It's just that I've been helping with project for the Octobori, and it's been taking up a lot of time. Jeremy came up with the formula this summer, and I helped some but really he did most of the work because I don't know as much about how to model energy transference and there are all sorts of angles and things to factor in too.
Anyways. It needs checking, and all these permutations done on it to see what the results would be under different conditions, and each permutation takes hours to complete, and then I've got to double check it. And it's absolutely got to be finished by the end of the month.
And it's sort of
I wish Fitz could check my work. Or Professor Vector. I'll probably run it by Professor Sinistra, only I'll have to explain the formula so she'll know what to look for because it's not really her area and I'm not sure I can explain it well enough, but it's very important I get it right otherwise it could be very, very bad so Jeremy has what he needs and doesn't have to fix any mistakes.
I really had a very good time. And it was good of Daphne to think of it. I hope I didn't come off as rude.
I would think Professor Sinistra would be able to check for you -- I mean she did an Arithmancy NEWT, she wouldn't have been able to get a Mastery in Astronomy otherwise! But yeah, it's a shame Professor Vector isn't one of us.
I had a good time, too. Daphne's right, we do a lot of PMs. Of course, here I am, PM'ing you. But I didn't want to put you on the spot in front of everyone, especially since your parents AND your brother are all in the Order as well. (And of course Ron doesn't want Bill leaping in to give him advice and he doesn't want his Mum worrying. Sometimes I wish my Mum had a journal, other times I feel lucky she doesn't...)
Sometimes it's wonderful, sometimes it isn't. And it's so very odd to have Artie being a part of things now too. I've spent such a long time not telling him things, you know.
Daphne did have a point, yes, but it's hard to carve out privacy sometimes too, isn't it? Or sorting out when someone really wants advice or support, or just wants to be left well enough alone. I admire what Hydra's doing so very much, for one, but sometimes I don't know what I can say without coming off as utterly incapable of understanding what she's going through.
Yeah, that's just it. I mean I don't want her to have to reassure me.
Back my second year I got cruciated by Lana Sandoval because Amycus Carrow thought I was spying on that thing he was doing with the rats. It was bad enough getting cruciated but then afterward I had to reassure Pansy, and then Morag because she heard it happen and went into hysterics (at least I could do that by journal). It was exhausting having people fretting about it.
My favourite reaction was Jeremy, actually, he didn't say a word to me at the time but at the quidditch match the next weekend he sat in Sandoval's favourite spot and when she tried to get him to move he said, 'what are you going to do, cruciate me? or do you save that for twelve-year-old girls?' Because I didn't have to say anything, or do anything. I mean if he'd told me in advance what he was planning I'd have had to try to talk him out of it, you know? But he didn't. It was odd. Made me realise he wasn't as bad as I'd thought.
Anyway that was a bit of a tangent. Sorry. I guess I'm just saying I don't want to add to Hydra's burdens but it's hard to show concern without doing exactly that.
And yes. Professor Sinistra should be able to help. I think I've been too focused on doing everything myself. Or worried about being a bother. Which I shouldn't be.
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Date: 2014-09-15 04:45 am (UTC)It's just that I've been helping with project for the Octobori, and it's been taking up a lot of time. Jeremy came up with the formula this summer, and I helped some but really he did most of the work because I don't know as much about how to model energy transference and there are all sorts of angles and things to factor in too.
Anyways. It needs checking, and all these permutations done on it to see what the results would be under different conditions, and each permutation takes hours to complete, and then I've got to double check it. And it's absolutely got to be finished by the end of the month.
And it's sort of
I wish Fitz could check my work. Or Professor Vector. I'll probably run it by Professor Sinistra, only I'll have to explain the formula so she'll know what to look for because it's not really her area and I'm not sure I can explain it well enough, but it's very important I get it right
otherwise it could be very, very badso Jeremy has what he needs and doesn't have to fix any mistakes.I really had a very good time. And it was good of Daphne to think of it. I hope I didn't come off as rude.
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Date: 2014-09-15 04:50 am (UTC)I would think Professor Sinistra would be able to check for you -- I mean she did an Arithmancy NEWT, she wouldn't have been able to get a Mastery in Astronomy otherwise! But yeah, it's a shame Professor Vector isn't one of us.
I had a good time, too. Daphne's right, we do a lot of PMs. Of course, here I am, PM'ing you. But I didn't want to put you on the spot in front of everyone, especially since your parents AND your brother are all in the Order as well. (And of course Ron doesn't want Bill leaping in to give him advice and he doesn't want his Mum worrying. Sometimes I wish my Mum had a journal, other times I feel lucky she doesn't...)
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Date: 2014-09-15 05:02 am (UTC)Daphne did have a point, yes, but it's hard to carve out privacy sometimes too, isn't it? Or sorting out when someone really wants advice or support, or just wants to be left well enough alone. I admire what Hydra's doing so very much, for one, but sometimes I don't know what I can say without coming off as utterly incapable of understanding what she's going through.
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Date: 2014-09-15 05:19 am (UTC)And, I don't know what to say to her, either. Only I do know I hate being fussed at. So I try not to do that.
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Date: 2014-09-15 02:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-15 02:49 pm (UTC)Back my second year I got cruciated by Lana Sandoval because Amycus Carrow thought I was spying on that thing he was doing with the rats. It was bad enough getting cruciated but then afterward I had to reassure Pansy, and then Morag because she heard it happen and went into hysterics (at least I could do that by journal). It was exhausting having people fretting about it.
My favourite reaction was Jeremy, actually, he didn't say a word to me at the time but at the quidditch match the next weekend he sat in Sandoval's favourite spot and when she tried to get him to move he said, 'what are you going to do, cruciate me? or do you save that for twelve-year-old girls?' Because I didn't have to say anything, or do anything. I mean if he'd told me in advance what he was planning I'd have had to try to talk him out of it, you know? But he didn't. It was odd. Made me realise he wasn't as bad as I'd thought.
Anyway that was a bit of a tangent. Sorry. I guess I'm just saying I don't want to add to Hydra's burdens but it's hard to show concern without doing exactly that.
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Date: 2014-09-15 05:04 am (UTC)