![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I was so excited to go to my first skating lesson now that I'm back home... and have we talked about the three-turns I can actually do (though probably poorly) now? Spins? My baby of a waltz jump that doesn't actually jump? Nope, my coach has decided that a very solid foundation in the basics are a must, so we're working on edges. And forward crossovers, which are also about edges. Yesterday, I was excited that we worked on forward stroking because it was different - I was about to ask to do anything other than edges for part of the lesson.
Otherwise, it's mostly working on my dissertation proposal, or not working enough on it. I'm narrowing in on the questions I need to finish answering before I send it to my advisor, though. Might ask Z for some opinions on it, too, and I'm hoping to get some relevant programming done tonight.
I met the professor I'm TAing for the day before classes started, which was also the first day I knew who I was TAing for. It will be a very light workload for the most part. No excuses not to get my own work done, then. (More freedom to choose which days I go skating!)
This weekend, I woke up to no hot water. A few hours later, my heat also went. My landlord and I naturally thought this second failure was the result of the heater freezing, since it's water-based, but a few hours with a space heater failed to bring back either my water or my heater. Eventually, I texted him about it again, and it turned out the solution was simply that someone had to go and flip the breakers. This was the third time my water or heat had gone out since I moved here a few years ago. Though it wasn't due to cold this time, my landlord has finally followed up on his promise to get someone to look at the (lack of) insulation in the back of the house after this, so it wasn't all that bad. Would have been nice if it had happened before the snow storm and cold that's going to hit this weekend, but oh, well. I'll just bundle up by the window with some tea and work (and probably some anime).
Back to work. I need to distract myself from endlessly refreshing Twitter for Yuri on Ice movie news somehow!
Otherwise, it's mostly working on my dissertation proposal, or not working enough on it. I'm narrowing in on the questions I need to finish answering before I send it to my advisor, though. Might ask Z for some opinions on it, too, and I'm hoping to get some relevant programming done tonight.
I met the professor I'm TAing for the day before classes started, which was also the first day I knew who I was TAing for. It will be a very light workload for the most part. No excuses not to get my own work done, then. (More freedom to choose which days I go skating!)
This weekend, I woke up to no hot water. A few hours later, my heat also went. My landlord and I naturally thought this second failure was the result of the heater freezing, since it's water-based, but a few hours with a space heater failed to bring back either my water or my heater. Eventually, I texted him about it again, and it turned out the solution was simply that someone had to go and flip the breakers. This was the third time my water or heat had gone out since I moved here a few years ago. Though it wasn't due to cold this time, my landlord has finally followed up on his promise to get someone to look at the (lack of) insulation in the back of the house after this, so it wasn't all that bad. Would have been nice if it had happened before the snow storm and cold that's going to hit this weekend, but oh, well. I'll just bundle up by the window with some tea and work (and probably some anime).
Back to work. I need to distract myself from endlessly refreshing Twitter for Yuri on Ice movie news somehow!
