I'm not worried about finals week at all. Though I have two scheduled, the one I ‘care’ about is on Dec. 21, which is eons away. There's my cs373 final on Monday, but I came to this realization:
—everyone must have at least a 50% homework average to be in contention to pass
—everyone needs a bit above 25% overall to pass with a D-
—writing down ‘I don't know’ for any problem automatically gets the person 25% credit for that problem
—getting 50% and above on homework necessarily means that one's weighted average will be above 25% if one were to put ‘I don't know’ on all test questions
So, I'll show up in class on Monday and write ‘I don't know’ for everything and leave five minutes later. What I'm worried about is my homework average, which is just under 50% at the moment.
I have a journalism test on Friday, a proposal and report to edit by next Wednesday (along with preparing for a companion presentation), a programming assignment due Saturday (but I'll just get the answers from someone else).
In short, there are many holes in my schedule for the next ten days. If I'm smart, I will keep myself busy with things I can do now (proposal, report) and study journalism until Friday. And be relatively free next week. I can start messing around with some synthesizer software and other forms of creativity and feel a sense of accomplishment in improving myself (pending motivation and patience).
’This void’ has other contextual applications.
So the past several days have been rather dull, and I don't feel like updating really. In fact, I think I'm forcing myself to do this at the moment.
The family and I are planning on going to Florida in two weeks. Well, they want to go and they want me to come along. I don't want to, but then they probably won't go and I'll feel guilty for being a buzzkill. I'm just not excited to sit in a car for over twenty hours.
That, and I won't get to use my computer for a week. And instead of working four days a week as planned, I'll come back and work five days a week to make up for the week I took off.
I have some little projects I want to work on, to better myself. And Florida will kill a week of that playtime maybe.
Oh yes, my mom told me that Sharif mama (her brother) wanted to talk to me about something: I assumed he was going to try to talk me into getting a Ph.D, and we all had a good laugh, but no, he wants to talk to me and my older cousin about getting us married to Bengali girls.
I'm dreading that talk.
I'll laugh as they ask me and try to convince me, but it'll be painful, maybe, when I tell them I'm not looking to marry a Bengali girl for the sake of marrying someone from my country. I'm global. Even my parents know this, or if they don't, at least they'll let me make my own choice on who I choose to marry (through that non-existant process called ‘dating’).
Gotta study. Four hours until a music test I'm not totally prepared for.
Mykonos is now a restaurant I will try to eat at more frequently. It's a wonderful break from Chinese food. The gyro dinner (gyro with some unique cucumber sauce and grilled onions; Greek salad; french fries) and chocolate Grand Marnier cake are just too good. It'll make you slow, yes, but being slow is good sometimes.
And I bought a Cafe Toledo at TGI Friday's: coffee, Kahlua, and Bailey's Irish Creme. So now I need to buy Irish Creme again. And not drink during work, because Ian didn't seem too thrilled about the idea.
Today at work was like tackling a CS theory problem in a real-world context, and I liked it.
My mind is pumped. I might enjoy doing work tonight.
The days are long to pass and fast when passed.
I finally watched Akira, and I'm impressed. It's a bit strange.
If I ever become a superhero, I decided to name myself Scarf Face. Because my scarf is huge and I look like a mega dork when I wrap it around my head to protect my face. My only power is that I can kill people and all they'd ever see are my pretty eyes.
A perfect, untraceable killer. All thanks to my big, grey scarf.
