i wish i was a cat

they get to sleep like 19 hours a day, and all that is expected of them is to not hack up a hairball on anything expensive. and here i sit, staring at a series of hamilton's equations of motion trying to muster up the energy to type them in to that most horrible of programs, microsoft word equation editor. once all six are in, i can finally move on to writing the speaking notes for the last five slides of my presentation and get some sleep.

i still really need to find a good definition for the "r sub e" variable that appears in the morse potentials i used. my spectroscopy book uses it, even puts it on a potential well, but doesn't tell you exactly what it is. i think it's the bond distance at the minimum potential, but i'm not entirely sure.

i figured out today that the programming i was doing for the gauss-chebyshev quadrature is going to be a bit easier than i thought. i was having trouble with the subroutine calling, and the computational chemist at my school gave me some great tips on how to make the code run smoothly. i can't wait to have no other projects on the horizon [and i really should be studying for the GRE, which i intend to take in august], so that i can work on the program some more.