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November 17, 2006
Fun and Anti-Fun
Tuesday night's fun: Going out to the Darkhorse to celebrate Shannon passing her thesis defense.
Tuesday night's anti-fun: Coming back to my laptop whigging out and giving indications that my hard drive might be on its last legs. Cleaning out old data from my external hard drive and setting up transfers of all my important files meant I got well over an hour less sleep than I would've liked.
Wednesday's anti-fun: Being witness to substantial bickering. Reading a journal article about growth rates of baroclinic waves of different wavelengths in the evening.
Wednesday's fun: Dozing off while reading said journal article.
Thursday's fun: Watching a squall line approach and then come through the State College area, dumping over half an inch of rain in ten minutes (storm total over 1.3"). From the 4th floor windows in Walker, watching motorists try to navigate the flooded streets (both Atherton and the intersection on the other side of Walker, by the frat house), and watching one car die in the middle of the giant puddle near the Walker intersection. Snickering at the local National Weather Service office issuing a Tornado Warning for Centre (ours) and Clearfield Counties upon examination of the radar. Dr Young saying during his colloquium talk, "That's like asking which is faster, a snail or granite?" Watching a very entertaining football game between West Virginia and Pittsburgh, including seeing Pitt return a punt for a touchdown, on probably what will be voted on as the play of the year in college football.
Friday's anti-fun: Climate control in Walker (unbearably warm in most rooms). Narrowly missing out on first place in the grad student category for the two-week Jackson, Mississippi period in the WxChallenge national forecasting contest.
Friday's fun: Carl's pending arrival in an hour and a half or less! It's about time to start makin the spaghetti! :-D
Tomorrow's projected fun: Morning tailgating, watching the Penn State vs Michigan State game and then the Ohio State vs Michigan game on TV with Carl, Andrew, Jacob and whoever else cares to join us wherever we wind up. Being a rent-a-fan for tO$U and donning whatever extra Buckeyes gear Andrew has out here. Ohio State hopefully winning. Potential trip to The Phyrst on a Saturday night! Woo!
Tomorrow's potential anti-fun: If Michigan wins.
Sunday's projected fun: Going to church, making fruit compote and apple pie (Carl's creation) for the big meteo grad Thanksgiving meal at Houserville on Sunday afternoon! All the triptophane might cause me to sleep through PSCG Bible study at my place in the evening, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
As you can see, there's plenty of fun to be had in Happy Valley! I'd better get to it!
Posted by Jared at November 17, 2006 06:43 PM