I spent about all of my free time in the past 48 hours studying hard, and what happens?
But it’s done now, and I think I did alright. I’m going home now to play Unreal Tournament and then do some coding.
I’m just testing to see if my new update script will add the date to these entries properly.
I already used that for a title two weeks ago, but now I’m listening to the track again and it’s just so appropriate.
Got a big-ass midterm on Wednesday. That’s basicially the only thing on my mind right now. I’ve got a lot of reading to do between now and then. It’s going to be a wild ride. I just gotta do what I gotta do. Which, at this moment, is read through An Introduction to Formal Specification and Z. Exciting.
I got a shock this afternoon when Jordan ICQd me out of the blue and told me that her father died on Friday, from a sudden heart attack. I didn’t really know what to say. I wish I could have attended the funeral (it was today). I haven’t seen her in a long time, I hope she’s okay.
Sad title, but it shouldn’t be. I’ve been doing really well lately, it’s just that I finally saw the full video for that Eminem song and now I’ve got it in my head. It’s a good song, sad but good.
Today did a road trip to Toronto with Sandy. It was nice to be back home. Also kind of strange to be merging together part of my Guelph life with my Toronto life. We had lunch with my friend Calum, where I ruthlessly coaxed Sandy into trying some sushi 🙂 She also gawked at his LEGO collection, insane as it is. And we cruised through Rexdale and talked about drive-bys and lowered Honda Civics and cars with the licence plate “TITO”. And stopped in at Toys R’ Us.
Then we drove downtown to the Eaton Centre for a bit of shopping. Actually we didn’t do that much, but Sandy found a really nice stuffed giraffe on sale and bought it. Me, I bought pen refills, dangerous guy that I am :P. The drive down was more exciting, with Sandy white-knuckled and driving and me trying to remember where to go. We made it, but it was a bit stressful on her.
Next we went to my parents’ place for dinner. I was somewhat worried that Sandy’s head would explode. She was somewhat afraid of my parents before, but I think now that’s mostly gone. We had a good time, Sandy also got to meet my sister and her boyfriend, which was great. She really wasn’t too nervous at all and I’m really proud of her.
And then we came home, went to the soccer game, and won 2-0. Woo!
Yesterday Sandy, Emily, Mark, and I finally saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which I am happy to see has a 9/10 rating on IMDB. Go. Run. See it now. Even if you think you don’t like martial arts movies. It’s not a martial arts movie. It’s magic.
Got midterm on Wednesday. Must read 300 pages of boring specification stuff. Will go sleep now though. It’s been a good day.
Yesterday was a very very long day. I finally got my philosophy essay done. After my night lab, and council meeting. I was very very tired. I just have to do my 320 assignment tonight and then I’ll be free for a little while, until my 320 midterm next week. I think in that I’ll take a little time during that period and work on some of my personal project stuff, like the Ultralite page, or NewtDump, or the Batch Package Installer I started.
I just had a strange revelation: my life seems to be settling down at an alarming rate. Last year I was completely involved in IRC, hacking around with Linux, and generally my social life was just hanging around with the guys. Now I’m living with my girlfriend, don’t see the guys as often, run Win2000 much more often than Linux (to the point where my distro is getting out of date, but I just don’t care), and have gotten heavily involved in all things Newton.
Not that any of this is bad.
A month into the semester, I seem to be doing a pretty good job of keeping my head above the water. Just thought I’d share that.
Well, it’s official. This evening Sandy and I signed the lease for our apartment for next year. It was pretty exciting. The apartment is sort of in the basement of a house (it is technically the basement, but we have a patio door that opens out to the backyard), but it’s very nice (not at all the usual description of a basement apartment). The house is owned by a nice vet student who is just graduating now. Come May (when we move in) it will just be Sandy and I downstairs and the owner and her boyfriend upstairs, which is cool. I can’t wait. I’m so happy that we’re getting our own place.
Went with Sandy for another visit to the homeopath today as well. Thank my lucky stars that I’ve never been so sick that modern medicine couldn’t cure me. The homeopath (actually, I think she’s more of a homeopathic nutritionist) seems to realize that many things are caused not by a disease but by personal habits and nutrition.
Just knocked off my 311 assignment, and going to write my essay outline for my philosophy course tonight as well.
Oh, I’m so glad I opened my Jungle MP3s today.
I got procrastinatin’ and wrote NewtPackageFlags today. It’s a silly little thing, and only interesting if you’re a Newton user.
Imagine my shock when I check Slashdot just now and find Paul Guyot’s Newton ATA driver on the front page. Huge congratulations, Paul.
Everything is fine now between Sandy and I. Things got worked out and we’re both happy again. I think all of this drama ultimately reaffirmed my belief that we can work anything out.