Archive for October, 2002

Mi Ne Estas Tian Knabon!

Thursday, October 31st, 2002

Now Listening to: Track 4
Para Para Max 3

Today I went to software engineering and physics. I failed my physics quiz on inertia, but I was planning on it. I don’t understand torque, so it makes it hard to do so well on it. Then again, I figured out part of my problem just a second ago. Whatever. Tomorrow we start electricity and we’ll stick with that for most of the rest of the semester.

After lunch I checked my score on the software engineering exam retake. I got twenty-three more points than the time before. That’s just how shitty he teaches, considering I didn’t study for more than twenty minutes. My score is now a sixty-five as opposed to a forty-two.

Luke and I had a miracle session with this guy named Mike who’s really polite today. It lasted about three hours and we didn’t get the problems on mathematical induction done. I don’t get it, and Lord knows that Luke won’t either, since I don’t think he’s paid attention to any of the lectures on it yet. I’m going to work on it with my notes later. Hopefully that will help.

I’m learning correlatives in Esperanto now. That’s exciting, because it’ll boost my phrase count by a hell of a lot. Of course, knowing how to say things like “something,” “what,” “how,” and “that” isn’t exactly the kind of vocabulary that ideas are really built on. Still, I’ll be able to describe myself in a more intelligent manner than saying “La knabo estas bela. La knabo estas tre pura.” etc.

In other news, I found cute Hello Kitty bracelets at Target last night in the toys section. They were $2.99 and 20% off so they were only $2.39. Naturally, I had to own them. They’re fun.

Warm Fuzzies

Wednesday, October 30th, 2002

Now Listening to: Ojos Asi
Shakira

So I’ve completed my physics. Barely. This stuff is really hard, and it probably stems from the fact that they placed an exam the same week as a lab and began lecturing on it before the exam. So we heard about it Monday, then reviewed old stuff on Tuesday in recitation, then on Wednesday reviewed in lecture, Thursday there was no recitation, because we had an unrelated lab on Friday! They really weren’t thinking when they scheduled the labs and exams this time. They should be better coordinated. Labs should never be the same week as an exam, because there’s too much down time between concepts. That and no one ever does the homework the day after the exam, because it’s not due.

I got an e-mail from my speech instructor about my speech grade. She raised it. That’s right, bitch! Actually, she was really nice about it. I really like my speech instructor. She’s special and gets warms fuzzies today.

I haven’t started the Rational Rose homework for software engineering yet, and it’s due tomorrow. I’m hoping that I’ll have no troubles finishing it for some reason. Somehow, I doubt that. On the plus side, I did the first half of my discrete math for Friday. That means that I too can be helpful during the miracle session with Luke tomorrow.

As Final Fantasy IX music starts to play, I have a sudden urge to whip out the game. That game was just really good. It combined all of the neat things that they learned developing the game in three dimensions with all of the neat old-school stuff. The music reflects it, too. The overworld theme has lots of blips and beeps in it as to be heritage from the days of the NES. Final Fantasy IX gets warm fuzzies today.

I’mt trying to make sure that Andrew doesn’t get a LiveJournal. I don’t like them. They take too long to load, the design bores me when everyone I know has one, and if you’re not a LiveJournal user you can’t leave contact information in your comments (which is really annoying because you have to move this radio button every frickin’ time!). No warm fuzzies for LiveJournal today, but warm fuzzies to go out to the authors that I read from LiveJournal. I read them because I enjoy what they write, regardless of the meduim.

End fuzziness.