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icepixieI stayed on campus later than usual today to hear a talk by an American history professor for one of my classes, and so wound up driving home around 6:30 this evening, just as the sun was setting. On my drive home, I can see the smoke stack for the UT hospital's power plant rising up on a bluff by the river; tonight, it was backlit by the incredibly orange glow of the sunset, and it and the billowing smoke it spewed looked positively evil. It was seriously cool. :D
(On my drive to campus in the mornings I was able--until early this month, when the sun started rising after I leave my apartment--to see a particularly attractive church spire silhouetted against the pale sunrise. The drive both ways also takes me by an especially winsome section of the Tennessee River, now lined by flame-colored maples and other trees of various hues. I have a nice commute. And at seven minutes, it's not overly tedious. I think I spend more time parking and walking to the English building than I do driving.)
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Apparently the entire eastern half of the US is having a cold snap...? Sure seems that way. It only hit 50 or so here today, I think. It's cold enough that one boiler has been on all day, and two of them were on for a good chunk of it. It got broiling hot in my apartment, actually, until I turned off all but one of the radiators, and turned that one just one 3/4th turn of the knob. (Oh, how I wish for a thermostat. Setting degrees would be so convenient.) It was cold before, when the temperature was hovering just above what would set the first boiler off. I can't win.
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Still on Frankenstein. Hopefully will finish it tonight, but I have to meet with my Renaissance professor tomorrow to chat about my paper, so I also have to prepare for that. (Because of that and another meeting, plus regular classes and such, I have to be on campus from 7:30 AM to 9:20 PM tomorrow unless the Nexus meeting runs short enough that I can run home for dinner before class. It's gonna suck.) I last read it the summer before ninth grade, so I was fourteen or so, and I'd forgotten how engrossing it is. I actually gasped aloud when Victor Frankenstein saw the lightning illuminate the shadowy figure of his monster across the mountain. Creepy! I might have to use it for my 102 class--although I get the impression most people read it in high school, so perhaps that would be too repetitive. I'll have to think about it.
(On my drive to campus in the mornings I was able--until early this month, when the sun started rising after I leave my apartment--to see a particularly attractive church spire silhouetted against the pale sunrise. The drive both ways also takes me by an especially winsome section of the Tennessee River, now lined by flame-colored maples and other trees of various hues. I have a nice commute. And at seven minutes, it's not overly tedious. I think I spend more time parking and walking to the English building than I do driving.)
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Apparently the entire eastern half of the US is having a cold snap...? Sure seems that way. It only hit 50 or so here today, I think. It's cold enough that one boiler has been on all day, and two of them were on for a good chunk of it. It got broiling hot in my apartment, actually, until I turned off all but one of the radiators, and turned that one just one 3/4th turn of the knob. (Oh, how I wish for a thermostat. Setting degrees would be so convenient.) It was cold before, when the temperature was hovering just above what would set the first boiler off. I can't win.
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Still on Frankenstein. Hopefully will finish it tonight, but I have to meet with my Renaissance professor tomorrow to chat about my paper, so I also have to prepare for that. (Because of that and another meeting, plus regular classes and such, I have to be on campus from 7:30 AM to 9:20 PM tomorrow unless the Nexus meeting runs short enough that I can run home for dinner before class. It's gonna suck.) I last read it the summer before ninth grade, so I was fourteen or so, and I'd forgotten how engrossing it is. I actually gasped aloud when Victor Frankenstein saw the lightning illuminate the shadowy figure of his monster across the mountain. Creepy! I might have to use it for my 102 class--although I get the impression most people read it in high school, so perhaps that would be too repetitive. I'll have to think about it.
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Date: 2008-10-29 01:56 am (UTC)I'm so not used to this weather in Oct... the high today was 71 and I think the low is 56!!
bbbrrrrr!!! :) But I like it!
Oh, the high tomorrow is supposed to be 68...