Today didn't start as early as I intended it to, and I didn't get to school til past noon. I did find a new topic for my steel design project. No more, ah, whatever it is, plastic hinge 3-D frame fire yadda yadda. I am now doing "Lifetime Performance Analysis of Existing Steel Girder Bridge Superstructures." This excites me infinitely more than my old topic. Basically I will be finding out how to determine the expected condition of any bridge of that type over time. Unfortunately, this will use a lot of statistics, but hopefully it won't be that bad. I am rather pumped, I must say.
Aside from this, the only other exciting thing I did today was have a word with one of my professors, she who is the head of the civil engineering department as well as an MIT alumna. So while talking to her my stomach just went "Blooo-ooop!" very loudly and she may now think I farted in front of her when really that is precisely what I did, only internally. It is a good thing she didn't laugh. I suppose with all the time professors spend with their students they've had worse, but perhaps none more so than the enormous fart I let rip during statistics class. I still feel a great deal of embarrassment whenever I think of that, and that happened nearly two years ago.
Aside from all this I was doing a little thinking earlier tonight, and I realized that perhaps I should try not to be so paranoid anymore. Maybe if I stop expecting everything to go to shit, I just might not...
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