Ahh! [ Thursday, November 13, 2003 | 9:29 a.m. ] I just woke up this morning and looked out my window and... everything is covered in snow! A quick check of the weather yielded some additional information: it's 0°C outside right now, or -9 with the windchill, we can expect 2 to 5 cm of snow today, and we're under a severe wind warning (I can hear that, it sounds like jets are flying by a few metres from our house), which, combined with all the snow, could cause near zero visibility. Fun, eh? Now the question is, should I still bike to school? Under normal conditions, it takes me 10 minutes to bike to MC, and 25 minutes to walk. Ehh. I think I'll walk this once.

[ Monday, November 10, 2003 | 10:29 p.m. ] I feel like shit right now. I just caught up on reading Nex's blog, which I hadn't read since September, and it made me acutely aware of my own misery. I'm sure there's an explanation. I mean, I'm not usually like this. It's probably just that I've only eaten one or two decent meals in the last two days. Something doesn't feel right in the region of my stomach. (I should really keep some food on hand for situations like this. I wish I lived on campus and I was always a quick skip away from Mudie's.) I'm distracted and I don't feel like working. I've suddenly been hit strongly with the feeling that I don't get a thing being taught to me in my classes, so I mindlessly copy down anything written on the board while playing with my PocketPC in the pauses. At the moment it's hard to tell whether I'm hitting the point in the term when I just stop caring, or my physical crappiness is causing similar symptoms. In any case, I'm going to bed. I miss Sean.

[ Monday, November 10, 2003 | 10:12 p.m. ] "For Residence Life staff a major challenge will be to get students to have fun and socialize (a contrast to the 90s when controlling over-partying was a major concern)."  --Report from the Younger Students Committee [I really don't recommend reading the rest of the report; that's the only funny part.]

I Rule the Eighties [ Saturday, November 8, 2003 | 2:34 a.m. ] Final Score: 99.6 [Actually, I think I was right on the cusp between Pop Junkie and The 80's are my LIFE. My original score didn't return a proper image. (It was "/.jpg".) If I changed one of my right answers to a wrong answer, it gave me the first image. If I changed one of my wrong answers to a right answer, it gave me the second image. To be on the safe side, I went with the lower one. The cutoff's probably 100, and I'm 0.4 off.]

Also.. [ Wednesday, November 5, 2003 | 9:25 p.m. ] Happy Birthday, Adri! Congratulations. You are old. (Luckily, I'm still more than a month away from oldness.) By the way, sorry to the people whose birthdays pass without any mention. Since I'm at school now, birthdays are written on my calendar, which sits above my desk, constantly taunting me with evaluations and deadlines. On work terms, I just drift along with the days.

Ugh. [ Wednesday, November 5, 2003 | 4:48 p.m. ] I just got murdered by the stats quiz. I suppose I've learned my lesson, though. Studying is good. Not studying is bad. I will study more for the last one. (It's best four out of five, so if I do better on the last one I can drop this one.) Unfortunately, things are starting to involve calculus. If I want to do well on the last quiz and the final, I'll need to re-learn integration. I haven't integrated anything since MATH 138 in Spring '02. *sigh* I don't like calculus. I'm not looking forward to that. Well, I've got a CS 246 assignment due in 29 hours, time to get to work. P.S. MC 2061 is my new home. [Note: The sum over n from 0 to infinity of (x^n)/(n!) is e^x you absolute fucking dimwit.]

[ Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | 11:41 p.m. ] I can't fucking believe it. Remember my big co-op rant, with the main message being that I'd see you in Continuous Phase? Well, yeah. Turns out I've been matched with the one job that ranked me. Crazy. The luck of the Ter-Rat strikes again. Now I'm just worried about whether I can do the job... (It'll also be weird not having Dave (DBE) as my coordinator. I've had him for all three of my work terms up until now.) Oh, and more immediately, I'm worried about what I'm going to do with my room. I know I'm going back to Toronto now, so I need to find a subletter (or, worse comes to worst, eat the $1600 loss). So if anyone out there needs, or knows someone who needs, a room in Waterloo for the winter term, drop me a line. The house is a 15 minute walk to the edge of the UW campus, 25 minutes to places at the other end like MC or the SLC. (It's less with the shortcut, but I don't use it, since that would involve jaywalking across Westmount.) It's a 10 to 15 minute bike ride to pretty much anywhere on south campus. We're also less than 5 minutes from a bus stop that I've never used. The house is a three-bedroom townhouse in a student complex at Amos & Churchill. The bedrooms are all on the top floors, no basement crap, and there'll be two cool Mathie girls living there next term. There's an abundance of parking, including one unused spot in our covered driveway. I believe the laundry is coin-op, though I've never used it. I pay $400 + utilities, so I'll offer it for less, of course, maybe $350 + utilities... Anyhow, enough of that. I need to come up with a decent ad and post it in the usual places. There'll be a glut of sublets on offer now, though, since the job match results have been posted. Argh. I was going to do a run-down of my midterms, but I'll save that for another night. I think I'm going to go to sleep. I spent most of the evening working on C&O 350 (meaning getting well acquainted with the Matlab debugger) and I haven't spent one minute studying for stats. Other things that I haven't done include the CS 246 assignment due Thursday night and showering. But everything has its time. I'm going to sleep now, while I'm still warm. Goodnight.

Non-content [ Monday, November 3, 2003 | 10:39 a.m. ] What's your sexual appeal? What movie do you belong in? Hello, my happy friend. You have high spirits and know how to have a good time. When your friends go out, most likely they invite you almost all the time. You most likely will enjoy your Halloween. Good for you. Keep up the experiment. You probably light people's dark days with your smiles and laughter. Although you're good, doesn't mean you're an angel. You can tend to have a scary and/or other type of side to you. As long as you have fun, do your scares this Halloween. Have a safe and happy one, Joyous Pumpkin. What Halloween Figure Are You?