busy but feelin’ good

Yesterday flew by because I somehow had a lot more work to do than I thought. I worked out on Todd’s bike machine then the two of us went to have lunch with Bentley and his girlfriend Erin. She seemed nice and was definitely not the quiet little thing I was worried about; while not as zany as Bentley, she had a sense of humor and was talkative. After lunch, I had planned to spend maybe an hour finishing off my part of the physics lab report. B.S.! Somehow, several hours slipped by and at 3 I was calling Todd to take a break. I ended up working on that thing until maybe 4 in the evening, but then noticed that there was a discrete math assignment posted that’s due Wednesday. This was a problem because he posts both the date the assignment was posted and the date it’s due, and the ‘date posted’ was the 15^th. B.S. again! I’ve checked that page every day for the past week because he said he’d be giving us one soon, and it didn’t show up till yesterday, the 18^th. I emailed him, griping, and he came back with an understanding tone. Apparently, he’s been having trouble with the UK server caching pages and not showing the latest versions; he actually did post the assignment on the 15^th. He asked me what I thought he should do about the problem; I suggested he email us when assignments go up. From now on, that’s what he’s going to do. Anyway, I spent the rest of the evening, till about 7:30, finishing that assignment. It dealt with counting, the product rule, combinations, and permutations, and I actually found it fun. …And that’s such an insane statement for me to make about discrete math that I just don’t know what to do with myself.

Today has also been busy, even though it’s normally a relaxed day for me since I only have two classes. I decided to go to work today, for one thing, and doesn’t “I decided to go to work today” just make me sound like a bum? Let me explain: Dr. Jaromczyk, being a professor and specifically being one of my professors, is very understanding and allows me to set my own hours. I typically just work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Today, however, I got out of physics lab early aaand I enjoy money, so I hit up the lab for a couple hours. Physics lab was a big improvement today. It was a draft-review day, so we didn’t have an actual lab, but apparently Dr. Ellis has been listening to our complaints because today we didn’t all have to sit around sweltering in that damn hot room while our T.A. graded our reports. We were assigned times to come back and see him, so I got to go to the library for an hour and do other homework. I’m now going to finish my microcomputer organization assignment as well as my algorithms homework.