My speakers arrived! When I came back on Sunday, I had left them at home, so Mom mailed them to me and they came yesterday. I’m very tickled with them, especially since I have noticeable bass now. My other ones were good while they lasted, but they got to where they wouldn’t come on anymore, and they never had a subwoofer anyway.

I’m excited about Firefox 1.5 for two reasons: they incorporated the drag-and-drop tab feature, which I had used an extension for anyway because it’s just convenient as hell, and because they give you the option to have links that would ordinarily open in a new window (a huge pet peeve of mine) instead open in a new tab. Finally! Unfortunately, the Debian version is 1.0.4-2, and I’d rather have the Debian version than just a stand-alone that I downloaded myself, so that all the Debian-installed plugins and whatnot still function (such as Flash and Java).

I think I did okay on the physics test that I took yesterday morning. I always feel better about a test as soon as I’ve finished, and then it just goes downhill from there because I start second-guessing myself. Everyone’s talking about how rough it was, though, so that’s usually an indication that I’ll do well: I suck at the “easy” stuff. That’s how it always was in my calculus classes, at least, where I would do best later on in the year with the harder material.

I need to have done well on that test to keep my grade up. This semester has been really rough on me, grade-wise. I hear sophomore year is the hardest because it’s a weed-out year, so I’m hoping the rest of my time here isn’t so tricky. I won’t have finished all of my sophomore-level stuff after next semester, either, since I’ll be co-oping and not taking any classes. Sigh. I have a 3.7 GPA currently and I need to keep a 3.5 to keep my Presidential Scholarship (a.k.a. tuition paid).

My poor knuckles are dry and cracked like they usually are at this time of year. They’re very sore and I can’t tell you how much it burns whenever I wash my hands because of the soap. I’ve got to invest in some good moisturizer.

I helped Jess with some Perl and C++ stuff earlier and I was planning on helping Tiffany with her C++ program, but she’s not in her room. I’ve checked twice now, once at 5:30 and once about fifteen minutes ago, but no luck. Hopefully she’ll be back soon because I’d like to hang out with Scott and/or the guys. Speaking of whom, they’ve recently introduced me to Mario Kart on the Nintendo DS, which is a very fun little game. Reminds me a great deal of Wacky Wheels, an old PC racing game I played as a kid.

Illinois Pharmacists Balk at Contraception. Huzzah! Idiot pharmacists need to be shot.