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What a great way to wake up! /end sarcasm

There's an e-mail in my inbox from the mother of my only steady student saying that she will not be taking lessons from me anymore and they are going to find another coach. Um. Ok. That was from left field...

Oh well. So I'm losing a source of $15/week income. I've gained things like the textbook company, which is $30+/hour income, unlimited hours per week. I think I'm all good. But I'm still curious what motivated this change. I had no idea that they were unsatisfied, although her lack of progress due to not PRACTICING might have something to do with it. *shrug*

Onward...

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Hmph. I apparently filled my MoveOn registration out wrong and never received a ballot. And they won't allow registration during the voting. So I won't get to vote this time.

And I just banged my knee REALLY hard against my desk. Owie. It hurts to move it a little now.

And I have a tasty pastry for breakfast and can now get to work. Workworkwork!

I love my life

I've completed one chapter; there's $65. I'm sooo amused. I mean, I was struggling at the Symphony to make $128-160/week before taxes working 16 hours; now I make that much money in 4 hours in the comfort of... wherever I want! And have the rest of the week to do as I pleased.

Yes, I will get over this, but I'm still just amused and amazed at how cool this is. If I can recapture these kinds of assignments after the internship, it'll be great.

Now I need to find lunch, be useful in other ways, and I'll come back to it and do another chapter later. I'm debating cleaning the house/my room/doing stuff around here vs. going to Cliff's Variety in the Castro to shop for chains for my leather. I think I'm going to have to do the former. After all, not only do I have guests coming tonight, but I need to make my costume for Pride! It's going to be so cool!

As it turns out the student is leaving me because her mother feels she needs to be pushed. Of course, I didn't push her because it is unethical to be pushy unless the child and/or parent have expressed a desire to have their child pushed. If they had said something, I would have been pushy, but they didn't. *shrug* Whatever. Their loss. If she had been competitive, I obviously would have been pushier, but she wasn't. And lets be honest. You cannot Make It and be effectively competitive unless you are self-motivated or have enough money to hire a personal trainer.

What else? Oh yes, the physical copies of the textbook I'm working on (well, photocopies of the chapters relevant to me) arrived today, which means that if I want to grab a few chapters and a notepad and go sit in a cafe without my laptop on days when I'm particularly distractable or just need to get out, I can. Yay!

This also means I now have the second half of an unlame physics textbook. This textbook is MASSIVE! I mean, I picked up at E&M, but it has already covered Newton, Kinematics, angular motion and all sorts of stuffy things like that. It also covers circuits, optics and waves, and relativity. It's basically a not overly theoretical overview of undergraduate physics minus astrophysics, astronomy, and quantum. I don't think it covers advanced methods like the Hamiltonian and Einsteinian notation, though. It's called Physics for Scientists and Engineers, by Raymond Serway and John Jewett Jr. The website the objectives I'm writing will go up on is www.pse6.com; I'm writing Chapter Objectives.

For MIT folk, it seems to cover 8.01, 8.02, and portions of 8.03, at a level somewhere between 8.01/8.02 and 8.012/8.022. Mmm, sexy physics goodness.

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Diamond Mind from How We Quit the Forest by Rasputina is such an awesome song. It amuses me terribly. If you haven't heard it, I recommend it heartily.

My pride costume is coming along, I tidied up the kitchen and the living room, and I'm done with my second chapter for the day (this one in record time... only took me ~1 hour). The kitchen floor still needs to be mopped, I need to clean myself up, I got silver ink all over my cellphone, and there's still more work to be done on the costume... but I did get a lot done, and none of that needs to be done NOW, so yay for me. :)

And 2 hours until folk start arriving for LWB...

My hands have started to bother me a lot when typing. Ick. And the desktop on my computer is positively littered with downloaded files. I need make a downloads folder and tell my computer to put them in there instead.