CFD and workout hunger

Headline from MSN:
"The secret, exciting lives of engineers"
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/adultlearning/?article=EngineersDoWhat>1=8648

Before I clicked on the link, my first thought was that someone on MSN had found my blog. My second thought was that Ryan had sold his pilot and we engineers would finally get our chance at sitcom stardom. After reading the article, I thought to myself, “Well, being an airbag research and development engineer is fun too. Maybe they should interview me.” Then I clicked a link from the article about how much money engineers make and got pissed because I am being paid at the peon percentile for my occupation. Oh well, you can’t have everything. And it’s hard to put a price tag on liking your work and being excited about going to work everyday. Or at least, most days. Or even less, not hating your job. I just hope I get to keep my job.

Today at work I was doing some number crunching for my pet project which is a concept I’m patenting. Sooooo fun. I made some observations and then wanted to figure out how to explain them mathematically. So I tried a bunch of things and wasn’t having any success and then re-ran the numbers a couple times and finally got almost exactly what I was looking for. I ended up titling the results, “A Crude Calculation” because the numbers are so rough. But I also considered calling it a “Poor man’s CFD study” (Computational Fluid Dynamics for the non-nerds), a “Dumb Girl’s CFD”, or “CFD for Dummies.” But calling it CFD is a bit of a stretch as it is…

Last night on the treadmill, it had been over 2.5 weeks since my last workout at the gym. Oops. I was busy playing softball and going to Vegas and being sick. Oddly enough, I also hit a new low weight last week (the lowest I’ve been in about 2 years). But I promise it wasn’t from being sick. I think it was from tricking my body into thinking that I was going to work out, so my metabolism was accelerated (not retarded), but then I wasn’t all that hungry, because I hadn’t worked out. Working out makes me really really hungry. Like, gnaw off my arm hungry. I think I’m disciplined enough to keep working out but I don’t know how to battle hunger very well. Especially with all the food from Sunday’s cooking extravaganza in my fridge.