Review of the past day:
-Overslept
-Went to Music
-Sang with Jenn
-Went to CS Lecture
-Played Cards
-Ate
-Played Cards
-Watched Mulholland Drive
-Played Cards
-Ate Cake
-Went Home
More detail later. It's late. Gimme a break.
The Dismemberment Plan - Superpowers
Built to Spill - Made Up Dreams
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
AFI - The Lost Souls
Well, I realized that I haven't been updating this much, except with small messages indicating how tired I am. Then it hit me that the beauty of having a weblog is that you can update it from anywhere, so before my usual final destination of 6B22, I decided that I should go to the computer center and update. So, if you like, you can try and guess the big thing on my mind right now.
Physics. It's always physics, at least on Thursday night. Today is just more frustrating, because I haven't had the usual cycle of sucking complete ass on homework for some time. Usually I can struggle and then say "Oleg, help". But I was working in the library today for over an hour, and I didn't successfully solve a problem. It took me a good twenty minutes longer than the rest of my discussion section (albeit 6 people) to finish the fucking 4 questions we had to answer on this worksheet. Add to this the fact that we have a midterm in a couple of weeks, and I'm pretty fucked. I don't even have a portable TA to lean back on. I don't even know what to do to study, since I'm clearly so bad at even the most simple tasks. It might have helped had I gone to lecture today, but I'm confused and tired there too, so it's just a whole world of suck.
Perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that I'm not doing well in any of my other classes. Well, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement, but I'm doing poorly. I failed my first couple of Music assignments, I failed my first Math quiz, I probably failed my first two Math homeworks, I have 2 huge assignments for CS, and I refuse to read the book because I hate it, MCB is so easy that fucking up would imply something very, very bad (plus we haven't done anything yet), and then you know the story about physics. Maybe I'll start going to those tutoring sessions that they offer in Classroom A. I was hoping things would be better this semester, because everyone would be just as clueless as me. But lo and behold, they took this in Chemistry last semester, so everyone (myself excepted) knows how to do this shit. Damn, I really hate physics.
On a different note, I really like music, and I've been buying CD's at a rapid rate recently. Something like 5 in the last week, which is just astounding for me, since I don't usually buy much. I've been having long conversations over e-mail with a quite unexpected person from Florida. That's been interesting, and taking up most of my non-study and non-6b22 time, which isn't a whole lot.
Ah, I went to the SSDP meeting a couple of days ago, and while it seems small and generally ineffectual, it will probably be a good time too. Haven't been back to radio, but I promised Mona Meatball I would teach her how to play "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" on the guitar, which should be fun. Let's see...aside from sleeping through class and agonizing over physics, today's been pretty good. That is, my MCB lecture was pretty good. Now I've got to go and beg Oleg to help me with physics, and if I'm extraordinarily lucky I can forgo the cathartic moment when I realize that I have no brain.
Well then. After kind of an emotional powerhouse of posts (2, I think), I'm kind of dry. But that's OK, because spending an hour updating my weblog is not really the best way for me to use my time.
I've been spending lots of time over at 6B22, but that's not really a big change. It's cool to have a cohesive atmosphere over there, something that seems painfully lacking at Bowles Hall. If I don't start doing my homework at a reasonable time, though, it seems like my grades might start be painfully lacking as well.
I mean, I have a math quiz today for which I'm only partially ready. All that damn plane shit. Tuff to remember it all, it's quite unfortunate that we don't get notecards. Today's also my absurdly long day, and it's even longer because I want to go to the Students for Sensible Drug Policy meeting at 7:30 @ 2038 VLSB. Gotta remember that. 2038 VLSB. Also, the Distance from a point to a plane is:
|ax + by + cz + d|
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sqrt^(a^2 + b^2 + c^2)
At least I certainly hope it is.
I went to KALX yesterday, and it was actually really great. There are a few people that I vaguely know, and then there's Mona Meatball, whom I know quite well. Mona was talking about the prostitute that used to live in the bush across the street from her, and she mentioned that she was gone and hoped she found someplace warm. KALX is so cool. So now I know Pamelyn Woo and Lauren Erria. That's not to say I didn't know them before, but now I know their names. Thanks Daily Cal! They came in and took pictures of us that they're probably not going to use. Whateva. Oh, but KALX is uncool because they do not like Harry Potter. Pff. I *loved* Harry Potter. I don't like the vacuous assault of HP products, but that doesn't mean the books were bad. It means they were fucking great. When's the last time a children's book got the attention of Pokemon? Yeah, quit your bitchin'.
Archers of Loaf - Floating Friends
The Revolutionary Hydra - Where We Intersect is Collide
Julian Cope - Reynard the Fox
Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehechaan Ho
John Gorka (w/ Alison Krauss & Union Station) - No Place to Hide
