Marbled

202 liters of Diet Coke + 523 Mentos mints = loads of fun. I almost want to try it myself.

Science-Fiction Novel Posits Future Where Characters Are Hastily Sketched

::cackles:: Oh, The Onion, how I adore you sometimes.

Job plans are set. Same as last summer, only more so.

(5% more so, to be exact.)

Let me tell you about one of my morning classes, IOE 265: Probability and Statistics.

I would estimate that there are about ~130 students enrolled in this class. There's seating in this lecture hall for 150, and it was mostly full last Wednesday.

I have to estimate because... well, let me first make a confession. Occasionally, homework is due in class. Always on a Wednesday, but not every Wednesday. After the first couple of weeks of class, I just stopped showing up on days when homework wasn't due. What with the fact that it was a morning class, 9 AM to 10:30 AM, and the fact that I've never really enjoyed prob/stat, it just didn't seem worth it to drag myself to class without some tangible benefit to my grade at stake.

Last Monday, we had an exam, so naturally, we didn't have any homework due today. I decided, out of curiousity, to come to class anyway... see what it was like on non-homework days.

There are 26 students here, myself included. Less than a quarter of the class bothered to show up.

The teacher seems oblivious. I suspect she's just used to it by now.

I actually feel a little embarrassed.

I'll try to show up more often.

Damn you, Castle in the Sky theme! Why must you be so paralyzingly beautiful? I'm supposed to be programming, not holding still so I can hear every nuance of your harmony while chills run down my spine. You're not even from Miyazaki's best movie!

.

Let's see.

Joe Hisaishi
John Williams
Yoko Kanno
Marty O'Donnell
Yuki Kajiura
Bear McCreary
Koji Kondo
Howard Shore

Am I missing anyone?

This week was one of the most active, fun weeks I've had since the semester began.

Really kinda highlighted how much of a rut my life is in. ::grumble grumble::

In other news! When I got this tablet, I said that I'd be posting drawings more often. That was apparently a lie. So to make up for it, here's a ( Collapse ) Half of these are new from today (the blue ones,) while the others are some older favorites of mine.

Hmm.. 23 hours and 51 minutes late, but it didn't occur to me until now.

Highlights of the evening:

- Random woman approaching me and declaring, "Where would we all be without Panda Express? We would all starve!" to which I responded in between bites of Orange-Flavored Chicken, "indeed."

- Marathon of DDR after my final, which was very relaxing for such a physical activity.

- Eugene: "What the... the song says 'Go West,' but that's not west! That's up! That's like.... E cross N!"

- later, Eugene: "Check it out, my foot is exactly the diameter of this circle!" (hops on the circle a couple times, rotating his foot a quarter-turn each time) "Theta, phi, theta, phi..."

- My new favorite favorite commercial (Julie, remind me to tell you and Michael about it if you haven't seen it already. The 'car' commercial? 'It's used by the military...')

Lowlights of the evening:

- The blasted final exam. Twice as hard as I expected, and covering material from the entire semester (rather than just the most recent material, as I had been lead to believe.)

- Actually, that's pretty much it unless you define "evening" as "the past few days."

yyyyyeah. I definitely need to pop the stack/decompress/reorganize/whatever.

Not until after I finish this exam, though.

Is there a word for where you just sit down for a while, and take stock of everything that's been running through your head for the past few days/weeks/months, and try to sort it all out and figure out where to go on from there? Because I feel like I could really use one of those... not yet, of course. I still have a final exam impending, with the studying and the whatnot. But maybe later this week.