Happy No-More-GFD-Day!

Woohoo! At long last, GFD (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics) is OVER!! The final exam was this morning, and while that wasn’t exactly bundles of fun, we’re all ecstatic that we’re done with GFD! We were all of course majorly stressing out about it beforehand, so this morning when we all showed up to Rad Tran, Dr Clothiaux was nice enough to postpone today’s class and make it up sometime next week when he realized that nobody was gonna be paying any attention whatsoever to anything he would talk about. That, and he’s just a cool prof (except when he assigns ugly, difficult homework, hehe). But anyway, the test was actually pretty fair (at least it was after Moyer told Dr Evans to axe a couple of the problems when she gave it to him to look over a couple days ago), even though it took everyone at least an hour and a half to complete when it was intended to be only an hour-long test (Dr Evans apparently thought her original, 33%-longer version of the test was still eminently doable in an hour too…). Anyway, I know I didn’t get everything right, but I think I might’ve done enough to get a B, which I guess I’d be satisfied with, especially in this class. All in all it wasn’t too too too bad, the carnage could’ve been worse. Far worse. But on the plus side, I don’t really have to think about GFD anymore, unless I decide to take the Ph.D. candidacy exam in a year or two.
Tonight a bunch of us went out for a dual celebration — Jacob’s birthday (it was also Levenia’s, though she elected to work on Rad Tran tonight, which is probably what the rest of us should’ve been doing instead) and the end of GFD. We decided to go for Japanese food, and went down to the Fuji Garden restaurant, where we were treated to habachi prepared right in front of us by a really cool chef. He was whipping the knives all over the place, setting all sorts of stuff on fire, cooking incredibly tasty food amazingly quickly, and just doing everything with flair and panache, it was awesome. He even was launching shrimp into all our mouths with his spatula from several feet away, that was pretty cool. It was the first time I’d ever had habachi as well, so I thought the whole experience was pretty cool, and the meal delectable. It’s always fun discovering new restaurants and eateries, and I think I’ll definitely be going back to Fuji Garden at some point.
And speaking of newly-discovered eateries, next time I’m desperately in need of a break while studying for a final exam (which’ll be in just over a week for sure), I think I’ll go get a tasty smoothie down at Smoothie King. Daniel introduced me to the place yesterday evening, and while it’s not exactly cheap, the smoothies are awesome. Definitely a good break from studying for what you know is gonna be a crappy test.
Well, I think I just needed an evening of not really doing much of anything, particularly with how busy the next two weeks are gonna be. It’s not gonna be fun at all, but we’ll all survive, and then it’ll be time for a break for a good 3-4 weeks! We’re just all ready for the semester to be over already at this point, can you tell?