Sorry, gotta vent a minute...

I'll apologize in advance for this one folks.  I just gotta get something off my chest.  So  a couple of days ago i mentioned in my post that i had to write my own chemistry test and turn it in last friday.  weeeelllllll, evidently i didn't write a hard enough test for myself.  I checked my grades today and saw a whopping C+!!!!!  Who in this freaking world gets a C+ in a self study course where the teach does absolutely NOTHING except give me chapters to read??????????????  Ok, so maybe you want a couple sample questions to see how easy this test was.  Your wish is my command:

Determine which polymer is likely to be most crystalline: syndiotactic polypropylene, lightly cross linked polystyrene, polymethylmethacrylate, or phenol-formaldehyde.  Justify your answer. Among the four polymers, which do you expect to be the strongest (mechanical strength)? Explain.

and another one:

Derive an equation for a time-temperature-transformation curve as a function of time, activation energy, critical size free energy of formation, volume fraction of crystal to liquid, molecular density, molecular jump frequency, and growth rate for heterogeneous nucleation.  Provide assumptions when necessary.  From this, derive an equation for the cooling rate required to avoid a given fraction crystallized.  Assuming the T-T-T curve shows us that the fastest cooling will be given at 250 K for approximately 5 ½ minutes, what is the activation energy for this ceramic solution, in eV?  If the actual activation energy is 10% lower, what is the temperature necessary for cooling for 5 ½ minutes?  Might this present a problem?

Ok, so maybe those were a little easy???????????  and now i'm done venting.  on to better things.  we stopped by our house today and saw the greatest sight known to man...or at least known to new home builders:

 

 

and as if that wasn't enough...we had the mantle and marble installed on the fireplace (the mantle is actually going to be painted white and not the actual wood color).

 

i don't want to end this post on the downswing, but seriously, if you're building somebody ELSE's house, are you going to smoke inside???  Nothing against smokers at all, i have lots of friends who smoke, but are you kidding me??  and i'm not talking about lighting one up for a minute before you step outside on your break...i'm talking about smoking to thte point that we had to leave the building (OUR HOUSE) because we couldn't take it...wow.  ok, back to a positive note...WE HAVE CABINETS DELIVERED!! YAY!!!!

Comments

[kim]

ppfffttt, i could answer those questions in my sleep. ;)

[jenny]

i stopped reading those questions because my brain was swelling.

if my builders were smoking in my house-to-be, i would probably have blown a gasket by now.

[Jaime]

ok, your questions were too hard to even read. moving on....

yeah, doesn't it suck that anybody who has anything to do with the building process, smokes? that's nothing trav. take no offense to this, but the mexicans working down here in our townhouse development smoke pot during the day. i kid you not, i saw/smelt it!! hahaha... i totally busted them out to the builder (our friend!). he's had to bust up some of their fights and warm them about the pot before!!

i know it is rude, but when you move in, you won't smell it. i think it has something to do with drywall mud, 3 coats of paint, and new carpet:) hehe...
I'M SO EXCITED FOR YOU!! Guess how far we are on our house? um yeah, still getting approved from the town on erosion control. grrr....

[Jessica]

i can't believe you actually typed that stuff out and expected us to read it. ha ha! i would have gotten an "A", btw...

and i DO have something against smokers. they suck! you're just being nice.

house looks awesome. i'd leave the mantle wood colored. of course you are going to do what you want!

miss you guys!!!!!!

[jessica]

p.s. HIJACK alert!! i have to tell jaime - we had some mexican roofers when we replaced our roof after the storm a couple years ago... they were the BEST workers i've ever seen! they did not come down from there even to EAT. for two days. the guy who owned the company (trav - it's russ) said the white crew he had were lazy... maybe it was because the mexicans were illegal and didn't want to be sent back? LOL!! ok, only on travis' blog do you get some exciting mexican controversy!! ha ha!

[stacy]

love the mantel wood color....how exciting though! i wanna a build my own house, sounds like fun!