You know those days when everything goes wrong?
Summary of today... 3am ish start thanks to unwell child. Discovering the brilliance of Wheelchair rugby thanks to TV at 4 in the morning was a perk though. Pre sun up lecture planning session, as complex impedance wasnt quite complex enough. This resulted in baffled students thanks to imaginary numbers... (Student: "You expect us to be able to add up vectors that arent in phase, where the phase difference is not determined?". Me: "*long string of semi coherent caffine fueled algebra that is actually easy if you know what a triangle is*"... Student: "WTF?"). This developed into issues with the average level of literacy displayed by your average person in thier late teens - Uranium decays into the lesser known element Radar apparently. Coursework stress, where a student who wasnt even enrolled when a particular assignment was set started hassling me for a paper to use as credit on a different course even though it cant possibly exist. After a dissapointing canteen lunch where the canteen ran out of food (apparently its hard to feed 1700 people each day) I was presented with faulty apparatus thanks to technicians mislabelling things, wasting an afternoons lab session. When I get home I have to rush my wife to the hospital eye department after our elder daughter poked her in the eye hard enough to cut her cornea, causing all manner of fluids that should be in her eye to be coming out of her eye. Car problems involving a wheel bearing on the way home. Picking up the kids at way past thier bedtime thanks to hospital waiting time, only to find they were covered in dogwater after wrestling it in the mud. Quite an eventful day all in all.
But at least I discovered wheelchair rugby. Watching those nutters slam each other is quite frankly beautiful. Not quite as good as the 15 man version, but then nothing is.