stargazing rocks!
Nov. 26th, 2005 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
georion23oh man, i had the best night. we had a huge group of people from vancouver (hehe, canadians) at the stargazing event and they were a wonderful group. i got to run the 11" telescope and i showed them a lot of cool stuff and taught them some things too. i showed them venus and it's a crescent right now so i talked about solar system geometry and placement of the planets, showed them a couple of planetary nebulae and taught them about stellar evolution, showed them albireo (a double star with one orange and one blue star) and talked about different colors meaning different temperatures, showed them and talked a lot about mars, and pointed out constellations. such a good time. i love this stuff. it's so much fun teaching people about the sky, especially when they're receptive and interested. it was awesome. going to go out again. james seems to think i did a good job and he trusts me with his telescope so sometime when he gets a gig but can't make it, i might do it and get paid. that would be sweet. yay for getting money for doing something i'd do for fun anyway!
i am tired now though. teaching that many people and driving for a few hours takes a lot out of me. and i got phone calls this morning from two different people about an hour and a half apart waking me up so i didn't get as much sleep as i would have liked. oh well. i can sleep when i'm dead i guess. tomorrow is going to be a long day. didn't get much in the way of work done today so i'll be busting my ass getting my project done tomorrow. oh, i have to grade papers too, since i promised my students all their labs would be handed back monday. sigh. tomorrow i'll finish my map (almost done!) and write the paper and begin the powerpoint. monday night will be editing the paper and going over the powerpoint presentation. weee... at least it's a cool project.
erin got (and liked!) her birthday present i sent her. i gave her my hawaii painting. painting is good. maybe i'll do one in a couple of weeks once my geology of mars project is turned in. i believe it's due dec 6. that will be a super day. no more classes till finals after that day. i think going out and doing something that night will be in order. definitely not minigolf at the place where i go for batting cages. kristen and i went there last night and it was the worst minigolf experience i've had. the course was just pathetic.
anyway, i think i am going to go collapse so hopefully i'll have enough energy to do everything i need to tomorrow.
recap: stargazing is awesome, i'm tired, lots to do tomorrow, need to finish my planetary geology project, erin got her birthday present, can't wait till dec 6, time for bed. 'night all.
i am tired now though. teaching that many people and driving for a few hours takes a lot out of me. and i got phone calls this morning from two different people about an hour and a half apart waking me up so i didn't get as much sleep as i would have liked. oh well. i can sleep when i'm dead i guess. tomorrow is going to be a long day. didn't get much in the way of work done today so i'll be busting my ass getting my project done tomorrow. oh, i have to grade papers too, since i promised my students all their labs would be handed back monday. sigh. tomorrow i'll finish my map (almost done!) and write the paper and begin the powerpoint. monday night will be editing the paper and going over the powerpoint presentation. weee... at least it's a cool project.
erin got (and liked!) her birthday present i sent her. i gave her my hawaii painting. painting is good. maybe i'll do one in a couple of weeks once my geology of mars project is turned in. i believe it's due dec 6. that will be a super day. no more classes till finals after that day. i think going out and doing something that night will be in order. definitely not minigolf at the place where i go for batting cages. kristen and i went there last night and it was the worst minigolf experience i've had. the course was just pathetic.
anyway, i think i am going to go collapse so hopefully i'll have enough energy to do everything i need to tomorrow.
recap: stargazing is awesome, i'm tired, lots to do tomorrow, need to finish my planetary geology project, erin got her birthday present, can't wait till dec 6, time for bed. 'night all.
