I just returned from an outing to Wal-Mart with Jessica. Yay for grocery shopping. I’m now stocked up with Vanilla Coke, bread, soap, a pair of sweat pants, and various other items.

I believe being surrounded with politics and economic discussion has gotten to me; I’m on some kind of political kick. I purchased The Social Contract by Rousseau (translated by Maurice Cranston) yesterday and have been reading it without boring myself to tears, to my great surprise. The ideas he has remind me a lot of those discussed in The Republic by Plato; maybe I can bring that up in honors while we’re still covering Plato. Today, I talked with James in calculus recitation about my recent surge in interest for such reads and he recommended Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, both of which are now on my Amazon Wish List.

I have calc. homework that isn’t due until Tuesday but I should start on it tonight in preparation for a quiz tomorrow. I could work on my Spanish composition some tonight, too, although that’s not due until Monday. Wow, that’s really all the homework I have tonight. Jess and I had planned to go out to dinner tonight (it’s a new month so we can eat at a nice restaurant again!) but I backed out of that because I was thinking I had a great deal of homework. Crap.

I’m going to have to go on a diet and do more sit-ups. I noticed this morning when putting my jeans on that I have more flab on my stomach than I used to; this cannot happen! I will not be one of those girls that has the whole jelly roll thing going on when they wear tight pants.

I tried calling Jess this morning to see if she wanted to skip CS 115 with me but, alas, I couldn’t get a hold of her so I went on to class. We ended up leaving at the beginning anyway, though, as soon as we had turned in Program 2 and signed the attendance sheet. Ha! The first class I’ve ever skipped; I feel liberated. Not that this will become a regular thing, mind you. That class is a giant lecture with 125 students and we always go over things I already know how to do. I mean, come on, we just covered if statements last week and it was, what, eight weeks into the semester?

Speaking of CS 115, I need to finish the algorithm for Program 4 so that I can submit that thing. I hate writing out those damned algorithms, though. I’ll get around to it. The program itself isn’t due until November 18 but I always get them turned in early. Can’t let myself slide in that respect. :P