Thursday April 17, 2014

Today I woke up feeling really uninspired.  My friend who had the family crisis on Tuesday, had more on Wednesday, and finally left that night.  Two of my other friends had been fighting with each other and I had been playing Switzerland all day.  So between the drama and dancing and school, I really didn’t want to do anything.

I took my water sample early that day and for some reason (I am only noticing this now) I didn’t write a post about it.  It is probably because I forgot to.  Since I didn’t then, I will now, Thursday water quality was interesting because the water temperature had dropped but there was an incredible amount of cells in the water.  I think this is due mostly to the direction of the wind.  It was coming straight down the harbor from the north and there were a lot of waves and foam where I collect my sample.  It is most likely that the churning water brought up the algae that had sunk over the week, since the water there is usually calm.

Later during the day, I had my senior project meeting with Mr. Meleo.  In it we discussed a variety of things.  I explained that I had not been writing, because I had been so tired.  (It isn’t that I can’t write when I’m tired.  It’s just that my writing becomes very doom, gloom, and Edgar Allen Poe.  I find it reflects more on my state of fatigue than my feelings about my project.)  We also talked about Physics, which is my least favorite class.  I got a test back that morning, which was not terrible, but it did bring my grade down.  Currently, I have an 81, which is disappointing, since I have to take the exam if I have below an 85 average.

Finally, since I was too tired to work on my budget, I decided to catch up on reading Managerial Accounting for Dummies.  Fortunately, the section that I was reading (Using Costing Techniques for Decision Making) related to my spreadsheet.  Perhaps it was because I was really tired, but I did not really understand the chapter.  Since I moved from analyzing costs to making decisions based on costs, the vocabulary changed significantly, and I was having trouble following.  I am hoping to try reading the section again tomorrow to see if I understand it.  If not, I will try calling my mom and asking her.