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Feb. 22nd, 2019 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI got very little done today. I'm not even sure where the time went. Well, an hour of it went to an attempt to nap that got close to actual sleep before I was interrupted by a text from Cordelia.
I'm trying to figure out how it can be that my eyes think that the living room is too dark with the light off in the middle of a sunny afternoon but also too bright with the same light on at night. I really don't understand this one because I'd expect that the cumulative light would be too bright during the day if it was going to be too much at night.
Two of the three people I was expecting to visit tomorrow for a write-in have had to cancel. I'll still get together with the third, and we'll sit at the table and write, but it's more fun with more people.
Cordelia's working on course selection for next year, and it's reminding me how frustrating I find the rules about how many credit hours are needed for graduation. Mainly, I get cranky because each class is worth some fraction of a credit (usually 0.5). I don't understand the reasoning for saying that, for example, the foreign language requirement is 2 credits-- four terms at 0.5 credits each-- instead of 4 credits. Both a trimester class (Cordelia's school) and a semester class (other local public schools) are worth that 0.5 credits, so it's not an attempt to juggle that part.
It just seems like making more work to have a unit that increments in halves. Classes are pretty purely arbitrary in terms of numeric value, so it's mainly a matter of establishing uniformity.
I'm trying to figure out how it can be that my eyes think that the living room is too dark with the light off in the middle of a sunny afternoon but also too bright with the same light on at night. I really don't understand this one because I'd expect that the cumulative light would be too bright during the day if it was going to be too much at night.
Two of the three people I was expecting to visit tomorrow for a write-in have had to cancel. I'll still get together with the third, and we'll sit at the table and write, but it's more fun with more people.
Cordelia's working on course selection for next year, and it's reminding me how frustrating I find the rules about how many credit hours are needed for graduation. Mainly, I get cranky because each class is worth some fraction of a credit (usually 0.5). I don't understand the reasoning for saying that, for example, the foreign language requirement is 2 credits-- four terms at 0.5 credits each-- instead of 4 credits. Both a trimester class (Cordelia's school) and a semester class (other local public schools) are worth that 0.5 credits, so it's not an attempt to juggle that part.
It just seems like making more work to have a unit that increments in halves. Classes are pretty purely arbitrary in terms of numeric value, so it's mainly a matter of establishing uniformity.
