November the Twenty-Eighth

Today is a big day! Three more days until school starts back up, and I definitely want to get a head-start so that these last two weeks before finals aren't too ridiculous.

On tap for today:
- Completion of Personal Business Plan
(vision statement, finances, marketing)
- Completion of Bioseparations homework
(adsorption and chromatography)
- Completion of Thermo project
(biochemical thermodynamics paper)

The business plan is almost finished, save for the Finance section: http://brandon.curtis.googlepages.com/businessplan
I also want to link in some junk on my Keirsey Temperament Sorter results, because I think they're very relevant.

I also want to skim back through a book I read eleven months ago on procrastination. It's one of the larger problems that I have to cope with, and a big stumbling block to working efficiently and having more time to do the things that I want to do. I want to start a pretty gigantic publication project over winter break, so I could use a refresher on getting started.


Today's Plan: "Focusing"


Went shopping this evening, and picked up the following:

• Farberware non-stick cookware (8" skillet, 10" skillet, 11" square griddle)
• Farberware turner
  
• 3M Command adhesive + hook (46 needs another coat hook)
• Whitening stuff
• (2) Drosera adelae, half-dead
• (4) Wildflower bulbs
• (2) Fern rhizomes

Life in Fenske improves ever so slightly...

November the Twenty-Seventh

To sleep at 5:30, awake by 8:30...

- Thanksgiving



Six hours in a car sucks. Fortunately, sleep deprivation allowed me to be asleep for the majority of it! Farm animals and a long walk in the woods made up for the drive.

One thing I noticed is that even some of the younger people on my dad's side of the family have gained quite a bit of weight since the last time I saw them, Thanksgiving two years ago. I am determined not to allow this to happen. For this reason, look for the Fitness Project to pop up sometime in the not-so-distant future. The projected start date is December 16th, two and a half weeks from now, the day I finish up with finals. Part of it will be the continued refinement of my (now completely vegetarian) diet, and the other part will be a hardcore three-week exercise program to get myself ready for the start of Jiu Jitsu in the Spring semester. I've broken a lot of bad habits this year, and now it's time to make a lot of good ones.

November the Twenty-Second

It's going to be a cold break... temperatures are not expected to rise above 40 degrees in the next ten days.

Laptop file backup is underway. I'm organizing as I backup, so this could take a while. Once everything is backed up, I'll probably reformat.

Carnivorous plants continue to grow crazy well. Plan is to do a very large round of surface sterilization this weekend, for creation of embryogenic material (for propagation, and for intermittent-effluent bioreactor test).

Wakeup (8:30, seven hours)
Water the plants
File backup
Surface Sterilization
Pizza Dinner at Redifer w/Brian
Pizza Delivery (home)
Computer part scroungin'
LeydePC assembly
Computer success!
ChemE party
Shower
46 Crash

And now, my feature presentation:



(Way too amused at this for my own good)