Not An Insomniac, Just A Party Girl

No, really, it's just that I LOVE to be awake at least once if not twice between the hours of 2am and 7am EVERY FREAKING NIGHT. If I were not awake during that time, my allergies would most assuredly suffocate me in my sleep otherwise.

Friday night was a fun time had at the monthly Crow/DMA Late Night event. I had a quick (much less than I intended) viewing of The Mourners. I then sipped a nice glass of (overpriced) wine while lamenting with Paul and Caroline their food needs. Mila and I finally could hear each other on the phone and I ran off with her, Katie, and Tabor to view The Crow Collection. Sadly, we missed Jeremy, Jamie, and brood. It's the brood part that was unexpected for them for the evening. To pass the time we acted like little kids (ALWAYS the joy of being an adult) in the kid-friendly, interactive Space Exploration exhibit. Then we sat through most of King Kong versus Godzilla. It was fantastically mockable. Afterwards was Sushi World for dinner. It's a nice little, 24-HOUR hole-in-the-wall place at the corner of Ross and Griffin that comes highly recommended. I snagged a sashimi with unagi roll bento box for $26 which was worth every lovely penny, and the chef/hostess threw in two unagi nigiri for free along with a coupon for two more unagi nigiri next time I come. I finally got home and to sleep at around 2:30am.



Saturday was spent sleeping. No really - I did absolutely nothing AND LIKED IT. Woke up at 6:30 (see above), back to sleep, awake at 11am, cereal for breakfast, a bit of internet chatter, a 30min day dreaming on the bed, a shower, a 2hr nap, cereal again at around 4pm for lunch, more internet chatter, and then getting ready for dinner.

Dinner last night was at the Boi Na Braza churrascaria, hosted by Anthony. Our guest of honor, the great Dr. Fiona, was unable to attend because I blame James of illness. We still had a nice party of 7 and ate ourselves into proper meat comas.

Tomorrow Later today I will be finalizing plans for the next two weekends, which should prove to be just as busy. Going away dinners for Sara Saturday and (hopefully) Fiona Sunday, and possibly more sushi Friday night - we shall see. The following weekend is Halloween Hootenanny Friday night (I still need a costume if I don't want to go as Holy again - although she was quite fun to pull off). I'll probably take the boys trick or treating around my parents' neighborhood the 31st, seeing as how my sister shouldn't be around to do so (see previous locked post if you don't know what I'm talking about). That just leaves the 30th, but really, another 1-2 days of recuperation might be in order right about then.

But I'm most definitely a major goof

Last night I was yet again faced with the task of explaining my bachelor's degree to someone I just met. Just as a refresher course, technically my degree is a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies (INTS), which tells you fuck all about my actual degree. INTS captures all the degree types that are not pre-created by the various schools. For instance, you could major in Politcal Media, which would require a lot of politics courses as well as a lot of media courses, but you don't want to major in just politics or just media. All INTS degrees require a minimum of three specialty areas that you specify and work out with your advisor who makes sure you are meeting all the requirements for graduation. One of my requirements for a BS versus a BA was a minimum number of hard science classes (which psychology does not count), so I had to include enough upper level math courses in my degree plan in order to get the BS distinction.

The INTS degree holder is someone who has technically minored in many yet majored in none. The major is the gestalt of the minors. (It's so much fun being able to use that word in a sentence.) So, my major is in Artificial Intelligence: Research and Development. My Areas of Concentration were defined as Research Methods, Cognition and Decision Making, and Modeling. I have an accounting* minor, a psychology minor (specifically, neural networks, neuroscience, judgment and decision making, and laboratory testing and devices), and a mathematics minor (specifically, matrices, game theory, discrete math, and multi-variate statistics). What I don't have, though, is a Chilean miner.

Oh, I kill me....

*I would have happily traded the accounting minor for the computer programming minor if I had the spare time and money to just forgo the umpteengajillion hours I had already accumulated as an accounting major before switching to INTS. It would have made a lot more sense and would have eased my current apprehension of applying to grad schools. However, my advisor and I were able to justify the accounting courses seeing as how just about anything created in the field of AI: R&D could be a potential marketable product, and being able to start and run a business based on that product could actually fit in the direct description that I had worked out for my degree. I think I was cheating a bit, but does it count as cheating if someone else signed off on it?