"We're going to have to move past Fourier transforms and start thinking about quantum mechanics."

Tonight I watched part of Transformers when I got home, partly because I want to be Optimus Prime when I grow up (note the present tense, I STILL want to be Optimus Prime if I ever grow up) and partly because the scientific-based dialogue is so epically awful that I feel much smarter and better about myself after I've watched it.  Don't let the poorly verified writing take away from just how awesome this movie is though...there's a lot of shit that gets blown up, not as much as Transformers II, but still a lot of shit that gets blown up....and did I mention Optimus Prime.....

I needed the little smartness boost after my Spectroscopy class.  I couldn't remember first-year chemistry or physics for the life of me, and I honestly haven't taken a chemistry class since my first first-year.  For those in-the-know, that's 11 years ago.  I'm not even sure if the shit they tried to teach me is still fuckin' relevant.  Either way, I have this sinking feeling that I sold my first-year phys-chem and organic-chem textbooks.  I'm kind of wishing that I had enough foresight to hang onto those little (or big....I think that's why I sold them....) buggers. 

To help myself feel better I got a textbook on basic spectroscopy and quantum mechanics from the library.  Did you know that you can get books out for a 9-month period.  The two texts aren't due until SEPTEMBER!  Yay!  I just hope that they're useful and I don't lose them in the meantime.

I had a good teaching day today even if the class content was a little dry.  The first few classes are about foundational theory, and I try to make it as interesting as I can, but a lot of the time you get lost in the subject matter and it's really hard to make it fun.  I think I'll throw an example at them on Thursday, get a little more discussion and have fewer people fall asleep.  I'm pretty sure I'm not the boring one.  Hell, most days I'm my own three-ring-circus....audience included, but today was an exception.  Hopefully I can liven it up for Thursday.  Maybe sleep will help....

....but not until after a little bit of internetting.  When I was hunting for a picture of Optimus Prime, I found this.  It's pretty awesome.  Now I really want to be Optimus Prime......really.