Worus

Last night I tried to install Windows 2000 on my computer. It took about three hours. Normall it would take something like thirty minutes (I’ve done it twice before), but this time Windows decided that it should delete my boot loader and make sure that the computer can only boot Microsoft operating systems. After the black screen reading “LI” at boot time, I worked with the Linux rescue disk to reinstall my boot loader and rewrite the options so that it would load Windows if I wanted to use Windows 2000, not because I had to use Windows 2000. Rarr.

I just had a really disturbing encounter with my French teacher from last semester. I saw him earlier today with Beth walking ot the Union for lunch, but we kept on walking. This time I found him in the bathroom and we both needed paper towels. I was basically forced to say hello to him and tell him that I was a Spanish student (he asked). Really, really ackward (sp?).

Things are good.

I was up until about four a.m. last night doing homework for computer engineering. I was at Beth’s until 3:30 a.m. or so. We did much computer engineering. However, she was trying to do physics at the same time with another girl. I don’t know how she could work on both problems at the same time and keep track of them. That just amazed me. Still, I kind of wish she hadn’t been doing both, because we would have probably finished sooner. Nevertheless, it was good times all around until the end.

Towards the end, I needed to draw six K-maps, which simplify functions of boolean algebra the best possible way. Unfortunately, when I was helping the old lady, that was the day that the professor discussed the concept in class. I was having a really difficult time with it. I just really wanted to give up. I couldn’t even copy the maps correctly, let alone determine the correct answer. Beth was super nice and helped me through it with much patience, though. I’m getting there. Yay for Beth.

Since I got so little sleep last night, I was nodding off in computer engineering lecture today. I managed to stay awake for all of it, but the last part of it I have no real recollection of. Not good times there, but I’m feeling better now that I’ve had some caffeine.

I tried to go to the math help room again. Of course, one would expect it to close at two in the afternoon on a Friday at a university, but not a Monday. The hours are different every day of the week, and Monday, of all days, it closes early. Rarr to that.

Dean sent me an e-mail, and I guess things are good between him and Kim again. They both talked about their differences and the things that they would like each other to work on. I was glad to hear that, because balancing the two of them separately could havbe been quite the hefty task. It’s not that I wouldn’t take it on, and it’s not that they should stay friends for my benefit, just that it does happen to be simpler for me. Whatever happens, happens, in my opinion. It was just really nice to get that message from Dean, though. He talked about stuff a bit in it, and it just made my day. Much happiness at the moment.