This morning I sort of woke up around 8 when my
alarm went off, but I just lay in
bed and drifted in and out of sleep. My
girlfriend left for class around eight thirty,
and about nine o'clock I though I heard her call
my name, in a voice that suggested she was in
pain. I got up out of bed, suddenly awake (but
not overly lucid) and called "what?", not
thinking to look at the clock. I checked in the
bathroom and down the hall, in the living room,
and in the kitchen. Of course there was no one
there. It was sort of creepy; I briefly thought she
had gotten hit by a car or something and had
called out from beyond the grave!
Since I'm not really a superstitious person, I
figured I'd just email her and have her call after
she got out of her first class (she's a compulsive
email checker, so I knew she'd get it), and not
worry until then. Fortunately she called.
To extend the heppie-jeepies this morning, a
book that I thought I had securely set on a table
fell off and bent some of the pages. Then I had a
shower and got thinking about that Harrison Ford /
Michelle Pfeiffer movie, What lies beneath. Visions
of ghosts drawing on the foggy mirror while I was
in the shower. *shudder*
But no, no ghostly writings.
I've nearly finished a set of microwave
related nodes that deal with transmission lines
and impedance matching. If anyone is curious as to
why I'm writing this stuff up, it's because I had
to spend a lot of time thinking about how to do it
because I found the class notes and the text books
I had sort of inadequate, and I'm hoping I can
save any other EE students some time. Also, I have
a midterm tomorrow and I really need to know it
all, and writing it out helps me remember the
techniques. I only hope my explanation is clear
enough without diagrams...