July 27
I went grocery shopping today. On my walk down to the grocery store, a male Australian wood duck opened it's beak and came at me. His lady was with him, and apparently he wanted to defend her. Usually the wood ducks here run away if you get too close, but this one wanted me to know that I was clearly not welcome to get any closer. I thought it was really cute. They've got such tiny bills, and are really rather small ducks (smaller than mallards), so he didn't look too scary at all. :)
Today I bought $44 Australian dollars worth of food, so only around $30 U.S. I kinda stocked up on some stuff, so I won't have to buy a bunch of it for a while. Either way, even if it only lasts me one week at $30 U.S., that's doing pretty good. Some of the things I got should last for quite a bit longer than a week though (jelly, rice, spaghetti, mayonaise, spaghetti sauce, canola oil, etc.). It will be interesting to see in a few weeks how much I end up actually averaging on groceries every week.
This afternoon I got ahold of Jude, a girl that's doing grad school work through Cornell University on Galahs. I did a little talking with her on the phone about what she's doing. She's mostly doing research with vocalizations and callback stuff, and she said she wasn't sure if it would be too interesting for me to come and see or anything. She had to go because she was going to go rock climbing, but she said she'd call me back on the weekend. I will probably want to talk to her a little more about grad school and Cornell, I think, and about what else she's doing. I guess this is her 4th year of grad school, and she's working towards her PhD.
I ran around the lake this afternoon in almost 37 minutes. I ran slow, felt slow, and felt kinda tired. I'm gonna take it real easy tomorrow, then hope that I can beat three guys in the 5K on Saturday. :-D I went online and they have a list of the entrants for the race... so far there's only 6 males and a total of 13 runners entered in the 5K that I'm doing Saturday. More people may enter, of course, as you can enter up until the race starts. The winner of the race gets a Jaggad (brand name) running top and the top 3 get trophies. So that means I have a decent chance at getting a trophy, and even a slight chance of getting a running top if it happens to be a slow race. It should be fun.
This afternoon I went to take this online quiz for my Data Analysis in Science class. I studied for about an hour reviewing my notes, then I went to the website only to find out that the time period to take the quiz ended today at 2:40pm. Woops. I thought about e-mailing the professor, but she said in her syllabus to NOT e-mail (in bold like that) her about assessments or online quizzes. Her office hours for the week are also over now. So I think I'm just going to count my loss and not worry about it. It's only 1-2% of my final grade (each quiz), so I'll accept not getting 100% in the course. :-P I just need to pass this semester, I don't care about my grades too much. Everything should be pass/fail when it transfers back anyway. So I just better not fail!
In the evening a lot of people went out to the unibar on campus. I sat in the lounge with a few of the guys from my floor as they drank beer and stuff before we went, then I went up with them and socialized for a couple hours up there. It was fun, but the speaker quality is crap, so all the high-pitches cause your hearing to partially disappear for a short period of time after you've left. I definitely am going to have to avoid the loudness of the unibar as much as possible.
Today I bought $44 Australian dollars worth of food, so only around $30 U.S. I kinda stocked up on some stuff, so I won't have to buy a bunch of it for a while. Either way, even if it only lasts me one week at $30 U.S., that's doing pretty good. Some of the things I got should last for quite a bit longer than a week though (jelly, rice, spaghetti, mayonaise, spaghetti sauce, canola oil, etc.). It will be interesting to see in a few weeks how much I end up actually averaging on groceries every week.
This afternoon I got ahold of Jude, a girl that's doing grad school work through Cornell University on Galahs. I did a little talking with her on the phone about what she's doing. She's mostly doing research with vocalizations and callback stuff, and she said she wasn't sure if it would be too interesting for me to come and see or anything. She had to go because she was going to go rock climbing, but she said she'd call me back on the weekend. I will probably want to talk to her a little more about grad school and Cornell, I think, and about what else she's doing. I guess this is her 4th year of grad school, and she's working towards her PhD.
I ran around the lake this afternoon in almost 37 minutes. I ran slow, felt slow, and felt kinda tired. I'm gonna take it real easy tomorrow, then hope that I can beat three guys in the 5K on Saturday. :-D I went online and they have a list of the entrants for the race... so far there's only 6 males and a total of 13 runners entered in the 5K that I'm doing Saturday. More people may enter, of course, as you can enter up until the race starts. The winner of the race gets a Jaggad (brand name) running top and the top 3 get trophies. So that means I have a decent chance at getting a trophy, and even a slight chance of getting a running top if it happens to be a slow race. It should be fun.
This afternoon I went to take this online quiz for my Data Analysis in Science class. I studied for about an hour reviewing my notes, then I went to the website only to find out that the time period to take the quiz ended today at 2:40pm. Woops. I thought about e-mailing the professor, but she said in her syllabus to NOT e-mail (in bold like that) her about assessments or online quizzes. Her office hours for the week are also over now. So I think I'm just going to count my loss and not worry about it. It's only 1-2% of my final grade (each quiz), so I'll accept not getting 100% in the course. :-P I just need to pass this semester, I don't care about my grades too much. Everything should be pass/fail when it transfers back anyway. So I just better not fail!
In the evening a lot of people went out to the unibar on campus. I sat in the lounge with a few of the guys from my floor as they drank beer and stuff before we went, then I went up with them and socialized for a couple hours up there. It was fun, but the speaker quality is crap, so all the high-pitches cause your hearing to partially disappear for a short period of time after you've left. I definitely am going to have to avoid the loudness of the unibar as much as possible.
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