July 17: Programming Our Robot Overlords
Ugh. I have a lovely recipe for all of you to try out.
Step 1: Put sheets into washing machine after dinner to be tidy and responsible and proactive and all that jazz.
Step 2: An hour later move sheets over to dryer.
Step 3: Play Dominion with dormmates until after 12am on a weeknight.
Step 4: Blog about it.
Step 5: Retrieve sheets from dryer and have nice clean sheets to crash on.
Makes: clean sheets and happy RJs, serves 1.
Now, what happens if you forget step 2!? SUDDENLY YOU ARE BAKING A CAKE OF UNIMAGINABLE AGONY!!! D:<
Eauughghglghgllll... I ended up staying up until like 2:30am yesterday waiting for my sheets to dry. >_< Needless to say I was *quite* tired this morning. D:
I had dorm breakfast of ham and a sunny-side-up egg, with some salty, fishy stewed vegetables (they had shrimp and rubbery clams hidden inside) that I really didn't like in the slightest haha. >_< I guess I'm quite lucky that I like almost all the food I've eaten here, but this morning was definitely a bust QQ. Oh well. I got to work on time and read papers for the whole morning. I am so bad at reading papers it's rather funny, but I've already talked about that particular weakness at length, so I won't go into details haha.
At lunch I ate Murugi curry, which is some sort of Japanese curry that claims to be from another culture due to the presence of chicken in the roux. It was good enough though, and the other options today were not so great, so in contrast it was great! PS. Dear cafeteria, if you're going to serve katsu, please do not charge like 520円 for it (you can keep the single leaf of lettuce and the cruddy sauce if it helps). D:<
After eating I played handiball, and it was 3-on-3, so I quite enjoyed myself. My shoulder really hurt while serving today for some reason so I had to stop after a couple of times. O_O I also rolled my ankle (same side), but not badly to put me out of commission for more than half a minute. I was getting quite worried what else might go wrong with my body during the lunch hour! Luckily that was it (I hope I'm not jinxing myself now haha), and I was able to play without a hitch for the rest of it (thank goodness!).
In the afternoon I read papers some more and started making my presentation slides. Making the slides is much harder this time around, because I have not actually used LDA before (as I have mentioned), meaning I haven't already stressed and stressed over the correctness of my derivations and resultant equations. Also, LDA uses a concept that's new to me, in that it "doesn't estimate the parameters", but I'm not totally sure about what that actually means, as I end up with estimates of the parameters at the end of the day... I am going to try to find out more about that on Tuesday (tomorrow is a holiday).
I stopped work at about 6:30 today, which surprised me, because all day I had been gazing longingly at the clock and I was thinking today was a day when I would actually leave when Kabutoya-san says I should haha. >_< Paper reading and trying to understand the contents is something that really makes you feel each and every minute, but just as it was coming up to about 5:30, I was able to start writing bits of my presentation, and before I knew it an hour had passed!
I walked home again today. I am getting to really like the walk home, except for the Forest of A Thousand Spiders (actually just a series of bushes) crowding the narrow sidewalk before the hydrangea part of the hill from the Tsuushin Kenkyujo). I always get hit in the face with stray silk, and I know one of these days I'm going to have a spider on me and I will not like it one bit. D:<
On the way home I went to the 100円 store, as I am an idiot and had looked at the WRONG STORE yesterday. >_< Somehow I forgot that the 100円 store is bright pink with flashing lights... I am very special sometimes. Anyways, I was able to buy a tape measure and some towels and some wastebaskets, which is totally awesome. I am 99% sure that the towels are going to fall apart in a single wash and will give me rashes and possibly malaria, but I've been meaning to buy towels for a while, and they are the perfect size and were 100円 each! How could I resist!? Once I got home I had dorm dinner of green soba-esque noodles with chilled broth, kimchi and gyoza (and rice and NO MISO SOUP!!!). It was delicious and perfect for summer, and more than made up for the meals of the rest of the day.
After supper I tidied my room a little bit and started blogging. In the midst of blogging Dad and I were able to connect for a nice little video chat. I hadn't really heard his voice properly since I left Canada, so that was quite nice. He and Linda and I chatted about how I was doing and what I was doing, etc. until they had to go to eat breakfast.
When I got back to blogging, I suddenly and spontaneously remembered that having good Internet again means I can listen to music from youtube/grooveshark again! I have been going through Ella Riot withdrawal, and now I can finally get my fix! Thanks for getting me hooked right before going JIUNA. D:< OK OK I admit it's my fault because you tried to introduce me to them months and months ago but I was busy being an apathetic pill haha. I'm actually not sure if Japan's laws on streaming are the same as Canada's. I hope so, or I've just published something rather incriminating hahaha. >_< I can laugh now because I'm not being deported... yet (I *did* do some bad conjugations the other day...). ;D
Anyways, I'm going to go to bed now, as I need to recover from my 2:30am laundry adventure from yesterday (yes yes I know it's technically today hardy-harshutup <3). Night!
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