Nenya Kanadka

So my stats course auxiliary text (not the textbook, but the spiral-bound instructions and additional examples book) is having problems with its fonts. It's attempting to describe the mean value of something, using the Greek letter mu, but instead what's been printed on the page is a weee tiny bird symbol, some kind of sparrow or something. They caught it a few pages later, but I have several instances of stuff like "the alternative hypothesis is that [tiny birdie] > 3.0 grams, where [tiny birdie] is the mean fat content for the population of all oatmeal raison cookies" --because apparently they can't spell "raisin" today either.

College!

1) Have signed up for kaberett's love meme, here, should anyone want to say nice things about me over there.

2) On the Doctor Who front, I'm shockingly into the new Master. I think Gomez!Master is my second-favourite after Delgado. (Certainly more my style than Simm.)

( Short Master-related spoilers here for season 8 finale )

I also love, love, love tonight's climactic speech from the Doctor ( moar spoilers )

3) School! Apparently I love stats and am finding intermediate accounting a bit of a slog. We're getting to more interesting parts of the latter now, though, even if I keep fucking up the practice exercises. OH WELL

D) This t-shirt: Orbital Model of the Carbon Atom, with smiling protons, neutral neutrons, and sad electrons. :D

E) I've made it to level 33 on A Game About Squares. Adore the game when I can actually figure it out, stare grumpily at screen when I can't. Possibly more addictive than 2048.

Currently stretched out on Mucca's exorbitantly comfy rug, poking through online eyeglasses retailers in a search for new frames. (Alas, my current beloved blue semi-oval pair is no longer for sale that I can see. Woe. Should I get a similar style in black, a more pedestrian style in the same lovely blue, or something in eggplant purple?)

First ten days at lighthouse have been marvellous on the whole. It's been mostly sunny, and I've had the luxury of both sleeping in and setting my own schedule, which I haven't had in ages. Also, of course, cuddling Mucca and smooching randomly and seeing her smile pretty much any hour of the day or night. <3 We do breakfasts and lunch at our house, and then go over for dinner (happening shortly here, when tonight's crop of park wardens get in) at Mucca's parents' place (her dad is also a lightkeeper). It's quite companionable in a low-key way.

Have signed up for my college courses, but haven't yet started them: one is coming by mail, one is going to be online but I'm waiting for the disability office to be sure whether they need to subtitle anything for me, and one is not quite yet on offer (so I'm not actually registered for that one yet). It seems that the university website is pretty easy to manage and won't be a huge drain on Internet bandwidth, so that's good.

Speaking of Internet, I haven't come anywhere near the daily bandwidth limits yet--mostly because the wifi, which comes in by satellite at the house next door, is weak over here. So we are currently sharing Mucca's Ethernet cable until she and her dad put in a cable for me. Then I should be able to set up shop properly in my office--I've got a whole back room that's all mine for me to store stuff in and do school in, but so far I've only used it a little to write smutfic in. (Which is admittedly another of its intended uses.)

I've also been online less because there's been so much to do offline: moving my things in, setting up the office, hanging photos, getting the living room ready for our couch (which in theory will be delivered by a ship sometime soon, either tomorrow or in a few weeks), baking bread, unloading and storing the monthly delivery of groceries, taking long walks on the beach/through the forest, and if all else fails gardening with my mother-in-law ("belle-mere", quoth she, who is studying French). Suspect this will all slow down soon (I spent today reading Kate Bornstein's autobiography) but then also school should pick up soon too.

We've been watching Cosmos (Neil deGrasse Tyson version) in the evenings with aforesaid belle-mere. It's a whole lot of fun, and I like that he includes people besides just white European men when he does history of science. Also: tardigrades, the little intriguing bastards.

It's really unfairly gorgeous here, when the sun is out. I kind of hate it when it's overcast, which unfortunately it will be a whole lot later on in the fall and winter, mostly because it leaches the colour out of things and gets a lot colder. But right now it's just flat-out gorgeous. All primary colours: bright green grass and dark green evergreen forests, little white houses with red roofs (and lighthouse tower in same colours), yellow fuel tanks, and ocean that can be shockingly blue one hour and slate grey the next. You kind of look out the window or take a walk and spend the whole time just drinking it in. On a more prosaic note, our house is not painted yellow inside with 70's orange curtains like my last rental in town was, so that helps. :P

Have not signed up for femslashex this year, since I have enough writing and non-writing projects that I'm pretty sure I would crash spectacularly. (Last year I ended up dropping out, and the year before I managed a fic that, while it's gotten more hits than anything else I've ever done by virtue of being in a large fandom, was like pulling teeth to write. So I'm out this time around, I think.)

Oops, wardens are at hand! Dinner soon. Suspect Settlers of Catan afterwards. Have won once so far this month, though it was a close call. (Longest Road ftw!)