Well, my EE test is over with. Jess and I talked about it walking out and feel we got at least a C. We probably ended up with B’s… or at least we hope. We had seventy minutes in which to do it and it definitely took all that time. When my professor announced that there were twenty minutes left, I still had about three pages that I hadn’t done. The stuff was pretty straight-forward and wasn’t difficult, but I think I got confused on some parts, like one and two’s complement conversion (flip all the bits for one’s, flip all the bits and add one for two’s?). There wasn’t a single adder on the test, though, which annoys me because I studied those and am pretty confident in how to draw them. I was really expecting to have to draw one of the hierarchical carry-lookahead adders just because they’re kind of complicated, but nope. The last problem was figuring out the equation for F(x, y, z) based on a CMOS circuit which was something we’d never had on a quiz, homework, or discussed in class, so I just kind of winged it.

In happier news, I made a whopping 30/30 on my calculus test, so I’m stoked (thank you, Ashlee, for your crazy vocabulary). I don’t know how I avoided making any stupid mistakes (leaving out a negative, not differentiating e^x correctly, whatever), and I’m really glad I remembered how to correctly find the equation of a plane based on three different coordinate pairs. The guy next to me in recitation, which is where we got our tests back, had a 16/30 and asked me if I thought there’d be a curve. Keeping my paper face down, I just kind of shook my head and said I didn’t think so. I wonder how many others got perfect scores. I know of one 29/30, two 27/30′s, and one 24/30.

I spent about two hours on my part of the physics lab report last night, writing up equations for propagation of error, percent error, F_x and F_y, etc. I finally got it sent to Chris, the principle investigator this time, at about 11 and went to hang out with Todd and Brent. We watched an episode of Farscape (my first time ever seeing the show–it was enjoyable) and then sat around talking while I ate some breakfast toaster dealies because I hadn’t eaten much dinner that night–I’d been too busy studying EE and marveling over how the kitchen staff hadn’t put cheese in their pigs-in-blankets.

So now I have physics lab at 4 today and then I’m free free free! Tomorrow is our fall break so no classes; I’ll be working four hours because I wanted to sleep in this morning, so I didn’t work any today. I need to call my cousin and get a report on my Volvo, to see if it’ll be ready this weekend for me to do anything with it. If it is, I can maybe take it home Sunday, because I really want to go shooting with the boys and just relax around Lexington a bit. I actually got to talk to my parents the other day because I’d left a message on my brother’s cell phone and Mom called me back. I didn’t recognize her voice at first because Jess and I were standing in the mall where it was, of course, noisy. We’d just ordered Tony a shirt saying “Drugs are for Losers” for his birthday and were trying to kill time while Cosmic made it.

Chris let me borrow Sin City, which I’m very excited about considering it looks cool and it has Tarantino as a guest director, and then I have a CD canister of Star Trek episodes that I’ve borrowed from Todd. I hope to start on those this weekend; maybe Ashlee will be around and she can join me, though I really doubt Star Trek is her thing. It’s not really my thing, either, but I told Todd that as a geek I should probably like it, so I’d give it a chance.

I got a phone call this morning from Doug, Ashlee’s boyfriend, telling me that Ashlee needed a tampon and would I please run downstairs with one for him to take back to her. Interesting wake-up call, I’ll give you that. Apparently Doug commented later to Ashlee that it was “kind of like a drug deal.” I went ahead and stayed up afterward because Chris had sent me a panicky email saying that he thought some of our figures for physics lab were off. They were, but we decided to keep them because 1) they’re close to the actual numbers and 2) it was too late to go back through everybody’s separate parts and change them. We talked on the phone for a bit but never did figure out how April had gotten those numbers to begin with. Weird stuff.