Worus

The speech final today was a lot harder than I had anticipated. I probably studied thirty minutes. I’m sure I still got a decent grade, but I was just expecting something that required much less mental energy. This is not to say that I exerted great amounts of mental energy on it, it’s speech for God’s sake, but that it was more than I was wanting to.

The miracle session with Luke was kind of a bust today. We tried to pay attention to discrete math, but it was just hard. We got through some example problems on functions and Luke said, “Julian, you’re all tired from physics, and I’ve been reading Shakespeare for the last two days straight…” So I finished the sentence and suggested that we get together tomorrow, which we shall do.

We got project grades in for software engineering. We got 100 on everything except for the requirements document, where we got a 75. After all of the weights were applied, the final grade was a 93.75%. Then he gave us a bonus 2%, so the real grade we’re getting is a 95.75% on that 45% of our grade. I’m very excited! This means that I can get an A in that class if I do well on the final. If I can get an A in speech and software engineering, it will counter my C in physics and give me a 3.0 this semester, not counting my discrete math final.

I want a B in discrete math. I’m gonna have to study hella hard to get it. We’ll see.

Tonight was the Wal-Mart people Christmas dinner. It was filled with Biaggi’s goodness. It was not that exciting for me, but I still enjoyed myself. It was important to Dean that I be there for some reason. I’m glad I could do it for him.

I switched my window manager to Enlightenment for shits and giggles this evening. I must say that Enlightenment has come a long way since 1997. It’s way usable. I think I may like it better than the general GNOME desktop. Of course, GNOME applications rock my world. I’m hoping to get GNOME running with Enlightenment as the window manager.

Metacity is only a mediocre window manager, and if I were the GNOME team, I would have stuck with Sawfish as the default window manager instead of Metacity. It’s not that Metacity isn’t usable, but it has its quirks with window placement. I guess I’d use any of the three, and maybe even Window Maker or AfterStep.

I don’t have any finals tomorrow, so I’ll mad study all day.

Now Listening to: Song of Mana (Ending Theme)
Legend of Mana OST

I just finished my physics final. I’m so glad to have that done. Now I can go home and review for speech briefly and play with my broken computers. I’m just want something to work. I’m not sure what I’m going to do, because I think that the motherboard on my computer is dead. This is of course, a diagnosis without even opening the case.

I’ll see when I get there, and hopefully make something workable so that I can have a computer until I order a new one. Of course, I’d only order a new one of the old one was beyond my expertise of repair. It’s all quite variable at the moment.

The system is the third law pair of computers. Apply Newton’s third law.