I got an A!

I just got back my first math homework set and I got an A. Yay!

In the bedroom...

All that's left is the rough-in for the door and a few pieces of drywall. The ceiling will be beadboard.

Polar Coordinates

It's been about 10 years since the last time I thought about polar coordinates, so it's not a surprize that I missed it on the homework yesterday. The good news is that I was not the only one stumped by the problem, and the professor even admitted that he had a little trouble working through the problem trying to prepare for class, so he decided to give us an extra week to hand that problem in. Whew!

I'm definitely going to give the next homework a better effort earlier, so that I'm not finishing up the day it's due! I was so tired and my hand hurt from writing out the homework that I could barely take notes. And I was so glad to get home. I also need to find a better route to campus, because a 20 minute drive should not take an hour with traffic.

So my neighbors won't hate me...

I'm somewhat ashamed to say that all the stuff we've been ripping out of the house or purging over the past year or so has all been hanging out in my yard. Now, it started off innocently enough as just some scrap wood and paneling and random bits stowed into my woodshed. But then the woodshed was full and it spilled out into the yard. And eventually I was accumulating appliances and furniture out there and the weeds were growing up around everything. I finally decided that it was time to clean up the yard and put an end to the embarassment.

In my defense, if my yard were actually visible from the street, I probably wouldn't have let it go this far. Probably.

In other news, I'm 90% done with my first homework assignment for the grad math class. It's due tonight. I'm feeling good about it, except for this one last problem that I just can't seem to figure out. If you know how to use the chain rule for second partial derivatives of multiple independent parameters, let me know before 5pm. If you have no idea what that means, don't feel bad :)

Connect the Dots

So it's been a while, and I don't have new pictures of the renovation to share. There has been progress. We've done the joint compound and smoothed it over with a damp mop. It's actually pretty amazing how much the sponge mop acts like an eraser or a sanding block to remove the excess joint compound. It's almost finished, but there are still a few places around light fixtures and heating vents that need attention.

I've already bought the paint for the kitchen. It's Rapture by Glidden. Yes, it's really that red. The chosen color for the diningroom is Magic Spell by Behr, but when I looked at the paint chip it looked far more gray than I remembered so I didn't buy it yet. I thought I'd give the paint chip one more viewing in the room first.

So why haven't I been blogging?

1. I sprained/strained my wrist doing the joint compound and wanted to rest it for reason number 2.


2. My first Grad class in Applied Math, which lead to reason number 3.


3. An unplanned calculus review, because I couldn't seem to get the derivatives right. I forgot all about the product rule and quotient rule.


4. I celebrated turning 3-cubed years old (after a shock to find out that I've been thinking I was already 27, and then realizing that I was only 26!)


5. My sister is getting married and I spent 2 days trying on bridesmaid dresses to find a style that I could live with in a color that I could live with, and then trying on shoes to go with the dress.

Do I really need more reasons?