Day 128 - Two more weeks

The semester is more than halfway over, and I still have no idea where or when most of my classes are. Today was very typical.. I went to the room that's on the schedule, nobody there. I went to another room where we've had class on other days.. nobody there. I went to another room, nobody there, but on the way I ran into a couple other people in my class also searching for the right room. The fourth room turned out to be the right one, but class started several minutes late because some people still hadn't figured out which room it was. This is a commom occurrence here.

Lately I've been working a lot on a boundary layer model (a computer program designed to represent the physics of the lowest ~1 km above the earth's surface) that was developed here for urban meteorological studies. The most recent thing I did was to give the "buildings" the same thermal properties of a forest, specifically the Crosstimber Micronet. My first guess was to make the "buildings" a 50/50 mixture of air and wood. It didn't work so well, but it has some promise. This stuff may or may not end up in my dissertation. But even if it doesn't, I've been learning a lot from it.

My friend left for Oklahoma today, which made me think about two weeks from today when I go back there. I'm excited about going back, but it's also sad at the same time. Someone asked me tonight if I'm looking forward to going back home. My response was "I'm looking forward to going back, but I'm not looking forward to leaving."

posted by Matt @ 9:16 PM