Museum & College stuff.

My intention was to come home and do some homework. & while I didn’t do any of the intended things on that perceived list of homework…I did work on my abacus, so…I’m going to call it good for the night.

NOW…To get to the list of things I’ve been meaning to write about for nearly a week now.

Last Saturday: The trip to the museum with the Critters.
Traverse City is by no means a hub of amazing things…Tho a few things sneak in on occasion. The Dennos Museum Center, the museum attached to NMC, doesn’t usually have much in the way of exhibits either…They have an Inuit exhibit that runs full time, it’s a small room with some Inuit art, mildly interesting during an initial go-over, but not anything spectacular. They do have an interactive exhibit that runs all the time, that is a bit more entertaining, especially the one room…You go in and it’s dark, but there is a screen on one side, and some kind of set up on the other side that shines through the room and creates images on the screen that change when someone is walking through it, or doing whatever…It’s really too hard to put into words, because I’m realizing this description is REALLY sucking. *laughs* & they have a few more interactive things that are amusing and entertaining.

Anyway, since April (& until this Sunday) they have had a special exhibit…
Bodies Human: Anatomy in Motion
I knew going into it there were ‘bodies’ in sections, anatomy, internal organs, and all that stuff. I thought it was going to be polymers and whatever else it is they use to make models off these things…Not the case.

The trip through the museum became a mixture of fascination, and nausea…Well for me and Harley…Sonja on the other hand, she was in her element, and disappointed there was no actual movement. [Though the movement she was looking for is movement that no on else would of wanted to witness.]
The bodies were ACTUAL bodies…Human bodies, prepared though a process called ‘plastination’, which prevents decomposition from being able to occur.
One display was literally, slices of a body, from side to side…There was also one from the front of the head to the back (which is the only one that had real eyes, which was really just…*shudders*)…We got to see healthy organs compared to diseased organs…Most of the bodies were male, there was only one female actually.

You got to see muscles, veins (which they used dyes to color), pretty much everything. There was one display it was the bottom part of a head attached to a spinal cord, with some of the rib bones, shortened, but still in place. That is the one that Sonja REALLY wanted to see move. *shakes head* *rolls eyes* [I’m thinking maybe a bit too much reading of ‘The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service’ for that girl. *laughs* Tho, that probably attributed in part to my nausea, and actually waiting for something to move. *shudders* *laughs*]

Sooo…What next…School related things.
I have a ‘play list’ of songs for the ride to and from school…

1. Aliens Exist  [Blink-182]  {I know the CIA would say, What you hear is all hearsay, Wish someone would tell me what was right} ß I just love that line. *laughs*
2. Ballroom Blitz  [The Sweet]
3. Coming Undone  [Korn]
4. Mad World  [Gary Jules]
5. Mr. Brightside  [The Killers]
6. Obsession  [Animotion]
7. Confusion  [Seabound]
8. Rasputin (Club Mix)  [Boney M.]
9. Shadow Games  [Yu-Gi-Oh Soundtrack]
10. Smoke (Pain Remix)  [Seabound]
11. Starstrukk [3OH!3]

Most of them I kidnapped from Sonja’s music supply, a couple of them Wasil sent to me…A couple others just kind of wandered in. *laughs*

I have three classes this semester…
1.) Math for Elementary Teachers- Monday, Wednesday & Friday 1-2:30 @ NMC
2.) French…201 or whatever, the 3rd semester of it anyway. Tue & Thur. 10:15-12:15 @ NMC
3.) Foundations of Literary Study: Genre  Mondays 3:00-5:50 @ GVSU [Well, the University Center for NMC actually, but through Grand Valley.]

I have a 3 page paper due a week from Monday in what will be called from now on, my English class (it’s just easier than trying to remember all that other stuff). It’s on the book ‘In the Lake of the Woods’ by Tim O’Brien. He does a lot of Vietnam war writing…So not something I’m really looking forward to reading.
We’ve got 3 papers in this class…I’m hoping he takes grading easy on us, but he probably won’t. This is a guinea pig class…It’s the first time it’s been given.
Personally…I’m hoping for a miracle…As in the professor forgetting to shut his cell phone off 3 times, and him getting calls that interrupt class…He told us if it happens 3 times we all get A’s.

I’m going to miss one class, as Halloween is on a Monday…Already warned the professor…*pouts* It’s when all the good Poe stories are suppose to be gone over.
French: We have a 6 page review packet…I’ve got one page done. Not sure how long it took me. The professor commented that ‘yes, it was taking me a while, but I was doing a really good job at it’.
I was getting frustrated with how long it was taking…But I did recognize things, words, knew what some of them meant. So it’s in there, somewhere…Just hard to put it all together.
We are going to do another presentation this semester…He told us to think about a famous French person. I do believe I already have my person picked out. *smiles* Joan of Arc. *is so proud of herself, probably without any real cause, but hey, gonna feel that way anyway* *laughs*
From the look of the syllabus he’s looking at making it through 4 chapters…Which means only 4 oral exams…Which I ALWAYS get freaked out inside over…French causes anxiety…That I have determined, as I was feeling it fluttering again in class Thursday. [Didn’t have class Tuesday, as the professor was out of town. Out of town on the first day of class…seriously? *shakes head* But, that is actually fine with me…Less time in class, less time to cover stuff, less tests…My theory anyway.] Everyone else in class seems to have a good grasp of the language already…I feel so out of place.

Math: *pokes @ it with sticks* We are doing problem solving things…It takes A LOT of mental strain on my brain. I plan on sharing some of the problems here…Tho I don’t think I will be getting to that in this entry. [Tho I could leave you with the two Cryptarithim, that would be easy enough to do.]
We have reading in the book to do…Then we were vocab & definitions…We are assigned one problem from the book to do (yay only one!)…Then write about what was the hardest thing fo

r us to understand.
Then we go over that in class, she talks about the problems that were the hardest for us…Then we have to correct our problem if we got it wrong, plus do another problem, and ‘revisit’ the issue that gave us the most trouble.
In addition to that, we have online homework…The first bunch was 15 problems…After a bit of work I got 12 of them correct. (Which in the long run doesn’t matter, as it’s not graded individually, but just as ‘general homework’.)
Despite them driving me crazy, when I get one right, there is a bit of a ‘Yes! I did it!’ kind of rush…It’s weird.

Cryptarithims

Using only the numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9

  SUN
+FUN
SWIM

And a second one, using any of the digits 0-9

 USSR
+ USA
PEACE

Have fun!