Definitely a Hump Day

I guess there hasn’t been too much going on the last couple days, just some Cloud Physics homework (almost done!) and fun distractions, like “24” and “Stargate SG-1” and some good ol’ college basketball, like the Duke-UNC dandy on TV last night. Even though I hate both those teams with a passion, it was still a great, close game to watch, especially to see J.J. Redick show off his out-of-this-world shooting ability.
And speaking of college basketball, this evening I went with Ed, Ben, Craig and Byran to the Penn State vs Minnesota men’s basketball game over at the Bryce Jordan Center. It was PSU’s first game after their stunning 66-65 upset of #6 Illinois in Champaign, so naturally the expectations were for the Nittany Lions to beat the bottom-feeding Golden Gophers at home. And it looked like that was gonna happen when PSU jumped out to an early 10-0 lead, but from there on out Penn State looked absolutely listless, and wound up getting beaten by Minnesota 77-66. Hopefully they can do better against Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon. Apparently a white-out has been declared for the game, but I doubt it’ll be as cool as the white-out of the football game vs Wisconsin last fall…
Adding to the hump day doldrums, today our workload for the upcoming week or so just got quite a bit heavier, with a Cloud Physics midterm on Wednesday night next week, and for next Friday in Mesoscale we have to read some long journal article and write a review for it. And that’s in addition to what looks like a nasty Dynamics assignment due Friday, and my weekly contingent of ~60 labs to grade for Meteo 003. The next week isn’t gonna be fun, and I know I’ve had it much worse than this, but I just like to complain sometimes. 🙂
Attention fellow meteo grads: I picked up “Apples to Apples” the other day, so now there’ll be yet another option at the next game night for a group game. 🙂
I wish I didn’t have back-to-back Meteo 003 labs to teach tomorrow, but hopefully I’ll know more what I’m talking about than I did on Tuesday, when I got pretty confused by a couple questions by my students that I wasn’t really prepared for. Oh well, I guess it happens to everyone, but it’s still frustrating.
I don’t know how credible this guy is, but some Russian astronomer is predicting that the planet will experience another mini-Ice Age in the middle of this century. We’ll see if that one pans out.
And Japan was all set to change their monarchy succession laws to allow for female emperors, but that’s all on hold now because the Princess is apparently pregnant. So now nobody’s wanting to pass the law just in case she gives birth to a baby boy, who would then be due to become Emperor someday. Whatever they do, just pray that they don’t change their laws to allow Josh to become emperor. At least if that does happen, he’d probably give everyone their own domo-kun, so maybe it wouldn’t be so bad after all.