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In my "Infomatics textbook" - which isn't a textbook, but the draft of the textbook as my proffesor writes it - the first 'ponderble' the question is the following:

When an earth climte scientist says she has a "global model" of the Earth, it might see lke a contradiction in terms. Explain why it is, but it isn't either.

It's a fairly easy question - It's because the model consits of the entire Earth, and it's common to refer to the Earth as a globelar model instead of a planetary or Terrian or Teullarian model. But it's also not globlar as it doesn't contain all the parts of a climate system, like the Sun's effect on climate.

But it's because he reffered to the climate scientist as a she. Yes, it is not English-standard correct to call an unknown person a she, but it makes me feel all fuzzy to hear about women scientists, even if they're mearly hypothetical ones.

And, I got invited to a dinner for WIC. I didn't go to the last one as I only learned about it a day ahead of time and had previous commitments. But, this one I can go to! Yays! Okay, not yays to find out that the entire female continget of both Infomatics and CS in IU is about 57. My class has about 12 women in it, out of about 80.

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Yeah, flipped the fuck out when I was changing for fencing today. I was in the HYPER, which is the older gym than the SRCS, and I decied to find the woman's lockers. So, the first floor's women's lockers are closed for construction as IU is turning into offices. So I end up going to the basement where the women's locker room is. So I changed, and was a little weried out by the general feel of the place, and run into the men's locker rooms. Or, the secondary men's locker rooms, as they get two.

And as I was rushing back upstairs, I kinda saw why there was two: for some reason, I was about one of about four women running around the HYPER today versus the at least a hundred guys just on the basket ball court alone. It was liked all the females decied to stay home today. I ended up going home after a half hour of fencing, most of which was just warming up because I think I got really, really dehydated, as got a headache and then felt like I was going to throw up.

But, all better now after two bottles of nasty powerade and some water. For some reason, everything I've drunken today has tasted horrible, even the bottled juice that I like tasted bad.