| cookin'Today church was more intimate because the students were away for spring break. It was a good message about the need for prayer. I like staying afterwards to hang out, but I had to work on my proposal for my mentor. So for dinner I made some asparagus and sausage, which is a pretty good combo. Afterwards I read a paper for my project and worked on my assignment. |
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| newsboysToday I watched the Newsboys in concert with Po-ling, Scott, Tim and his siblings, and Bing in Westlake Village. It was good to see them again. We went first to BCD on Western and had some dinner, which was relaxing, although I felt like we could have caught up a lot more. All during the drive there and back, during the concert, Tim's little brother and Bing were engaged in an 'epic struggle' in the middle seat, while I sat with Tim in the front.
The Newsboys got Michael Tait for their frontman, so the sound was like a strange mix of Dc Talk and Newboys. But they had mostly songs I liked - Breakfast and It is You were the best. Someone even brought a box of Cap'n Crunch =). I think I like Newsboys better now, but it still has a little too much electric-reliant sound for me.
I have abbreviated notes for the month I haven't been writing, but I just am too lazy to write them into fullness yet In the meantime, PhD comics can adequately describe my life.
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| wrapping upToday I tried to wrap up all of the work I've done in my current lab. I wrote a lot of comments in the new version of the code and did some debugging, and made nicer graphs than what I've done before. My mentor says if the results pan out it's interesting enough for a paper, but since I'm the only test subject it's not clear yet. What makes matters worse is that my astigmatism probably confounds the results because my lenses will over correct part of the image, according to Bosco. At least it's not my fault. |
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| mothersI've been thinking about visiting my mom for her birthday next month. I don't want to take too much superfluous time off from my work though. Today after lab we had a Bible study at the medical school which was really interesting. Among other things we talked about loving God with your mind and having a positive effective tone. Although it seemed to me at first positive psychology, recovering your identity in Christ and the church was a big part.
After lab I found out that John's mom had passed away of cancer recently, and the memorial service was tomorrow. I was sad for him and missed my mom for a while. I went to Ralph's to pick up some groceries and came out to see an old guy ask me for money for jumper cables. When I told him I had neither he insisted, so we walked across the street to the gas station to buy jumper cables. While walking I learned his name was Cliff and he was a veteran visiting his son on his wife's birthday. They were at Ralph's to get a gift but his car wouldn't start. When we got back with the cables we couldn't start the car, but I gave his wife (also a veteran) some of my groceries as a birthday present. Seeing mothers everywhere makes me miss mine - I realized I don't talk to many daily anymore. |
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