Yesterday in a whirlwind
Feb. 22nd, 2007 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassFor those waiting for Daily Breadcrumbs, they will recommence tomorrow. I can say this with absolute certainty, because I've already written tomorrow's essay. Anything beyond Sunday is still up in the air at this point. *grin*
So. Yesterday I woke up and went to one of my least-favourite places on earth, the dentist. Now, for the record, my dentist is actually very nice, very friendly, and very competant. On the other hand, I have the Gums from Hell, and I have never yet had an appointment that did not result in massive amounts of pain. Yesterday proved to be no exception. By the time the hour-long appointment was done, I had spent an hour with all the muscles in my body clenched from pain, which I could only undo by a serious expediture of willpower. I also left with a prescription for an antibacterial mouthwash (to deal with the sensitivity) and an appointment next week... joy.
In other fun and exciting news, my mouth was in pain for most of yesterday, and it was challenging to eat anything harder than, say, noodles or chili.
In any event. After that was done, I rushed home to give my prescription to mom (who was nice enough to fill it for me), and then rushed downtown to give my class. It actually went pretty well: we talked about Herouxville, and my students really got into the discussion, so I was happy.
From there, I went off to meet Marc for lunch. It was the first bit of quality time we'd had in about a week, since he got sick, and it was nice to just sit and chat. We left lunch, had coffee, and then he went off to class and I went over to Chapters.
I discovered a really nifty book, which I suspect just reveals my nerdiness: The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems by Michael Kelley. I may have mentioned a few times that I'm interested in starting up science classes again, but I really don't want to redo my calculus classes unless I absolutely need to. This book seems pretty comprehensive, and explains every problem, starting with the equivalent of grade 9 math (geometry, polynomial equations, functions, on up to Cal. 2). The TMR library has it and is processing it: I'll be the first person on the list to borrow it, sometime before March 5. Once I've flipped through it a bit more extensively, I may even buy it.
Anyway. Enough about math books.
I went over to Ian's for his Game of Thrones game. Not much happened to my character other than getting kidnapped for ransom. On the other hand, I had a lot of fun watching the other characters' scenes. It was lots of fun, and I think I have finally given the others a line to tease me about for weeks to come. (And no, you're not going to hear it here.)
Then home with Marc. This morning we went to Tim Hortons for breakfast. I am strangely addicted to the biscuits they use for their TimMatins, though I've also found that one is not enough to satisfy me.
He left, I came home. Did some paperwork, wrote up tomorrow's Daily Breadcrumbs, and went to the library to pick up some "science of everyday life" books. Now I'm just hanging around waiting for Tarius and his students to come by for the workshop I'm giving.
Random fact of the day: according to Jay Ingram's book The Velocity of Honey, women tend to hold babies on their left side about 80% of the time. Scientists have theorized some reasons for why this might be, but no one seems quite sure.
And now, a link, courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gurudata: The size of space objects. It's a nifty link. You should check it out.
So. Yesterday I woke up and went to one of my least-favourite places on earth, the dentist. Now, for the record, my dentist is actually very nice, very friendly, and very competant. On the other hand, I have the Gums from Hell, and I have never yet had an appointment that did not result in massive amounts of pain. Yesterday proved to be no exception. By the time the hour-long appointment was done, I had spent an hour with all the muscles in my body clenched from pain, which I could only undo by a serious expediture of willpower. I also left with a prescription for an antibacterial mouthwash (to deal with the sensitivity) and an appointment next week... joy.
In other fun and exciting news, my mouth was in pain for most of yesterday, and it was challenging to eat anything harder than, say, noodles or chili.
In any event. After that was done, I rushed home to give my prescription to mom (who was nice enough to fill it for me), and then rushed downtown to give my class. It actually went pretty well: we talked about Herouxville, and my students really got into the discussion, so I was happy.
From there, I went off to meet Marc for lunch. It was the first bit of quality time we'd had in about a week, since he got sick, and it was nice to just sit and chat. We left lunch, had coffee, and then he went off to class and I went over to Chapters.
I discovered a really nifty book, which I suspect just reveals my nerdiness: The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems by Michael Kelley. I may have mentioned a few times that I'm interested in starting up science classes again, but I really don't want to redo my calculus classes unless I absolutely need to. This book seems pretty comprehensive, and explains every problem, starting with the equivalent of grade 9 math (geometry, polynomial equations, functions, on up to Cal. 2). The TMR library has it and is processing it: I'll be the first person on the list to borrow it, sometime before March 5. Once I've flipped through it a bit more extensively, I may even buy it.
Anyway. Enough about math books.
I went over to Ian's for his Game of Thrones game. Not much happened to my character other than getting kidnapped for ransom. On the other hand, I had a lot of fun watching the other characters' scenes. It was lots of fun, and I think I have finally given the others a line to tease me about for weeks to come. (And no, you're not going to hear it here.)
Then home with Marc. This morning we went to Tim Hortons for breakfast. I am strangely addicted to the biscuits they use for their TimMatins, though I've also found that one is not enough to satisfy me.
He left, I came home. Did some paperwork, wrote up tomorrow's Daily Breadcrumbs, and went to the library to pick up some "science of everyday life" books. Now I'm just hanging around waiting for Tarius and his students to come by for the workshop I'm giving.
Random fact of the day: according to Jay Ingram's book The Velocity of Honey, women tend to hold babies on their left side about 80% of the time. Scientists have theorized some reasons for why this might be, but no one seems quite sure.
And now, a link, courtesy of
gurudata: The size of space objects. It's a nifty link. You should check it out.
