Well since my last blog entry the snow has come and gone. It
only stayed around over night and was melted by the next afternoon. The weather’s
once again mild – very nice actually.
Other than the weather I’m not sure what to write about this
week. It’s been another one of those routine weeks where not a whole lot has
happened. Next week I’ll be in Beijing for another conference so I’m excited
about that.
I’ve been having these really strange dreams lately. I’ll be
dreaming that I’m back at Niagara College hanging out with the other Research
Assistants in the lab, then I’ll realize that I don’t know how I got there and
that I should be in Korea still. I go into a panic and wonder how I’m going to
get back here to get my things. This is the weird part, after I realize I
should be in Korea still someone walks in with a pet cat on a leash. It’s not
just a house cat though, it’s a tiger or a leopard or something, but a small
one – about the size of a German Sheppard. He assures me the cat is nothing to
be afraid of, but I can see in its eyes he wants a piece of me. Somehow he gets
loose of the leash and ends up on top of me digging his claws in. While I’m
pinned down trying to keep it away from my face I can still hear people
assuring me that it’s going to be fine, that the cat is friendly. Then I wake
up.
Weird right? I’ve had this dream about 5 times now. Each
time it’s slightly different. Sometimes we’re in the lab, sometimes we’re at
someone’s house, but it’s always the same people and the same thing always
happens.
I’m not much for dream interpretation, anyone have any
ideas? Has anyone at home recently purchased any exotic cats that I should be
aware of?
As far as lab work goes, I’ve finished my time in the LCD
lab and will be starting in the PDP (plasma display) lab next week. We were
working on a small project of making a small LCD panel consisting of a few
7-segment LCD cells that would be a clock when it was done. Unfortunately the
students are very busy right now and couldn’t come with me everyday into the clean
room so it didn’t get finished. It’s ok though – I had a few days of LCD theory
before we decided to build the clock so I understood the basics.
I have just over a month left here. It’s going to be a sad a
day when I have to go home. Although on the upside I was just checking some
websites and saw that gasoline prices have dropped to about 70 cents!!! What is
that?? It was about double that when I left... holy.
