Nu-kyew-lar

A lot of great things happened today!

I showed my GIS professor my map, and he said it would be good enough for his project. At last! I know what my second map is for sure. It only took until a week before the thing is due... But yay! It's done. I need to make it look pretty in Illustrator, and then also make my first map look pretty. Then it's just the report...

Meanwhile my focus will switch completely over to my strat paper. Ugh...

Anyway, after GIS class I went to meet with my hydrofracking professor. It turns out my Itasca contact is the same as his Itasca contact!! Small world. He told me also to just focus on one basin and to do a quality, in-depth analysis of it. I like that a lot better. So my thesis is coming along, but it's doubtful I'll have time to give my proposal presentation before the end of the semester.

In the geothermal team meeting today, this really entertaining guy Wes was giving a presentation on where he's at with his thesis. He pronounced nuclear "nu-kyew-lar" and then my adviser called him out on it. He then proceeded to talk in a Texan accent in imitation of our former president...

Then our department went out for sushi, and there was more discussion of funny accents. Apparently North Dakotans also say "nu-kyew-lus" instead of nucleus. Nukyewlus... ahahaha. Plus we got into arguments about how much bacon sucks. At least Wes was with me there and I wasn't the only one who hates it.

This one guy Jay was there, and he turned out to be interested in the symphony. I told him about our upcoming concert, and he gave me his number and told me to text him the details. Interesting... well he's not married as far as I can tell.