. Turns out, the rest of the class went down the front stairs and met our teacher as he was on his way up. He then proceeded to give the lecture without so much as a “Oh, sorry I’m late” and then yesterday, carried on as if nothing was amiss. Apparently over the weekend we were supposed to make detailed graphs of all six trig functions. The whole thing was really rather frustrating and I left class feeling really overwhelmed (an increasingly common feeling in my life.) Fortunately, I had the good sense to go home, eat dinner, watch a documentary on the development of the F-35, (as a side note, if you enjoy documentaries, watch The Battle of The X-Planes. It’s on Netflix.) have a few beers and then get to work on a couple of the graphs I was supposed to have done. It ended up being a pretty good night. The recovery after that class was much needed. 

So one of my coworkers was just reading my over my shoulder as I’m typing this and reminded me that I did not even post anything on my blog about the Kamelot show. It was last weekend and it was easily one of my favorite concerts I’ve ever been too. I bought VIP passes for myself and Fluffy and we got to go meet the band before the show. Being kind of a spaz (I know, big surprise) we showed up like 2 hours early and sat in line off property before the show started. Fortunately there were some cool guys in the line so we had good company before the show. When we finally got in there were only a small group of people with VIP passes so we got tour posters and had them signed by the whole band including guest vocalists Elize Ryd and Simone Simmons. We also got photographs with the band. It was really a cool experience. They were all a really friendly bunch and it was cool to meet them. I didn’t really care much for the opening acts, some local band and The Agonist. I probably would have enjoyed The Agonist a couple years ago but not so much now. Kamelot put on an incredible show. Fabio Leone did a fantastic job in lieu of Roy Kahn, the energy was amazing. :) Also, the female vocalist for The Agonist sang the part of Mephisto in “March of Mephisto.” That was incredibly hot. All in all, a great night. 

Well, I think that pretty much catches me up with the current goings-on. I’ll try to keep things a little more current. :) Catch ya later.